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The obvious comparison is with Steve Reich's Come Out , which also manipulates a looped vocal sample where the loops are out of synch and create complex rhythmic patterns. In this case, the course of the piece is more complex than increasing complexity (as in the Reich), but the underlying vocal sam...

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Just musing aloud, really, but doesn't music require some sort of organising principle? It doesn't have to be rhythm, melody or harmony but it's pretty hard without at least one of them for me to enjoy it. You might see that simply as a personal failure by me, and you might be right. Some people ju...

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The Glimmerglass Opera in Cooperstown, New York has been steadily producing Handel operas. I've seen three of them, Agrippina, Orlando and Acis and Galatea . I was pleasantly surprised at how well they work in the theater, even with all of the da capo arias and other baroque conventions. Orlando fea...

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They'll probably ignore you, but it's a fight worth fighting. They should play Tehillim no matter what time of year it is.

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Sounds like movie material. They could call it The Harpsichordist.

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Suggested listening: Piano music of Guy Sacre ( 1948 - ),pianist Billy Eidi, my Timpani cd released 1995: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0r0XmFxf2OE&list=OLAK5uy_nbcJnpdY24l1vU7-UKTIaWjZbx7PDNtXI Sacre , what a name for a modern composer to have, especially one that writes in a style reminiscent o...

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Agreed. In music as in language, newness is created by combining the familiar basic elements (pitch, words) in original ways. After composing 100 symphonies, Haydn could and did still create original works in the form, as Shakespeare could after writing 100 sonnets. Right. And at the same time new ...

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I think it goes without saying that music composed recently will sound different than music composed 100 or 200 years ago, simply because people have different experiences, different means of expression and different sounds in their ears than people in earlier times. Any composer left to express the...

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His 4th symphony was written in 2013, but before he died he had completed a 6th. His music tends towards dark moods, and the 2nd of this symphony's 2 movements is called "Doloroso". The opening movement is uncharacteristically cheerful.

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I related to your comment about your brain having no more room for certain composers!! Can you post any of the modern works you like, if these are available? This is a list of pieces which I have enjoyed and really rock my boat musically speaking. Some of them I've known for a long time, some of th...

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Rautavaara Clarinet Concerto I heard Stoltzman play this in 2003 in Carnegie Hall. It wasn't the premiere performance, but close to it. It's a beautiful work, and Stoltzman sounded fabulous. The concerto spends a lot of time in the upper altissimo register, many ledger lines above the staff. I had ...

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Sounds interesting.

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I think food like that was meant to be consumed with Falstaff (if only they still made it)

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One of the great pleasures I take in music is discovering new music (that is, new to me) and taking pleasure in it, absorbing its contents and adding it to my memory banks so to speak, and finding out what makes it work. As I get older I find that certain stylistic categories have been filled up, an...

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Half a dozen 'toxic males' saved the lives of Sydney-siders yesterday when a nutcase wielding a knife went on the rampage in the CBD killing 1 woman and badly injuring another. They held him down with cafe chairs and a milk crate over his head until police arrived. So enough of the politically-moti...

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It’s a shame it took the recent death of Ben Johnston to goad me into listening to his celebrated series of string quartets, but I must say I’m not the only one. In fact discs of the Kepler Quartet’s Ben Johnston cycle have been a little bit hard to get ahold of. I now have two discs of the three di...

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Nice! Thank you. (assuming that was in reference to my piece). I wanted to add that that flute community is extremely proactive in encouraging new music for flute. They go out of their way to encourage composers. I'm sure I will be writing more music for flute. There are two American composers who ...

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The group Quaternity gave this performance of my Murmuration for flute quartet at the Florida Flute Festival in 2018, and did an especially good job of it. This piece is inspired by the mass movements of starlings in the evening, creating fluid, undulating shapes as they search out spots to roost fo...

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I'm a Tippett fan of long standing, and am always pleased when someone takes on one of his difficult scores -- and they're all mind-bogglingly difficult. Ang seems to have really gotten this well under his fingers, and yeah, the fast movement is really quite exhilerating. Tippett's last piano sonata...

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I kept waiting for the reviewer to tell me what the wrong question is that Lepage is trying to answer, and what's the right question?

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Thank you, Lance and maestrob for your comments. There's no particular connection between the city of Silver Spring and my piece Silver Spring other than the fact that I was in that city when I needed a title. The piece exists in two other versions, the original version for clarinet quartet (3 clari...

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A few weeks ago, on March 23, the Prince George's Philharmonic (Prince George's County, Maryland), under the direction of Jesus Manuel Berard, gave the first complete performance of my orchestral work Silver Spring . Silver Spring is a suburb of Washington DC that sits on its northern border in Mont...

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The news has just come out that conductor Michael Gielen just died. The German website I've linked to describes him as a composer, but I remember him mainly as a conductor. Specifically, I remember him as the conductor of a 1973 recording of Schoenberg's Moses und Aron which I found mind-blowing and...

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Tonight we saw this Bdway play directed by Bartlett Sher-a very impressive production-wonder if he could talk to Gelb about finding someone to make it into an opera ala Marnie! It could be, given the right librettist and composer. It sounds like something that Jake Heggie ( Dead Man Walking, Moby D...

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Excellent discovery! This piece was new to me.

I just listened to it and found it very engrossing.

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Secondly, given that all of the Jewish members of the orchestra had been dismissed (and, by that time, if they had not emigrated, they would most likely have been in concentration camps), and also that the exigencies of war had taken their toll on the orchestra, I would think that the standard of p...

