Asymmetry Music Magazine - Articles
What to Expect
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 19th or the 18th. 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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