February 2015: Matthew Lorenzon's qualms about "Rosenberg 3.0 Not Violin Music"
...and the initial response to his review on his blog
In February 2015, this was the hand I was dealt…
…as my journeys through the world since 1996 had left me bereft of the avant-garde and experimental new music worlds that had so filled me from my first visit to New Music America Hartford in 1984 to my last stop on the concert stage with René Lussier in Montréal in 1996.
I had received Jon Rose’s Rosenberg 3.0 Not Violin Music (2014) and noted that there was a section devoted to musicologists speculating about what music of the future would be like… and that I had not understood Jon’s invitation to me six months prior that would have included me in that bunch.
But he got in contact with me again via email to suggest that maybe I should join the people who had generated a certain amount of buzz …