At 12:33 -0700 5/25/07, Mariposa Symphony Orchestra wrote:
I can honestly say (through dedicated outreach I expend much time on, through pre-concert chats, etc) that my audience has grown vastly in its comprehension of new works. ... I have been rewarded for these efforts by a far-more open-minded audience than one should expect in this mountainous, rural geographic area.
les, thanks. good point. from birth we are inundated with tonal and quasi-tonal music, are really immersed in it, we continue to be completely surrounded by it throughout our entire waking day. of course noone recognises the effort it took to be able to appreciate and "understand" (simplification for the sake of the point) tonal music, since it happened over such an extended period of time.
i agree with your point about developing the audience; i would add that there are also many cases of people simply liking new music, with no training or "understanding" of it. a visual art analogy: i saw a docu on the MOMA where they interviewed people giong into and coming out of the museum and asked them in really basic terms what they liked about modern art, why they went there. admittedly any documentary is biased, but some of the reactions were quite interesting. there were average joes who felt that modern art didn't "impose" so many rules on their appreciation of art as traditional art did. i thought that was far more radical an idea -- considering the context and subject -- than much of the new music works that were being performed at my university.
and the bottom line is:
It just takes open ears, open minds.
cheers, jef -- shirling & neueweise ... new music publishers mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] :.../ http://newmusicnotation.com _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
