On Jan 29, 2006, at 4:17 PM, David W. Fenton wrote:
On 29 Jan 2006 at 12:46, Andrew Stiller wrote:
On Jan 28, 2006, at 2:51 PM, Noel Stoutenburg wrote:
There is in the U.S. a dogmatic divide between "contemporary" and
"classical" music that just does not exist in Europe.
I reiterate (for the third time now in this thread, so far w.o
rejoinder) that this is no longer the case in Philadelphia.
Is it not the case that San Francisco and LA also have orchestras
with conductors who quite frequently program recent music?
And Montreal, Winnipeg, Ottawa, and now Vancouver, who has inherited
the utterly fantastic Bramwell Tovey as conductor.
Plus here in Montreal we have La NEM (Nouvel Ensemble Moderne) and La
Société de Musique Contemporaine du Québec, who specialise in new music
and several excellent chamber groups that program modern works to great
acclaim (if you discount the local English language critic who
dismisses anything written before about 1920 as garbage.)
I have no certain knowledge of other Canadian orchestras (other than
the five-concert-per-year Sherbrooke Symphony that I play with, which
does OK for a small orchestra, too) but it wouldn't surprise me to
discover that they, too, have a living composer mandate.
Christopher
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