the zeitgeist report

I am interested in seeing how this goes. Most people hate minimalism:

In a groundbreaking first by a major orchestra, the Los Angeles Philharmonic presents a wide-ranging survey of Minimalism. Under the watchful ear of Festival Director John Adams, Minimalist Jukebox reflects on where we've been, the current state of the art, and things to come. Run Minimalism's musical gamut from African drums to Branca’s electric guitars, from Riley, Glass and Reich to Andriessen, Pärt and Adams himself. Open your ears and expand your mind.

I intend to see Adams' "Nixon in China" performed in Portland.

John Adams writes an essay on minimalism for the LAPhil website:

Grand historical pronouncements are always dangerous and especially so in the arts, where tastes and value judgments can often turn upside down from generation to generation. For a sober reminder we need only to look at how, in the immediate years after his death, J.S. Bach was held in such low esteem by educated listeners. What one generation might consider fussy and needlessly ornate a succeeding generation can rediscover as endlessly inventive and profoundly meaningful.

"Minimalism" as an aesthetic credo came of age during the 1960s and flourished in its purest forms for roughly 15 years.