{"id":273730,"date":"2007-09-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-07T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newmusicbox.org\/?p=2486"},"modified":"2022-04-14T19:33:59","modified_gmt":"2022-04-14T23:33:59","slug":"the-friday-informer-the-good-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newmusicusa.org\/nmbx\/the-friday-informer-the-good-news\/","title":{"rendered":"The Friday Informer: The Good News"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
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\n Phil Kline is out in Champaign, Illinois, for the premiere of his World on a String<\/i><\/a> sound installation, and he sends in this cellphone flick from the soundcheck. It’s “made of 360 one-minute sound files, all produced by me and a Fender Stratocaster. The files are loaded into a gigantic computerized carousel, iTunes-style, and played in the vast Krannert Center lobby (about the size of a football field).”<\/p>\n

But the real news: Not a boombox in sight. <\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Wow, a whole week and only good news<\/a> and heartwarming tales<\/a> about classical music in the paper? And wait, we might also be much cooler<\/a> than we thought? To what might we attribute this turn? (Despite what the Gray Lady is selling, I don’t think Rick Rubin<\/a> is the answer.) Maybe it’s because we’ve found a way to reach people with only limited attention spans<\/a>? (Though I don’t think we’ve really converted those people at FOX News<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

Wait, I know! Maybe it has to do with the industry’s focus shift to the pretty young things<\/a>. Seriously, you have to feel for that legion of 50-year-old conductors who have been patiently waiting for their turn at the helm of one of the nations great ensembles. (Maybe they should try Venezuela<\/a>?) Of course, none of the lot will ever be as good as the dead guys<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Pavarotti has passed<\/a>; wonder if it was the new opera about voluntary amputation<\/a> or the one about penis pumps<\/a> that did it.<\/p>\n

For those who would rather stay home, you could play the “Six Degrees of John Zorn<\/a>” game or read up on your pianist gossip<\/a>. The pianists themselves, however, are up to something a bit more refined\u2014new music and poetry: Amy<\/a> is writing it, Jeremy<\/a> is analyzing it. Or you could always do something constructive<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I’ll be catching up on this gentleman’s videos<\/a>. “You know how it is; sometimes you like something and everybody else doesn’t.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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