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Ann Arbor doesn't belong to the
students. Yes, it's a great college
town, but Ann Arbor ultimately be-
longs to the homeowners who pay
thousands every year in taxes,
As heavy-handed as the television
campaign might have been, the
statistics are not without accuracy.
Had rent control passed, the city
would have eventually passed the
burden of lost revenue on to the
homeowners. And in simple eco-
nomic terms, the passage of Proposal
C would have cause the abandon-
ment of some housing complexes.
Nobody wants to hold onto an in-
vestment that doesn't promise great
returns.
The fact that rent contrpl has
failed miserably in other cities, like
New York, suggests that the effort to
push Proposal C was doomed from
the start. Ironically, one could argue
that all the effort made by the propo-
nents of the proposal worked against
what they were striving for - clean,
affordable housing.
Lower-income people are lost in
the middle of the rent control issue,
and there are no two ways about it.
For those newly-elected officials who
gained office on the same night the
,flicker of hope died for those who
can't afford to leave the streets, the
challenge is to come up with some
housing. Of course, I am dancing
around the phrase, "higher taxes," but
if somebody doesn't start making
sacrifices and taking the initiative,
the old man on the park bench is go-
ing to have to move over and make
some room really soon. M
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D: Is your writing more linear or
chordal?
B: I'd say I'm both. I hope to have
a very wide vocabulary of music and
style and feeling. I hope that I make
it all mean something.
D: Is your goal to communicate a
certain feeling?
B: Well, that's the thing you com-
municate. In the end, it's very much
involved with emotions....I think a
lot of music in the twentieth cen-
tury in particular... is not very ex-
pressive. It's been written by aca-
demics who sit in offices, just like
mine, and worry about what others
think and it sounds like that. It
doesn't mean that you can't write
anything academic and it not be
meaningful. Bach was.one of thou-
sands of [academics] writing forget-
table music, but his music just
happen to stand out... Bob Premum
of Eastman used to say that the
worst thing about American music
today is that this is the only time
where we are judged almost exclu-
sively by our peers...And the trou-
ble with that is the peers judge peo-
ple by themselves. "Does it con-
form to my judgement of style? Is
this composer an ally in this politi-
cal game of composing"...which is
such a big stake game (laughs). I
love what one person said about
composers gauging each others eyes
out to get a tuba sonata played in
the basement...it's so petty. So
winning something like the
[Pulitzer] isn't necessarily winning a
world-wide prize, because I don't
think people spend that much time
listening to serious modern music.
D: Do you think Jazz is American
classical music?
B: It depends on the music. Some
of our classical music is jazz. Some
of our classical music is ragtime.
Some of it is neither one of those
things. {Classical] music is what-
ever has survived, because we find it
is meaningful. I refuse to put
things into categories whether it is
tonal or atonal...I think this is a
problem.[saying]" I like only this
type of music."... "Whatever is
good for soul the soul" as Samuel
Johnson once said. Jazz is an
important part of our lives, but I
don't think it is the only American
improvisational form.I think jazz in
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