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Poéme Symphonique for 100 metronomes by Gyorgi Ligeti performed at the newEar concert in Kansas City on 5/2/2009.

UK journalist David Stubbs has a new book out from Zero Books, Fear of Music: Why People Get Rothko But Don’t Get Stockhausen exploring the reasons why visual art has gained much more prominence and acceptance than its equivalents in music. This is a conversation that comes up commonly amongst friends and scholars. Every time I walk through one of the many grand and well-funded modern art museums causes me to also wonder just how music got it wrong.

I am not positive that using Stockhausen and Rothko as direct comparisons is the most promising starting place, but I am looking forward to his ideas on this often lamented issue.