“Classical radio is a business like everything else, and the American Public Media Group has the right to sell a station to any entity they like and for any price they deem acceptable. But the manner in which the company went about doing so was wrong, unconscionable and, frankly, despicable. … But what are the prospects for a new classical station arising from the ashes of Classical South Florida? To be honest, not great.”

So why do so many artists take this route? Well, it allows them to reassert their musical bona fides, and even when critics find said bona fides wanting, these efforts tend to net tremendous commercial success. These albums tend to fall into three basic categories: Legitimate, Enh … Passable, and — how to put it? — This is Not Your Best Work.

Published in Plos One, their study found empathetic people preferred more mellow, low-energy music.
While those who were “systemisers” – people who seek to analyse patterns in the world – enjoyed punk, heavy metal and more complex music overall.

That would be Harry Partch’s Delusion of the Fury. “For many years there was essentially only one set of instruments” – the ones the composer built himself – “capable of playing Mr. Partch’s largest works, which meant the pieces were rarely performed. But a few years ago Ensemble Musikfabrik, the German contemporary music group, decided to revive … Delusion of the Fury, and turned to Thomas Meixner, a percussionist and instrument maker, to build a new set of Partch instruments.”