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Guest · Posted: Fri Nov 07, 2008 12:59 pm Post subject: from today's independent

This from today's Independent by Philip Hensher:
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You like it? Is nothing sacred?

The German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen, who died last year, has
seen a remarkable upturn in popularity since then. Whole days at the
Proms and weekends at the South Bank have received some very healthy
box office. Those of us who for years have been accustomed to stretch
out into the unoccupied neighbouring seats in the stalls at anything
with the faintest tinge of Darmstadt have, recently, been startled at
the crowds at Messiaen, Nono, Boulez, and even that hardest of tough
nuts, Barraqué.

Years ago, we used to assure the legions of sceptics that this was
music that was going to take time to find an audience, but in the end,
people would start to like it. Perhaps not everyone, but enthusiasm
would come from a substantial segment of the audience. Now it seems to
have happened, I'm not sure whether I quite approve of it: I'd grown
rather accustomed to thinking of Stockhausen's Kontakte, say, as my
own private pleasure.


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