From the composer: Frank Lee Sprague
The once “modern” techniques of composition (aleatoric, atonal, 12 tone, etc), falsely so called, sometimes employing the addition of a tape machine, electronic media, etc, are now old and belong to the category of abstract works. They could also be placed under the title of experimental.
It seems that when some reviewers whose ears are accustomed to the tired, trite, unmusical and unoriginal non-melodic fare offered in the last century hear anything with a real theme structure that introduces actual melody and development, and brings pleasure and enlightenment to a listener, they are offended and threatened.
I am a Christian composer whose talent comes from God. I compose for the Glory of God in Jesus’ name. I write new and original melodies and harmonies in my serious compositions that have been recognized by true music lovers as beautiful and unique.
As for today's critics of “classical” music who profess to have an ability to advise the public as to the worthiness or originality of a new work; I refer them to the quote from Stokowsky at the bottom of this page.
….”Because he is extremely original,
and to understand originality, the understanding person
has to have originality himself, and as this is a rare matter
of the mind, (this originality), he has suffered like every
person in the realm of science and philosophy.
They have all suffered the difficulty that they are not
understood naturally by persons who are less original than
they are.
That is the price the human mind pays for being original,
for being creative, for producing something which is quite
different from every thing which has been known in that
country before him.”
Leopold Stokowsky
