My post from earlier this week that wondered whether a new generation of composition teachers would be more open to the use of popular music /styles / techniques / sounds in the music of their students than the ‘old guard’ created a ripple of chatter and ‘stirred the pot’ a little. Here’s a little recap of the action for Twitter resisters. First to chime in was Gabriel Kahane. Kahane (I’ll use Kahane since he used Sacawa) used his Tumblr to state his position. I made a funny picture. Then Matt Marks, whose comment on a separate post inspired the ‘pot stirring’ post, made a pretty definitive statement on the ‘issue’ / ‘debate’. Then Dennis had had enough.
Should we make more Charles Wuorinen cat picture memes?
