Either/or

It used to be so easy for composers: song or dance, sacred or profane, Italian or French, Rameau or Fux, German or French, Brahms or Wagner, Stravinsky or Schönberg, classic or romantic, Riemann or Schenker, tonal or atonal, European or American, uptown or down, academic or experimental, plugged-in or unplugged, mainframe or portable...

It used to be so hard for composers: song or dance, sacred or profane, Italian or French, Rameau or Fux, German or French, Brahms or Wagner, Stravinsky or Schönberg, classic or romantic, Riemann or Schenker, tonal or atonal, European or American, uptown or down, academic or experimental, plugged-in or unplugged, mainframe or portable...

Now it's so hard for composers: never before have we not been faced with a set of hard binary choices about our work.

Now it's so easy for composers: never before have we not been faced with a set of hard binary choices about our work.