U-turn
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January 27, 2005
Adorno's ghost
In my thinking about what happened to European music it is clear WOII is a turning point. Before the war music was something to be enjoyed. Afterwards it became something to be dreaded.
This in-depth article by Alex Ross in the New Yorker explains a lot, at least to me. It sheds some light to the reason why someone like Jacob ter Veldhuis (as he told me over the phone today) got 'beaten down' by music critics after a radio special in Germany and why they kling on to the path of übermusic.
I wonder why they cherish the paradox of this development to übermusic: it actually is in line with Nazis eugenetic theories, instead of viably answering it.
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