In the cities, not even the Gideon's army known as "the concert-going public" could be drawn to an all-cotemporary program. They took place only in university concert halls. Here on the campus the program begins with Scott Joplin's "Maple Leaf Rag", followed by one of Stockhausen's early compositions, "Punkte", then Babbit's Ensembles for Synthesizer, a little Easley Blackwood and Jean Barraqué for a change of pace, then the committed plunge into a random-note or, as they say, "stochastic" piece for piano, brass, Moog synthesizer, and computer by Iannis Xenakis. The program winds up with James P. Johnson's "You Gotta Be Modernistic". Joplin and Johnson, of course, are as cozy and familiar as a lullaby, but they are essential to the program. The same thrty-five or forty souls, all of them faculty members and graduate students, make up the audience at every contemporary musical event. The unspeakable fear is that not even they will show up unless promised a piece of candy at the beginning and a piece of candy at the end.

—Tom Wolfe, From Bauhaus to Our House