The Village Voice, May 5th, 2004
American influences advance on the European continent
BERLIN
For the first time, it feels like the reign of postserialist music is over in Europe. Not that there isn't a lot of postserialist music I love. But Boulez's Pli Selon Pli, Stockhausen's Mantra, and Nono's Contrappunto dialettico have come to feel like Brahmsian classics of my youth now, and Europe's reluctance to keep evolving musically has seemed scarily perverse. My first night at the MaerzMusik festival, March 19, in Berlin (where I was invited to tangentially talk on a panel about American music), made me fear more of the same....
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