Prodigy …

… Music to our ears by Heather Mac Donald | The New Criterion. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

The typical new orchestral work today from the legions of academic composers turning out the latest manifestation of spectralism or integral serialism is performed once and then shelved forevermore, to almost no one’s regret but the composer’s. Nevertheless the critics insist that the only way to rebuild the classical music audience is through more such “one-and-done” commissions, whether the audience wants them or not. The diminutive Deutscher is a threat to that consensus regarding atonal music and so must not be recognized.