'necessary'

I'm not being rude: I'm saying that your actions are telling me you believe Pan's Preludes is 'necessary' for the classical community to demonstrate solidarity with other cultures.

That's also how NZ Opera is behaving about The Perfumed Garden: it's 'necessary' to show that we can embrace Muslim ideas while our allies go to war. NZ being smug, given that very few of us come from that region or have any experience of living there. Also note that it's me who embraced the idea, and you all wanted Shipwrecked. - Barbara's into it cos her recent life experience in Dubai makes her ideal and, as far as I know, she hasn't yet sang a principal role for NZ Opera and is pissy about it. Still didn't record the demo that I asked her to make of Hamdonna's song, though. I refuse to do any more demos. Take it on faith that I can write for voices, and in fact that is precisely why you want me to write an opera. Given that I'm not interested in singing opera, allow me to demo it with professional singers and NEVER mention me using a body mic on stage, ever. I'll be fucking damned before I let them mic the singers in my opera. I want to prove that normal opera voices can sing intelligible English if the composer has a knack for prosody. -

You know, when classical music was actually important, the pieces weren't necessary.

They were written for kings, about kings, or frivolous stuff to entertain the upper class.

It's only really after WWII that we get this notion of 'serious, necessary' classical music.

Cos it's dying.

As opposed to other classical musics, which aren't quite so classist (though casteist). -

What's 'necessary' is new pieces that the composer, conductor, orchestra and singers actually enjoy doing. That's what Alex, Salina and company aren't quite able to do. Why? Cos musicians like to play tunes and they aren't good at writing tunes. Like, think about it, you spend 5000 bars sustaining notes or playing unintelligible rhythms with fiendish time signatures that aren't determined by groove, and you don't even get like one or two moments to play 30-100 bars of tuneful melody (or backup harmony). In Pan everyone gets a tune, they get to feel a groove and it's got rhythm. In the Perfumed Garden, everyone will get tunes, grooves and rhythms, so long as you accept that I'm famous for writing the songs, and delivering them competently is a byproduct of the war that you've been fighting with me since 2020. I want to sing jazz, not opera. - All stalkers will either email me or cease. Good or bad, the entire classical music community has egg on its face over how I was treated, and I'm not lifting the boycotts until my letters are met and my enemies have the guts to reveal themselves and apologise.