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What the experts say about musoc.org.
"make[s] me grit my teeth and want to play Talking Heads albums really, really loudly"
-- Anne Midgette, Washington Post
"self-parodically silly"
-- Tom Service, The Guardian
"spectacularly wrong-headed"
-- Tom Service, The Guardian
"intellectually flimsy"
-- Tom Service, The Guardian
"musically illiterate"
-- Tom Service, The Guardian
"sometimes outright nasty, and occasionally even racist"
-- Tom Service, The Guardian
"like trying to stop the world spinning on its axis by doing a few pressups"
-- Tom Service 'lecture' at York University, 2009
"like a madhouse [...] It has to be a joke, right? Right?"
-- Robert Davidson, Australian academic & crossover composer
"I looked at this site and couldn't breathe for a few minutes"
-- Kyle Gann, American composer, teacher & blogger (after successful resuscitation)
"You have become the PETA of classical music, making all manner of ridiculous statements and holding wildly unrealistic goals"
-- Robert Berger, US music educator & blogger
"extremists"
-- Corey Dargel, US singer-songwriter
"pretty hysterical"
-- Molly Sheridan, American Music Center
"this is some wanna-be composer flailing away from his parent's [sic] basement"
-- Jeff Harrington, US composer
"hilariously clueless cultural imperialism"
-- Matthew Guerrieri, US composer/pianist/conductor
"fierce, censorious, haughty"
-- Michael White, Daily Telegraph
"fundamentalismo musical"
-- João Luiz Sampaio, O Estado de S. Paulo
"great troll or greatest troll?"
-- Young Composers Forum