&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;It was composer pitted against composer: uptown vs. downtown, tonal vs. atonal, left brain vs right brain, and these musicians were NOT pulling any punches. Composers were antagonizing each other, questioning each other's validity, and bad-mouthing one another; it was like the second half of the 20th century was when Western Music went through middle school, and it was brutal! &lt;br&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;“If you weren't being a constructivist composer, if the music wasn't indeed about its own structure, and its own structure wasn't complicated, then you were a pariah, you were rejected. You didn’t get tenure. You didn’t get a job.” That’s Robert Sirota - Nadia’s Dad - one of many composers who came of age in the midst of this feud and struggled - for years - to find a voice.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;On this episode of Meet the Composer, we unravel one of the most contentious periods in classical music’s history. How did this fight begin? How did it play out? Who were the contenders?  We hear from composers on both sides of this battle, and discover how, on all ends of the aesthetic spectrum, we can find value in differences.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;0:00—The Yorks: &lt;em&gt;Love Without Reason, &lt;/em&gt;written by Barry Flicker&lt;br&gt;2:14—Robert Sirota: &lt;em&gt;Pange Lingua Sonata&lt;/em&gt; | &lt;a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00R4PFC4S/ref=dm_ws_sp_ps_dp"&gt;Buy&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;3:30—Robert Sirota: &lt;em&gt;Pange Lingua Sonata&lt;/em&gt; | &lt;a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00R4PFC4S/ref=dm_ws_sp_ps_dp"&gt;Buy&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;5:23—Philip Glass: &lt;em&gt;Music in Twelve Parts&lt;/em&gt; | &lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7fcHnR7UF0"&gt;Listen&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;6:31—Ruth Crawford Seeger: &lt;em&gt;Study in Mixed Accents&lt;/em&gt; | &lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tscwjbOs4gU"&gt;Listen&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;7:08—David Lang: &lt;em&gt;orpheus over and under&lt;/em&gt; | &lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqTssoSCWVo"&gt;Listen&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;8:53—Richard Wagner: Overture from &lt;em&gt;Tristan und Isolde&lt;/em&gt; | &lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuPDMhyGKB8"&gt;Listen&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;9:36—Julia Ward Howe: &lt;em&gt;Battle Hymn of the Republic&lt;/em&gt; | &lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ai3_pTg560U"&gt;Watch&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;11:27—Arnold Schoenberg: Klavierstüke, Op. 33 | &lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Z2qIBX_Pxk"&gt;Listen&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;12:04—Pierre Boulez: Piano Sonata No. 2 | &lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LlsO28dCCk"&gt;Listen&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;br&gt;13:05—Pierre Boulez: &lt;em&gt;Sur Incises&lt;/em&gt; | &lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qj2PU37rlW4"&gt;Listen&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;13:47—Lewis Nielsen: &lt;em&gt;Oerknal! "...the crisis of conscience..."&lt;/em&gt; | &lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2z627Ri9TuM"&gt;Listen&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;14:50—Charles Wuorinen: &lt;em&gt;Two Part Symphony&lt;/em&gt; | &lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOdGACCDaZo"&gt;Listen&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;15:57—David Lang:&lt;em&gt; the so-called laws of nature: part III&lt;/em&gt; | &lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaDg1x7ovPs"&gt;Listen&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;17:59—Jr. Walker and the All-Stars: &lt;em&gt;Shotgun&lt;/em&gt; | &lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMs9NudasVI"&gt;Listen&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;18:47—Bob Dylan: &lt;em&gt;Maggie's Farm&lt;/em&gt; | &lt;a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/bringing-it-all-back-home/id177964575"&gt;Buy&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;19:09—Elliott Carter: &lt;em&gt;String Quartet No. 2&lt;/em&gt; | &lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjXB2hAOzRk"&gt;Listen&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;19:45—Steve Reich: &lt;em&gt;Violin Phase&lt;/em&gt; | &lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i36Qhn7NhoA"&gt;Listen&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;21:05—Elliott Carter: &lt;em&gt;String Quartet No. 2&lt;/em&gt; | &lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjXB2hAOzRk"&gt;Listen&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;21:16—Charles Wuorinen: &lt;em&gt;Second Piano Quintet&lt;/em&gt; | &lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcNs2ccoDgc"&gt;Listen&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;22:10—John Adams: &lt;em&gt;Phrygian Gates&lt;/em&gt; | &lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7r8XV1bylY"&gt;Listen&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;23:31—John Adams: &lt;em&gt;Death of Klinghoffer&lt;/em&gt; | &lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RAE3fsDz0I"&gt;Listen&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;24:08—David Lang: child, II. sweet air | &lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IkDVPSl_2E"&gt;Listen&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;25:21—David Lang: almost all the time | &lt;a href="https://jasperstringquartet.bandcamp.com/track/almost-all-the-time-composed-by-david-lang"&gt;Listen&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;28:53—Brian Ferneyhough: La chute d'Icare | &lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7M0MZ424g0"&gt;Listen&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;30:58—Brian Ferneyhough: &lt;em&gt;no time (at all)&lt;/em&gt; | &lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EitDG_Ae4EE"&gt;Listen&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;32:09—Brian Ferneyhough: &lt;em&gt;Superscriptio&lt;/em&gt; | &lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fr3sZ4I0eWU"&gt;Listen&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;33:36—J.S. Bach: &lt;em&gt;Invention No. 15 in B minor&lt;/em&gt; | &lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyTA4CT0-pA"&gt;Listen&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;34:26—J.S. Bach: &lt;em&gt;Mass in B minor, "Crucifixus"&lt;/em&gt; | &lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCP4XGP4jVw"&gt;Listen&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;38:49—David Lang: &lt;em&gt;breathless&lt;/em&gt; | &lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCqoau5Hb9E"&gt;Listen&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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