A Rose by Any Other Name

michaelkarman — Mon, 01 Jan 2007 14:12:28 +0000

Asymmetry Music Magazine announces that it will be covering the classical music of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. I know from the reactions of colleagues and from reading some on-line conversations about music, that calling the musics I intend to feature in this magazine by the word “classical” is going to puzzle some and annoy even more. So I thought a word about my choice might be in order in this premiere issue.(...)
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What to Expect

michaelkarman — Mon, 01 Jan 2007 14:04:55 +0000

For this premiere issue, it may be prudent to say a few words about how Asymmetry Music Magazine started, and why, and what you can expect from it. Back in 1972, I first heard Bartók’s Concerto for Orchestra. Although I had heard a lot of twentieth century music before that, and liked it, I had never thought of the twentieth century as a thing, with its own qualities, different from the 19^th or the 18^th. Now I realized that Janáček’s Taras Bulba and Stravinsky’s Petroushka and Prokofiev’s fifth symphony, all favorites of mine before ’72, were Twentieth Century Music, too. You know how it works: “if you liked Concerto for Orchestra, you might like Poème électronique and Wild Women With Steak-Knives (The Homicidal Love Song For Solo Scream).” And, in time, I did. (...)
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A Rose by Any Other Name

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