Talk:ONCE Group

This is a noble and appreciated article on an important series of events for new music. It deserves a good proofread and further cleanup, I just dusted a few things that caught my eye and I didn't get all the way through.

There is an ambiguous statement that needs attention from the original contributor: "Frustrated by the inaccessibility of contemporary composers and compositions at Stratford..." 'Inaccessibility' is a somewhat loaded term when discussing contemporary music. Were the young composers frustrated because they couldn't approach (access) the festival's featured composers for discourse? or because they couldn't relate to (access) the music they heard? or because the festival programming was not open to (accessible by) truly modern composers and their music?

-justcary

I'm not directly involved with this article at the moment, but I was talking with Roger Reynolds about the ONCE festivals recently, and he mentioned this Stratford UNESCO Festival event in question. It wasn't "inaccessibility" in the sense that the music was difficult and avant-garde (etc...), but rather that when they (the proto-ONCE group composers) visited the Stratford festival, the featured composers at that festival could not be approached by outsiders due to the management. They were physically inaccessible - the visiting folks from Ann Arbor weren't allowed to talk to the elder visiting composers at Stratford...

But I agree that "inaccessible" should be removed, because of the associations with reception. It is confusing in the context of "new music" related article...

-Phembree