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Article: New music: Cambridge New Music Players Clerkenwell London Sinfonietta RFH2, London
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- November 22, 1995
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"Old 'new music' is dead!" It may not quite have the ring of
"Schoenberg is dead", but Priti Paintal, former scourge of the Arts
Council's Music Panel, was trying to make the point that there is
new new music that people like to listen to (to her ears,
improvised, probably ethnic) and old new music (sterile, clinical,
modernist) that people hate, but still listen to. Curiously,
massive public subsidies are thrown towards the hated kind, while
the gentle improvisers are left out in the cold.
As part of a "let's look at how we treat new music" powwow
organised by the Arts Council recently, this was stirring stuff.
But two concerts of "old" new music last week showed how much
muddier the ...