The Great Brawl Of American Classical Music

"It was composer pitted against composer: uptown vs. downtown, tonal vs. atonal, left brain vs right brain, and these musicians were NOT pulling any punches. Composers were antagonizing each other, questioning each other's validity, and bad-mouthing one another; it was like the second half of the 20th century was when Western Music went through middle school, and it was brutal! ... On this episode of Meet the Composer, we unravel one of the most contentious periods in classical music's history."