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MUSIC & VISION NEWSLETTER, JUNE 1999
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20TH CENTURY COMPOSER SURVEYS
'A call to arms' from Editor Basil Ramsey not only proved very popular
but also resulted in some unexpected additional warfare ...
Basil Ramsey: 'We can immediately conduct an exercise amongst ourselves,
the staff and readers of Music & Vision. Focus your thoughts on the
likely candidates, and complete the form below with just three composers
of this century that in your estimation have progressed the art.'
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British composer David Arditti responded with the following:
'I for one am not very interested in taking part in such a vote, particularly
when the editor makes such an unsubtle attempt to bias the result as warning
us to 'Beware of the pitfall of naming composers who have written comfortably
and well in a prevailing style', making it rather clear the type of composer
he wants us to vote for, and which has indeed been reflected in the votes
cast so far. Would not a better and more relevant vote be of those 20th
century 'classical' composers who have given most enjoyment to the largest
number of people through their work?'
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Meanwhile, news of our online surveys spread, someone posted details
to an AOL discussion group, and Music & Vision's technical editor
Keith Bramich spent a busy week trying to fend off various composers voting
for themselves and each other many times to bias the results in their favour!
Exactly which composers 'came top' in either of the surveys is probably
less important than the wide range of names represented! The results are
available on-line via the links to the articles above.
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Each Tuesday, Music & Vision invites you to visit some of our neighbours
on the net, featuring new (or newly discovered) music websites. We feature
the following sites:
Luis Alfonso's Portuguese Classical Music site, Amoris International,
Les Azuriales Opera Festival, Margo Briessinck's website devoted to Winterreise,
The Classical Singer magazine, the European Festival Network, Film Music
on the Web (UK), Grateful Dead's announcement of a new scheme to swap on-line
MP3 recordings legally, Igor Kipnis at Mundo Clasico, information for orchestrators,
Internet Radio stations, the Medieval Music and Arts Foundation, Musica
Russica, New Music journal, OxRecs Digital, Parnassus Records, Piano resources,
the Rawsthorne Trust, Ring Cycle literary sources, Tjako van Schie's CD
competition, Gerard Schurmann, Cheryl Studer, Kathryn Thomas and the Galliard
Ensemble, the T.I.S. Vocal Music Catalogue, Ton Koopman, Tower of Babel's
round table discussion on the future of classical music, Transfer Guy, an
unofficial Mascagni website, Vision Festival, and websites for music organisations
in Minneapolis and St Paul.
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