Editorial

Editorial inspired by some ideas developed by Alvin Toffler in his book The Third Wave (W. Morrow + Co., New York 1980).

No-one can earn his living as an artist without making an effort to detect the evolutionary tendencies in our society's different modes of expression. Musicians working in the light or commercial music fields know this need to adapt, for it is vital to them. In the so-called "classical" field, where these tendencies are not marked by any popular following (representing the potential customers of the "music market"), the musician and the institutions within which he plies his trade can block or passively resist these tendencies as much as they like, since these are started by a small minority of the creators (the contemporary composers). This is probably one of the fundamental causes of the difficulty in communication between musicians and "learned" classical composers.

We performers are faced with another question here: where are they taking us? What is the sense of present-day composers' musical utterances? What are the interactions between the "aesthetics" and the "message" translating the composer's thought and the language "formula" or "code" selected?