User talk:Antipostmodernism

Article on Stefan Wolpe
I have learned that you have removed my name as a student of Stefan Wolpe. Wikipedia info has told me that this is because I do not have a separate article about me on Wikipedia. This is by choice; I'm not inclined to write articles about myself like other composers mentioned in the Wolpe article. Nor have I asked anybody else to do it. I'm not being haughty, just not interested in that kind of self-promotion. As Garry Trudeau said, "America: the only country in the world where failing to promote yourself is regarded as being arrogant."

Stefan would be not be amused by your eliminating my name from an article about him. Ironically, he once told me to "Drop the word career from your vocabulary!". I have no doubt followed that advice too diligently in this age of self-promotion, pompous bragging, composers writing self-encomiums and putting them on their CDs as if somebody else wrote those praises, and so on.

This doesn't mean I am a talent-less idiot. I will send you only two things that have been written about me and my music. Maybe that will be enough to convince you to put my name back in the Stefan Wolpe article you edit as a student of Wolpe.

"It is my explicit pleasure to arouse attention to an extremely gifted musician named Roger Király. It has been my privilege to have worked with him for some time now in matters of musical composition and musical concepts.  There I have encountered an extraordinary creative intelligence mixed with a disciplined passion and profound musical vision.  People like Roger are rare and do not permit trivial conclusions.  His intellectual nature and attitudes will always force him into radical positions and he will always seek the center of things.  He is a very graceful and sensitive person, erudite and searching, concentrated and argumentative as well.  Roger’s chamber work Music for Six Players [for alto flute, bass clarinet, trombone, viola, ‘cello, and acoustic guitar] gives one a clear idea of his strengths and creative gifts.  This highly organized and complex piece promises a great drama; the music is characterized by dark fire. Roger is rapidly learning how to integrate and master the many dimensions of a music that will carry the maturing powers of a music which is all his own. I consider him to be a very gifted, brilliant fellow and I have no doubts about him." Stefan Wolpe, composer, New York.

"I am not personally acquainted with Roger Király, but I have had the opportunity to examine some of his music, and I consider that acquaintance enough. Almost every day, in my line of work, I see contemporary scores, published and unpublished, from many different countries, by composers of great and small reputation; but very few have impressed me as deeply as his works have.  They strike me as the work of a first-rate musician, erudite in the best sense, deeply concerned with tradition and with its meaningful development at the present time.  They display consummate craftsmanship and a serious, passionate and original mind.  None of these qualities are so common that they can lightly be overlooked." Malcolm MacDonald, Managing Editor of the Review of Modern Music TEMPO, London, and author of Schoenberg in The Master Musicians series published by Oxford University Press.

Antipostmodernism (talk) 14:11, 25 August 2016 (UTC)