Klarinet Archive - Posting 000166.txt from 2005/06

From: Curtis Bennett <curtis.bennett@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Somehow I passed my own test
Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2005 23:39:50 -0400

Gnarley Buttons isn't Adams' best work. For that, I suggest "short
ride in a fast machine". Or better yet, stick with Philip Glass if you
want minimilist music.

On 6/7/05, dnleeson <dnleeson@-----.net> wrote:
> I was asked to listen to a performance of a work that I had never
> heard, and didn't know who wrote it. It's "Gnarly Buttons" and
> after five minutes of it I got mad as hell because it seemed so
> very repetitions and never went anywhere. Then, later I found
> out that it was Adams, and I concluded that maybe my ear has not
> gone completely south because I never liked anything of Adams for
> exactly that reason. So hearing a work of his out of the blue
> and coming to same conclusion, I felt that maybe I'm not dead
> yet.
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