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b"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!\\xa0\\n\\xa0\\n\\u201cIf you weren't being a constructivist composer, if the music wasn't indeed about its own structure, and its own structure wasn't complicated, then you were a pariah, you were rejected. You didn\\u2019t get tenure. You didn\\u2019t get a job.\\u201d That\\u2019s Robert Sirota - Nadia\\u2019s Dad - one of many composers who came of age in the midst of this feud and struggled - for years - to find a voice.\\n\\xa0\\nOn this episode of Meet the Composer, we unravel one of the most contentious periods in classical music\\u2019s history. How did this fight begin? How did it play out? Who were the contenders?\\xa0 We hear from composers on both sides of this battle, and discover how, on all ends of the aesthetic spectrum, we can find value in differences.\\n---\\nAbout the podcast:\\nMeet the Composer is a Peabody Award-winning podcast that takes listeners into the minds and creative processes of the composers making some of the most innovative, compelling, and breathtakingly beautiful music today.\\nFollow Meet the Composer\\xa0on Twitter:\\xa0@MeettheComposerLike Meet the Composer\\xa0on Facebook:\\xa0www.facebook.com/meetthecomposer\\n---\\nQ2 Music is WQXR, New York's multi-platform home for dynamic modern\\xa0music. Discover countless new artists via our 24/7 music stream \\u2013 hand-crafted daily to reward your curiosity \\u2013 and surprise your imagination with a world of exhilarating new music.\\nProduced by Q2 Music.\\xa0www.q2music.orgFollow Q2 Music on Twitter:\\xa0@Q2MusicLike Q2 Music on Facebook:\\xa0www.facebook.com/q2music"