Chris Swithinbank

At the end of Oc­to­ber, sparked by a post by Ian Pace, a heated de­bate took place on Face­book around the protest ac­tion of Jo­hannes Krei­dler against the fu­sion of the radio or­ches­tras at Baden-Baden/Freiburg and Stuttgart, which Krei­dler per­formed at this year’s Donaueschin­gen Fes­ti­val. Hav­ing con­sulted the con­trib­u­tors, Pace sub­se­quently posted the full dis­cus­sion on his blog, a pos­i­tive move, which re­in­forces the idea that so­cial media may be be­com­ing a valid arena for pub­lic de­bate.

I found both click­ing through the posts on Face­book and read­ing through the dis­cus­sion on Ian’s blog some­what tir­ing and vi­su­ally con­fus­ing, so put to­gether a for­mat­ted PDF of the dis­cus­sion to ease my read­ing. I thought this may prove use­ful to oth­ers, so here it is to dis­trib­ute as any­one sees fit.

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Up­date, 30/11: The Gesellschaft für Neue Musik, the or­gan­i­sa­tion which com­mis­sioned Jo­hannes Krei­dler’s per­for­mance, have re­leased a state­ment re­gard­ing this dis­cus­sion, which you can read over on Ian Pace’s blog.