{"id":890,"date":"2009-06-07T18:19:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-07T18:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/wordpress\/?p=890"},"modified":"2011-03-02T21:21:45","modified_gmt":"2011-03-02T21:21:45","slug":"filler-by-proxy-lxx-apology-accepted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/2009\/06\/filler-by-proxy-lxx-apology-accepted.html","title":{"rendered":"Filler By Proxy LXX: Apology Accepted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kyle Gann has been reading <a href=\"http:\/\/cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/2006\/12\/so-wrong-its-right-morton-feldman.html\">the latest collection<\/a> of Morton Feldman interviews, and discovers that Feldman is a gift to the musical world that keeps on giving. Now, I can listen to Feldman&#8217;s music and opinions for hours on end (in the case of the music, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2003\/10\/19\/arts\/music-tuning-up-feldman-s-string-quartet-no-2-poetic-extremist-his-most-extreme.html\">it&#8217;s kind of mandatory<\/a>), but then Gann quotes the following passage where Feldman compares the composers <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wolpe.org\/page1\/page1.html\">Stefan Wolpe<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/orelfoundation.org\/index.php\/composers\/article\/ernst_krenek\/\">Ernst Krenek<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/postclassic\/2009\/06\/when_morty_met_stefan.html\">Wolpe was in the midst of a musical revolution<\/a> in New York. He was in the midst of the rising young, fabulously talented people coming up in Europe, and he knew it. Krenek never knew it. There&#8217;s not an ounce in Krenek&#8217;s music, in things that I&#8217;ve heard of his late style&#8230; But nothing existed, nothing happened. It&#8217;s music where nothing happened. It&#8217;s the kind of music somebody might write some place in Adelaide, Australia.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Speaking <a href=\"http:\/\/cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/2008\/10\/streetview-adelaide-museum-of-dirt.html\">as a native<\/a> I&#8217;d object to that comparison, except I left Adelaide many years ago and so my criticism might look a teensy bit hollow.  I wonder why Feldman&#8217;s mind alighted on my home town in particular?<\/p>\n<p>Gann comments, &#8220;Fascinating and endearing stuff (apologies, though, to any composers in Adelaide).&#8221; Mr Gann, you have nothing to apologise for.  Mr Feldman, on the other hand&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kyle Gann has been reading the latest collection of Morton Feldman interviews, and discovers that Feldman is a gift to the musical world that keeps on giving. Now, I can listen to Feldman&#8217;s music and opinions for hours on end (in the case of the music, it&#8217;s kind of mandatory), but then Gann quotes the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=890"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4745,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890\/revisions\/4745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}