http://thethirdestate.net/2009/05/the-missing-link/ What Is The Third Estate? Everything. What Has It Been Until Now In The Political Order? Nothing. What Does It Want To Be? Something. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 20:19:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 http://thethirdestate.net/2009/05/the-missing-link/comment-page-1/#comment-721 David Grundy Tue, 26 May 2009 11:25:46 +0000 http://thethirdestate.net/?p=641#comment-721 given that the prom's 'culmination' (the last night) is a piece of exaggerated and embarassing jingoistic back-slapping, it's hardly a surprise that the season as a whole doesn't find much of a space for new music beyond that which is mystically-inflected (macmillan, messiaen, etc) or 'safe'. think back to when a piece of rather accessible, raucous, jazz-tinged birtwistle ('panic') caused such a furore (or the kind of ridiculous reactions that 'the minotaur' got on newsnight review - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7j8IqHo_EUA). given that the proms has upped the tv coverage and 'multi-media interactivity' quotient in recent years, they'll hardly want to be 'alienating' people with music that gets such uniformly uninformed reactions on their own network, the bbc. so the new music tends to get pushed into the evening prom slots, the outer limits and so on, rendering it less accessible to those who have to travel up to london for the concerts and ensuring a much smaller audience. given that the prom’s ‘culmination’ (the last night) is a piece of exaggerated and embarassing jingoistic back-slapping, it’s hardly a surprise that the season as a whole doesn’t find much of a space for new music beyond that which is mystically-inflected (macmillan, messiaen, etc) or ‘safe’. think back to when a piece of rather accessible, raucous, jazz-tinged birtwistle (‘panic’) caused such a furore (or the kind of ridiculous reactions that ‘the minotaur’ got on newsnight review – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7j8IqHo_EUA). given that the proms has upped the tv coverage and ‘multi-media interactivity’ quotient in recent years, they’ll hardly want to be ‘alienating’ people with music that gets such uniformly uninformed reactions on their own network, the bbc. so the new music tends to get pushed into the evening prom slots, the outer limits and so on, rendering it less accessible to those who have to travel up to london for the concerts and ensuring a much smaller audience.

]]> http://thethirdestate.net/2009/05/the-missing-link/comment-page-1/#comment-714 Sam W Sun, 24 May 2009 21:04:06 +0000 http://thethirdestate.net/?p=641#comment-714 Especially true that there must be an active engagement beyond, like you say, an 'an empty acknowledgment that new art happens to be in production'. Well put. Especially true that there must be an active engagement beyond, like you say, an ‘an empty acknowledgment that new art happens to be in production’. Well put.

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