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[kelber at mindspring.com]

One last thought on why the music stopped "two years ago.":  that's when the Germans started installing the Interdikt, destroying the Bulgarian heartland, drowning out the simple agrarian music with the drumbeat of impending industrialized war?

Laura

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>From: David Payne <dpayne1912 at hotmail.com>

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>Also in 1910: "Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis for Double String Orchestra by English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams, 37, [was first performed] 9/6 at Gloucester Cathedral" -- http://www.answers.com/topic/1910
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>One last, long squeak and I'll quit my yapping (on this topic):
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>It seems to me that there was a sea change in music and the broader arts round this time, which in retrospect was a harbinger of the horror, WWI.
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>As Mark so succinctly noted (http://tinyurl.com/3kxghc): "Round about December 1910, human nature changed" -- Virginia Woolf 
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>So it may be that death of music in 1910 (assuming we have the correct year) was a reference to old ways gone, supplanted by the new (and pick yer specific bit of newness here). 
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>But to be honest, I am hard pressed to think that Pynchon would refer to the birth of something so glorious as the music of Stravinsky or Schoenberg as the "day the music died" (though, to be fair, I may be mistaking the words of Sleepcoat for the words of Pynchon).
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>Anyhow, when I originally read Laura's question ("Sleepcoat: 'Except that the music stopped two years ago.' Any thoughts, anyone, on what stopped the music?" -- http://tinyurl.com/4k9ast), I really thought, like Henry (http://tinyurl.com/3lzzzm), that this quote was going to be like the McLean song -- a reference to the day the Balkan's version of the Buddy Holly, The Big Bopper, and Ritchie Valens died.
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>And I still think, stubbornly, that it is. Perhaps during that horrific Hungarian barn dance fire (http://tinyurl.com/3zehd3), the death of 325 included that Moldovan grandmaster of song, the incredible!, the amazing!--what was his name ... life cut so tragically short?
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>In my mind, this nut remains uncracked and I'll bet that someday someone will stumble across a gloriously perfectly-fitting little factoid in the annuals of Balkan musicology ... but be that as it may, I have thoroughly enjoyed the enlightening posts to this thread!
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>(FWIW: Somewhat contrary, perhaps, to my previous postings, I actually do think that Schoenberg/Serialism was the most radical departure from "traditional" European music in the early nineteen hundreds, although most people in 1910 probably didn't realize it at the time [thanks, Robin, for pointing us that way!--http://tinyurl.com/3w2gql].)
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