The Institute of Composing/SouthBank Centre hosted a debate 'the end of literacy' on 13th July. This is Gillian Moore's contribution including:
Relating the contemporary canon to the work of young people -- their ability to grab and use those materials - with ownership, so different from alienated classical music audience -- having no truck with 'free expression' unrelated to windows on the past and other musics -- the high quality of the'informed' London audience -- 19thC new music, Brahms shared in homes through the piano -- Adorno: 'radio and gramophone destroyed live performance'.
The debate was chaired by Peter Wiegold.

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