A great article from last week's issue of The New Yorker entitled, Club Acts: New York's Vital New Music Scene, talks about the diversity of "serious" music filling up New York's concert venues, from the Lower East Side to Lincoln Center. The piece gives the obligatory tip of the trucker cap to John Zorn, who has been entertaining hipsters with noise, dissonance, non-Western scales and duck calls for over 20 years. Correctly, it traces the whole topic of "genre ambiguity" back to George Gershwin, and the promise - and limitations - of "a total synthesis of pop and classical traditions".
Worth a read...let me know what you think.
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