on the "lack of originality" in contemporary classical

[acroyear]

particularly from those who think that, post-Cage, there's no way to create an original musical sound anymore...

Sounds & Fury: The Next Big Thing:

Every composer writing today should have printed in large red letters and placed in a prominent place on the wall above his writing desk Schoenberg's, "There is still plenty of good music to be written in C Major." It will give him the perspective he needs to write real music instead of racking his brains to discover The Next Big Thing, or, if he's incapable of doing so, convince him to give up composing music entirely as a hopeless enterprise where he's concerned.