<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post112213751019300887..comments</id><updated>2011-07-13T16:13:18.645-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Comments on Silliman&#39;s Blog: </title><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/feeds/comments/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112213751019300887/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/07/views-buy-book-here.html'/><link rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/"/><author><name>Unknown</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>6</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112278787989642095</id><published>2005-07-31T01:31:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-07-31T01:31:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Yeah, good points. I haven&#39;t heard Tan Dun&#39;s early...</title><summary type='text'>Yeah, good points. I haven&#39;t heard Tan Dun&#39;s early stuff. I also don&#39;t think the stuff I have heard is &quot;kitsch&quot; per se (though if it were, it might be &quot;Westernist kitsch&quot; instead). On the topic of the Ferneyhough flute piece: I&#39;ve been thinking about exactly what you said since the New York concert. At the time, the three people I was with all agreed that it seemed very episodic (and were </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112213751019300887/comments/default/112278787989642095'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112213751019300887/comments/default/112278787989642095'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/07/views-buy-book-here.html?showComment=1122787860000#c112278787989642095' title=''/><author><name>andy gricevich</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/00797822725132844348</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/07/views-buy-book-here.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112213751019300887' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/112213751019300887' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1436621432"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="July 31, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112255617754328464</id><published>2005-07-28T09:09:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-07-28T09:09:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I don&#39;t think Tan Dun draws uncritically on tradit...</title><summary type='text'>I don&#39;t think Tan Dun draws uncritically on tradition (though please note that in general, I enjoy Ferneyhough more than Tan Dun). Tan Dun has written some reasonably OK filmmusic and stuff like that, but he has done some more interesting things as well, earlier generally. I think it&#39;s too easy to mistake the new Chinese music as orientalist kitsch - first of all because kitsch is not a Chinese </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112213751019300887/comments/default/112255617754328464'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112213751019300887/comments/default/112255617754328464'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/07/views-buy-book-here.html?showComment=1122556140000#c112255617754328464' title=''/><author><name>Samuel Vriezen</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/16229066450439148225</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/07/views-buy-book-here.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112213751019300887' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/112213751019300887' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1125742735"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="July 28, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112253878803690548</id><published>2005-07-28T04:19:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-07-28T04:19:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I saw &quot;Shadowtime&quot; twice, which is what it took to...</title><summary type='text'>I saw &quot;Shadowtime&quot; twice, which is what it took to penetrate the rich density of the music and the text. As a longtime Ferneyhough fan and a longer-time Bernstein fan, I was delighted. And I have to disagree with some of the comments above. I feel that the opera became the perfect home for some of Bernstein&#39;s recent poetic techniques that I&#39;d found less compelling on the page than his earlier </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112213751019300887/comments/default/112253878803690548'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112213751019300887/comments/default/112253878803690548'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/07/views-buy-book-here.html?showComment=1122538740000#c112253878803690548' title=''/><author><name>andy gricevich</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/00797822725132844348</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/07/views-buy-book-here.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112213751019300887' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/112213751019300887' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1436621432"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="July 28, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112231474848692886</id><published>2005-07-25T14:05:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-07-25T14:05:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>A lot of composers today would indeed consider Fer...</title><summary type='text'>A lot of composers today would indeed consider Ferneyhough conservative. Ferneyhough really is furthering a Schoenbergian programme of melodic expressiveness and complex form between wild improvisation and power architecture, whereas a lot of progressive music of the later 20th, early 21st century seems to have preferred to follow Stravinsky or Varese or Cage or Feldman, or indeed chinese music. </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112213751019300887/comments/default/112231474848692886'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112213751019300887/comments/default/112231474848692886'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/07/views-buy-book-here.html?showComment=1122314700000#c112231474848692886' title=''/><author><name>Samuel Vriezen</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/16229066450439148225</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/07/views-buy-book-here.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112213751019300887' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/112213751019300887' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1125742735"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="July 25, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112230703808304368</id><published>2005-07-25T11:57:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-07-25T11:57:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Hi.  I saw Shadowtime on Friday at Lincoln Center....</title><summary type='text'>Hi.  I saw Shadowtime on Friday at Lincoln Center.  I thought the words were einteresting.  Some were incomprehensible.  I went partly to see and hear what language poetry opera would look and sound like.  Are there any language poetry plays?  I enjoy this poetry and have taught it in my workshop but it does not seem inherently given to drama.  I was pleasantly surprised by Shadowtime. It held my</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112213751019300887/comments/default/112230703808304368'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112213751019300887/comments/default/112230703808304368'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/07/views-buy-book-here.html?showComment=1122307020000#c112230703808304368' title=''/><author><name>Tom Savage</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/12048902138994045366</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/07/views-buy-book-here.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112213751019300887' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/112213751019300887' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-2140484512"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="July 25, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112228395776898585</id><published>2005-07-25T05:32:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-07-25T05:32:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>It doesn&#39;t look like this show will be transferrin...</title><summary type='text'>It doesn&#39;t look like this show will be transferring to Broadway then?&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I met Charles a few hours after he stepped off the plane in Dublin the other week. He was doing a spot at the Writers Centre, but unfortunately because it was at short notice, only a few people had turned out, at least two of whom were Linquistically Innovative poets representing the Irish avant garde. Maurice Scully </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112213751019300887/comments/default/112228395776898585'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112213751019300887/comments/default/112228395776898585'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/07/views-buy-book-here.html?showComment=1122283920000#c112228395776898585' title=''/><author><name>Scalljah</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/14578109925453070447</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/07/views-buy-book-here.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112213751019300887' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/112213751019300887' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1613744976"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="July 25, 2005"/></entry></feed>