I just found Zorn mentioned in an interesting article in the German intellectual review MERKUR, August 2002 issue, by Tobias Plebuch, named "Musikhören nach Adorno" (in German). The article provides an extensive comment on musical history, post-modernism, a critique on Adorno from someone who obviously was educated as a believer but now conversed (these are always the worst critics). He is in particual concerning the role of New Music (i.e. serialism and the consequences) today, its original political ambitions and armageddon views, its problems with the listener in general, elitarism, and quality criteria. There's also some Varèse, Cage, Kronos quartet. Interesting (though not new to me since this is already into Musil's aesthetics) is his account of listening as creative act. Who listens has to transform psycho-acoustic pheonomens into a musical imagination, and the latter is exactly what a composer does. The only thing the composer has to do in addition is to somehow get his imaginations out of his mind again, be it in writing it down or in playing it (if he is a jazz musician). Fritz ############################################## Fritz Feger mail@fritzfeger.de www.fritzfeger.de Fon: 0177 - 6424 020 Fax: 0721 - 151 435 058 Rüttenscheider Str. 253 Eulenstraße 56 45131 Essen 22765 Hamburg 0201 - 455 4555 040 - 3980 4766 ##############################################