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    Steven Stucky LISTENING TO CONTEMPORARY MUSIC “ust for fun, 1 once counted up the number of 20th-century works in the subscription programs of one of our major American symphony orchestras for one season, The results may surprise you. 40 percent ofthe pieces played that season were ‘written in the 20th century. That—at least from my point of view—is good news. But ‘now consider that only a quarter of these 20th-century works—not 40 percent of the season, only 10 percent—were by composers who are stll alive. It seems clear that the phrase ~20th-century music.” which used to be synonymous with “avant-garde stuff ‘nobody likes”, has now caught up with us. The 20th century now stretches back so far ‘that much of its music has come to seem familiar, comfortable, and safe. Thus the 40 percent of its Season which our unnamed symphony orchestra devoted to this century umed out to comprise mostly the tried and true: Mahler, Strauss, Sibelius. Copla Prokofiev, Bartok. Rachmaninov, Shostakovich. ill, the 10 percent of the Season occupied by really new music undoubtedly remained astumbling-block for many concertgoers. AS a composer, lam often asked two sorts of questions by members of the audience. Oneis both practical and aesthetic: it goes something like “I don't know how to listen to this kind of music. Can you help?” in the Polite version (or. in the less polite version, “Do you really expect me to listen to this garbage?"). The other sort of questions, if you like, sociological: “Who is the audience for your music? Whom are you addressing?” Let me try to answer the second question first In fact I was asked this question by phone just last week by a writer for the Tallahassee Democrat. Wt seems an obvious, honest, straightforward question, ‘Assuming that a composer (or a painter, or a playwright, or a sculptor. of a novelist)

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