GRGR(5) - Cherokee and bebop

[Tod Mahony]

Michael Arnowitt and j minnich wrote:
> 
> >   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??    

That happens to be the last page I read before going to sleep last night. 
Here's the whole paragraph, from page 439: 

	This rainy morning, in the quiet, it seems that Gustav's German Dialectic has
come to its end.  He has just had the word, all the way from Vienna along some
musicians' grapevine, that Anton Webern is dead.  "Shot in May, by the
Americans.  Senseless, accidental if you believe in accidents--some mess cook
from North Carolina, some late draftee with a .45 he hardly knew how to use,
too late for WW II, but not for Webern.  The excuse for raiding the house was
that Webern's brother was in the black market.  Who isn't?  Do you know what
kind of myth *that's* going to make in a thousand years?  The young barbarians
coming in to murder the Last European, standing at the far end of what'd been
going on since Bach, an expansion of music's polymorphous perversity till all
notes were truly equal at last . . . .  Where was there to go after Webern? 
It was the moment of maximum freedom.  It all had to come down.  Another
Goetterdaemmerung--"


Tod