The Post-War Period and the Avant-Garde

The post-war period is what grabbed your attention when you were composing your pop songs as well and drew you in through that particular rabbit hole. One of the interesting things that happened in Europe was that the need to reconstruct these different states manifested also through a desire on the parts of certain politicians to show how advanced their societies could be through the medium of art. In Germany, for example, enormous sums of money were put into music and they developed radio orchestras. Every single region had its own orchestra, very, very high levels of artistic quality as well. And so one corollary of that was that they wanted their music to be absolutely advanced and absolutely striking. That was a kind of