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By Callimachus | Related entries in Music

Classical music in America isn’t what it used to be.

Yes, it never was.

But I can’t help enjoy a rather dismissive review of a book that itself dismisses two of my favorite modern American composers, Barber (born in my hometown, I used to pass his house every day; he wrote the alma mater of my dad’s high school) and Copland.

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