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February 28, 2005
Soaring itch and the broken taboo
The glider season is about to start next week so all last minute preparations are being made to get underway. Therefore I had to attend the annual meeting for winch operators at the Dutch National Soaring center Terlet.
On the way back in the car I just heard the last bit of some extremely yucky music, but exceptionally well performed. I should have guessed of course that it was Ensemble InterContemporain with Domaines by Pierre Boulez, live from the Amsterdam Concertgebouw.
After the applause a forum discussion was aired with intellectual hotshots ehmming their way through the discussion. If the music contained drama?... Long intellectual blah. If the music was exciting?... Long intellectual blah. And all of a sudden Ton Hartsuiker said (to my relieve) without the slightest air of intellectualism: "This music is passé."
The other forum members muttered on for a while and one even got as close as trying to admit this music "might perhaps be a little bit passé".
A big hooray for Mr. Hartsuiker who broke a taboo.
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