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I heard Yuja Wang perform an phenomenal Prokofiev 2nd Piano Concerto in 2007, just before she became the superstar she is today -- and also before she started wearing the short dresses. It was quite clear she has the goods and doesn't need to make a show of herself. I would easily choose her over Ba...

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I watched the opening and it looks promising, and yes I enjoyed the music.

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The original piece by Denis Dutton which initiated this thread covered so many fascinating subjects, the very least of which concerned modern music, I was very distressed to see it used to start just another round of modern music bashing. If you think it's all complicated stuff that no one can under...

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New York Times wrote: A week later, a John Adams piano concerto called “Must the Devil Have All the Good Tunes?” will be given its New York premiere by the pianist Yuja Wang, with Gustavo Dudamel conducting the Los Angeles Philharmonic.

I would think that title would be a more fitting project for John Luther Adams.

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Toxic masculinity is very real and very much with us, and it's big problem that needs to be addressed. Whether or not it's the business of a razor blade advertisement to address it is besides the point. You can't fault the ad for saying that men should be better than to allow bullying and sexual har...

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I am very sorry to read this news. John and I seemed to disagree about everything one could disagree about, at least on the musical side of this forum, though I usually liked what he had to say about politics on the Corner Pub. In his memory I will listen to nothing but Bach for the next week, and r...

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Just a few years ago I bought the earlier incarnation of the Brilliant Classics Haydn Edition, and now I see they've improved it. Durn.. I love the Fischer performances of the symphonies, as well as the Buchberger Quartet's performances of the string quartets. I was really annoyed that the set I bou...

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I am very sorry to hear this news. He's too young for this kind of thing to be happening. I've lost track of him for a number of years, but he did write a nice clarinet quartet for me (3 clarinets and bass clarinet) which I performed on a couple of occasions around 2003. I hope he is able to recover...

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Orchestras in Britain are embracing a digital revolution by replacing sheet music with tablet computers. In Leeds tonight the Yorkshire Young Sinfonia will go “100 per cent digital” with sheet music ditched from its musicians’ stands in favour of iPads and Bluetooth foot pedals deployed to turn the...

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About the title Un Buen Piola Porteño , which one reviewer found puzzling. I got this phrase from an Argentine poster on a different classical music board, one which no longer exists. The poster liked to talk about various contemporary music concerts he'd gone to in Buenos Aires, and other things no...

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Currently, there are two reviews running for this CD at Fanfare. Here is the other one: Grecian Urn Colin Clarke Fanfare There is a heady mix here of popular music taken into a contemporary vernacular, itself inspired by Stravinsky and Bartók and—by the composer’s own admission—the “charm” of Forte’...

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Congratulations, Mark! A fine CD, I'm sure, and an even finer review. Now, where can we buy a copy? Thank you. If you click on the link at the bottom of my first post, it will take you to the Navona Records site, and you'll see a number of options. To purchase the CD, click on the Amazon link, if y...

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I'll have to follow it up with settings of Rabelais, Chaucer and Balzac.

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The following review to my CD Grecian Urn will be appearing in the Sept./Oct. 2018 issue of Fanfare Magazine. David DeBoor Canfield, Fanfare Magazine (Sept/Oct. 2018) Mark G. Simon is one of no fewer than 10 composers included in this month’s batch of reviews that is completely new to me, despite th...

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One of the most brilliant musicians I have ever known is Edward Murray, orchestra conductor and theory professor at Cornell University for many years. He was a relative (nephew perhaps) of Arthur Murray, and had inherited the dancer's taste in music, and developed a love of the classics and a specia...

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I grew up listening to his recordings of Prokofiev, which were just then being released on the Melodiya/Angel label. The very first recording I heard had the Prokofiev 1st Violin Concerto and on the other side of it was this really blistering performance of Hindemith's Kammermusik no. 4 with Igor Oi...

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I'll have to say, though, that I don't find a lot to recommend in the examples I've heard of Ludovico Einaudi.

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John F . I'm not quite sure what your message has to do with what I wrote, whether that was supposed to be a rebuttal or what. Certainly classical music will only survive if people keep writing it. And if they choose to write it incorporating stylistic elements of popular music, that will be fine a...

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Classical composition involves an approach to structure and continuity which popular styles of music generally lack. Classical composition is not defined by style but rather by an approach to structure. Therefore, provided that approach to structure is present, there is no reason not to incorporate ...

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I recently performed Stanford's Serenade in F major, op. 95. This is a nonet for flute, clarinet, horn, bassoon, 2 violins, viola, cello and bass. It was written in 1905, and is in the usual four movements. The texture is very full, especially in the first movement, so that part of the challenge of ...

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It is quite clear she was summarizing in her own words what the singer was telling her.

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So the quoted statement is that of the singer, Yvonne Kenny, not of the psychologist Lichter. The title of this thread, then, is misleading. "A psychiatrist's point of view - contemporary music", leading the reader to the assumption that a psychiatrist, after some well researched study, had conclude...

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Lance, now I'm curious. Could you please put the quote in some kind of context? Could you at least post the paragraph from which it came? You could snap a picture of the page from which it came and post it here so we can read what comes before and after.

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Lance, why on earth are you posting this? Out of this lengthy book, why did you choose to pull this one sentence completely out of context? Of what significance is it that this author who is interviewing performing musicians about their experiences of performing inserts this one sentence about conte...

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