To Daniel Elder and any other white male composer who thinks “Equity silences the Muse”:

There is no muse, only privilege. Your rhetorical choice to place the Muse— and therefore your own success— outside of yourself is a smart one. It allows you to act as if you have been chosen by the ever-elusive force of Inspiration and you would be doing a disservice to it and the world if your music did not shine successfully forth. While I believe that the act of writing music could not be further away from the romantic ideal of diligently answering the call of inspiration, I’ll play along.

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