How sad...

I saw a post from the BYU Organ Workshop yesterday that made me a little sad. They announced a workshop about composition with a fine teacher who is both a great organist and a good composer. Yet at the end of the post, it said that advanced knowledge of music theory was required to participate. They just pulled the rug out from a bunch of people. And they reiterated that ivory tower point of view that, to write great music, you have to be fluent in the most advanced harmonies, further making...