GRGR(5) - Cherokee and bebop

[hankhank at ccwf.cc.utexas.edu]

On Fri, 22 Nov 1996, j minnich wrote:
> Michael Arnowitt writes
> >   Regarding Anton Webern, folks may be interested to know that he died by
> >being shot accidentally by an American soldier (hmmm...) in the last weeks
> >of WW II.
> Uh, isn't this odd tidbit included somewhere in GR itself??    

Sure. Right in the middle of Beethoven-Rossini debate. I don't have _GR_,
or companion before me know, but as I gave a talk on those two pages in
Helsinki *exactly* six months ago, I still remember that the Viking pages
in question are 440-441. In fact, Webern's status as the "end of the
German dialectic" is crucial to _GR_ as a whole. Where could one go 
after Webern? (Who gets murdered in _GR_ by some "mess cook from North
Carolina" -- some months before than in "real life", as Weisenburger
points out.) 

Of course, one could also ask "Where was there to go after Coltrane"? At
the time of his dead avant-garde cats like A Ayler began moving into less
ambitious forms; as did M Davis, of course, but the change was more
succesful to him -- maybe because he never really was so avant-gardistic
in the first place. Was the Art Ensemble of Chicago the next step with
their less stardom-based, more communalistic approach? 

Heikki