This is also reflected in the instrument building of the 1970s with composers creating built-instrument ensembles; for example, "The Glass Orchestra, originated by students at Toronto's York university in the early 1970s, performs on glass instruments. Skip LaPlante and Carol Weber founded the composers collective Music for homemade instruments during the mid-1970s: they invent, build, compose and play instruments made from trash and found objects" (Gagne, 138)
. Wartime society's sudden status upheavals made certain men feel more insecure, and the new film noir genre's appeal came from its depictions of what were men's (and, as we shall see, women's) conscious and unconscious reactions to these changes" (Greenberg & Watts, 318)
Modern classical music was a direct reflection of the multitude of changes that were sweeping through society that forced individuals to re-evaluate their roles as individuals, men, women and consumers. Since modern classical music debuted in the 1940s, it's worth examining this decade first and foremost to determine which societal forces were flagrant at the time and impacting the way in which music was composed (Kennedy, 199)
"Like modern art, modern music has focused on variety and radical experimentation. Also like modern art, modern classical music witnessed a continuation of prewar developments (Spielvogel, 942)
"Beautiful, Sweet, Delicate" is thus something of a departure for Boysen, who usually specializes in works for large, brassy-sounding school bands. "Beautiful, Sweet, Delicate" is a delicate sounding piece, as befitting its name, standing in presumed contrast to Boysen's other works although not to the first "Petite Suite" that preceded it during the concert (Klein 2008)