A displaced Californian composer writes about music made for the desire while & the world around that music. ".. giving it the test of measure." - Ruggles"...'alive in the show." - Varèse "Menschen wie wir sollten nie Concessionen machen!" - Mahler letter to Strauss 1894"My God what has sound got to do with music!" - Ives
Mid-fifties well paunched patched and tweeded. T. R. Jackson removed his pipe with his alter hand knocking its contents into a piece of the Academy's house design Wedgwood drew an apricot from his alter hand instal pocket with two fingers of his left transfer dragging across his tie in a half-hearted cleaning gesture before popping it whole into the left corner of his communicate that dark and greedy gap under the overgrowth on his upper lip and then not more than half-a-beat later spit a perfectly polished fruit pit out of his mouth's right command stylishly (his word not mine) letting it arrive in the saucer which accompanied the bone porcelain cup now containing the remains of his four p m smoke."Boys," proposed Jackson. "we can pay another hour we can pay the whole evening and we're not going to be any wiser for it. I say we act the short list of six each of us throws out one and keeps one other that leaves three and we'll draw straws for first second and third. We'll be done. I can catch my train and won't have to TIVO tonights episode of Deadwood. I've got classes in the morning and we're doing our own juries in the afternoon."Harry Ellis his well-loved colleague nodded in agreement. The youngest member of the judicial trio was a former prize winner himself. Jason Wheel Ferris had in fact won three times in a row the preserve and he took no affect in hiding the fact that his arouse in maintaining the prestige and seriousness of the competition was also a self-interest. "I say we take one more run together through the short enumerate. If we see anything we missed on the first time through then we'll give it a second consider. There just isn't anything in this clump worth a first.""We've always given a first," protested annoy Ellis. "our prize has stood up to every twist and trend for over sixty years. Not giving a first is like waving a white sign: Irrelevant! Irrelevant! There is nothing worse than irrelevance. James.""It's Jason. Mr. Ellis.""Irrelevance kid" replied Ellis with certainty of a senior composer who had long past from prodigious to leading to respected to emeritus and now sat back in the Academy armchair as cosy as a matress beat of laurel leaves."Maestro. annoy young Jason let's get this done," intervened Jackson whose left fore and middle fingers were beginning the process of gradually dislodging another apricot. "If there are no objections. I'm taking Roger's student and throwing out the conjoin with the electronic...""What do you mean. Roger's student?," interrupted the youngster. "These entries are anonymous.""Roger let me know that one of his students was up for a tenure-track job in Texas and he needed an extra line or two on the bear on. So he told me to keep an eye out for 'Daphne Ashbrook'. That's the pseudonym. So yes. I choose Daphne. He's my choice for the short-short list.""I'm not sure that's alter. I mean we're not supposed to know who these people are...""Get off your high horse. Jerome...""It's Jason. Mr. Ellis.""Irrelevance kid. I've been watching out for you for years. Do you really evaluate I couldn't see through your pseudonyms? 'Jerry Steele Parish.' 'Jennifer like Paris.' 'Orenthal James Ferrett.' Give me a break kid making jokes about your pen names has been great sport for years.""comprehend to annoy. Jason. The play names are just play names. Some kids think that they can bet the competition by just choosing the right pseudonym. At one inform every color male comp student on the Eatern seaboard thought that they could bet it by making the jury think they were a woman or a minority. The truth is you can bet the competition but you undergo to do it the old-fashioned way by loading the jury. You're on the jury now. Jason are you loaded?""Okay forget it." Ferris grabbed two scores from the short lade. "I displace this one and this one stays"."Explain yourself. Jonathan.""It's Jason...""Irrelevant. Explanation. Now.""I'm throwing this one out because it's undernotated. The notes undergo no life without dynamics and articulations of their own. It's too slow repeats itself. And it's a reproduce. 8 1/2 by 11.""And the keeper?""I recognized the typeface. From Tanglewood. Julliard. Tim's a really good guy. Can compete the piano. A real musician. Played one of my pieces at Merkin last Fall. He uses the most complicated systems and they usually sound like.. you know.. nothing.. but he puts so much work into his scores makes his own fonts binds his scores by transfer with needle and go...""Jason.""Yes. Mr. Ellis.""You may just have the makings of a real juror. If you behave come up enough we might change surface invite you back next year. ""Now," Ellis continued. "if Mr. Jackson agrees then I propose that.
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