ot: tape music

[Martin Czech]

On Wednesday I went to a tape music concert, tapes/pieces by Eimert,
Stockhausen, Reich, Xenakis and Beria.  Mostly 6 or 8 channel audio.

I think this was really something. You don't have the possibility to
listen to the original recordings very often.

And a very moderate price, too: only 6 Euro.

And it was in the concert hall of the Freiburg college of music, where
people from all over the world come and study music.  (the tramways are
full of beautiful japanese violonist girls ...).


... but only 40 people came to listen, a couple of them were also occupied
with the performance, installing speakers etc, so we can't count them in,
and also not some friends of the organising people etc. so there were
only 20 strangers remaining. And: only one music professor attended,
he's got the chair for new music, so I guess he had to.
Where were his colleagues? Certainly not in vacation, since there were
also exams before the concert on the very same day, just a few hours before.


Now my question:

Is this normal?

Or what kind of oldfashioned city do I live in?

What kind of music college is this where most students are not interested
in contemporary compositions?


m.c.