Volume 45, Number 8 · May 14, 1998
Who's Afraid of the Avant-Garde?
By Charles Rosen
Who's afraid of the avant-garde? Julian Lloyd Webber, for one. A well-known British cellist, he is the brother of the much better known Andrew Lloyd Webber, composer of the successful pop musicals Jesus Christ Superstar and Cats. He gave a speech in February at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, attacking what he called 'the new führers of the classical music establishment.' It received surprisingly generous coverage: a reprint of the speech in The Daily Telegraph in London (February 7), a sensible answer in The New York Times (Sunday, March 22) from Paul Griffiths, and a long interview in the Independent (in London, February 2) with the headline 'STOP THE DICTATORS OF MODERN MUSIC.'
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