Minimalism Debate

Concerning Donna Perlmutter’s “The Growing Debate Over Minimalism,” June 18:

The eminent British composer Benjamin Britten, who was not an academician and certainly not a minimalist, was asked during an interview about the various compositional styles of the 20th Century. He replied that “the important thing is not what style a person composes in but whether the chap has anything to say.”

It seems that about all the academicians and minimalists have to say are commentaries they give about their music.

KENNETH LEAVENS

Fullerton