[Smt-talk] Starting Points

[Chris Bonds]

On 2/24/2013 6:11 AM, Michael Morse wrote:
> The Copland is justly celebrated. Roger Sessions' /The Musical 
> Experience of Composer, Performer, and Listener/ is also great, a 
> little more demanding (and less condescending in that sense) than the 
> Copland.
>
> Frankly, I find the Levitin distasteful There's far too much bragging 
> of his exploits in music, and far too much undeservedly confident 
> positivist hooey. Oliver Sacks is way better on the humility scale, 
> for sure.

The mid-20th century seems to have been a high-water mark for people 
writing real books about real stuff. Or maybe I'm just getting old! 
(That's a fact!)

Christopher Bonds
Wayne State College, Emeritus
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