https://freerepublic.com/tag/terryteachout/ en-us Sun, 3 Mar 2019 23:59:06 GMT Focus Forum 15 https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3731910/posts ...In the pithy summation of Terry Teachout, Alec Wilder "spent his life looking for cracks to fall through". Back in the days when we still had record stores, he didn't quite fit the pop bins or the classical bins or the jazz bins. Which is why, if you're hung up on categorization, it's easier to leave him out of the store altogether. As he himself acknowledged, his compositions "were gunned down by the jazz boys because they had a classical flavor, and they were gunned down by the classical boys because they had a jazz flavor." Still, discriminating persons at... Steyn On-line https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3731910/posts#comment Sun, 3 Mar 2019 23:59:06 GMT