Classical music is generally a polite environment, free of trash talk and slams (at least when Satie stays out of it). That doesn't mean that the scene isn't entirely insultless, such as today's case. I'm a member of a Facebook group called Composers for Performers, Performers for Composers, and just today a one Dillon Henry (whose name is the reverse of the usual) decided he was fed up with Bill Smith, a fellow CFPPFC composer whose work tends towards the New Complexity end of things. Unamused, Henry posted the following just today:
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John Stump has been influential after all. Scored for sopranino tuba, an instrument you readers might recognize as about as extant as the contralto triangle, When once confined in a heuristic demolition of neo-Napoleonic platitudinal radii pulls no punches in its quest for pure musical horsehockey. Not confined by barlines, staves or sense, Henry shotguns the score with impossible extended techniques, Greek constellations and at least one Frasier reference. One of the best details is a noteless repeated section with the instruction "Just fucking throw 'Dies Irae' in there a few times for good measure." Another repeated section says to "Dauntily consume a hard-boiled egg." I could go on for hours but that's the opposite of fun and, as everyone knows, fun rules. Also, have that hard-boiled egg.
~PNK
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