Yearlong 'The Rest is Noise' Festival

[Opus106]

For anyone interested: http://www.good-music-guide.com/community/index.php/topic,7167.0.html

I guess we can use this for the festival. Have you listened to any of the performances? How were they?

[some guy]

Last night we reached the 1940s and 1950s. It's here that things traditionally get sticky.

These are the decades that challenge the First Law of the Avant-Garde, which states that any piece of music considered difficult today will be guaranteed a performance on Classic FM within 50 years

This made me grin.

This is not any sort of law of anyone inside the avant garde. It is a made up thing, made up by people outside the avant garde trying to present it in such a way that everyone gets that it was absurd and illogical.

It's an old ploy. "Look at the stupid thing these people said." Then supply something stupid, but not that anyone ever said. "Weren't those people stupid."

'Course, it's a bit threadbare now, but still worth a grin.

[starrynight]

Sounds like an advert for his book.  And putting the word noise in the title for a music festival probably isn't a good idea.