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RE: Curating Music History: An American in Paris (Gershwin)
Wow, I'm generally not a fan of Philip Glass... But recently I've heard a few things that have made me reconsider...
Jazz is (was) the popular music of the time, I think it was Bernstein that said that Art music needed to draw from the music of culture that it was being performed in, and not from an adopted culture (in this case, European culture, not being completely at home in America).