Well, I skip a lot of 'new music' gigs because I'm somewhat tired of the scene and avoiding Jake. Plus I'm very selfish, and mostly focus on my own music. I have qualms about reviewing classical music as well: ethical, from the standpoint of I'm a composer of note and occasionally compete for funding, plus I wonder if I'm implicitly endorsing the elitist message of the colonisers by giving positive reviews of obscure, esoteric music. I realise nobody really cares about my gig reviews but me, but I'm building a body of work. Now that I've dipped my toe into the real world of pro writing and journalism, I think more people are aware of me as a writer, and this is my area of expertise (along with the drugs 🤣). - There's a gig on tonight, but I'm not sure I'll make it: Lucinda's got work, and I'm wallowing in my depressed vibes + hoping to read through the back half of Sultry. I've got a guitar player's skype chat tomorrow, and hoping to impress those people.
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I don't think the war is over yet, re: me and the classical establishment.
As Rawiri pointed out: it's just a 2-year solution for Te Matatini, and I might add that I'm pretty sure they've just cut the guitar program at NZSM (Classical Performance as a whole was cut according to the report I read), so the battle to make guitar a 'respectable' instrument continues. I'm tinkering with the order of my dawn concert: 1. Sultry
2. Melancholia 3. Lullaby 4. Dawn 5. Over The Rainbow (arr. Takemitsu)/I. from Four Intermezzi (M. Calvert).