| Popis: |
SAL MARTIRANO was an iconoclast. That much was immediately obvious to me from my very first encounter with him at the first annual conference of the American Society of University Composers in New York in the Spring of 1966. Sal was one of the founding members of that organization, a group whose very name spells out an acronym-a deliciously indelicate conglomeration of letters that some of the group's more staid members found offensive from the start, and which has more recently prompted its board, regrettably in the view of some, to sanitize the name of the association to the relatively innocuous-sounding "Society of Composers, Inc."-that in a sense symbolized the "in your face" attitude so prevalent during what journalists have come to call, with the typical lack of imagination that characterizes so many journalistic cliches, "the turbulent sixties." |
