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Article: MUSIC
- Article from:
- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- June 8, 1994
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The innate conservatism of New York's concert-going public can
never be underestimated. European notions of Manhattan's musical
hotbed of innovation are based on a misunderstanding; the New York
represented on the Continent is exactly that funky, tonally and
aesthetically democratic city which the concert halls of "Skinny
Island" reject, yet we think of as inherently American. New Yorkers
only want to hear Romantic European standards, a strictly enforced
pre-1900 repertoire, while the rest of the world perceives Gotham
as a groovy riot precisely because the composers who could never
get a residency back home have to travel abroad.
Thus the New York Philharmonic mounting a season of "Modern" ...