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PRELUDES AND CANONS

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 June 2021

Howard Skempton
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A recent exchange of emails with the composer Christopher Fox touched on Morton Feldman. Christopher commented, ‘My “problem” with Feldman, and it is just mine and not a problem, is that he was not an innovator; but has there ever been a conservative composer who took more risks?’. This led me to consider the value of innovation, the need for risk and the nature of the risks we take.

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Tempo , Volume 75 , Issue 297 , July 2021 , pp. 71 - 77
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press

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