Klarinet Archive - Posting 000152.txt from 2008/12

From: Tim Roberts <timr@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] Re: If Mozart Were Alive Today...
Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2008 17:31:26 -0500

On Mon, 29 Dec 2008 15:23:27 -0500, Alexander Brash
<brash@-----.edu> wrote:
> A friend of mine posed this to me the other week - if the "greats" of
> yesteryear were alive today, what sort of music would they be
> composing, if any?
>
> My hunch is that they'd be rappers. Agree/disagree?
>

No way. Peter is right. Rap is for librettists, like W. S. Gilbert.
It doesn't have nearly enough opportunities for creative expression in
the melodic arena.

Bach would probably be doing church music, just as he did during his
life. Just imagine him exploring the edges of choral music under
today's rules, the way Morten Lauridsen does.

Rossini could compete with Andrew Lloyd Webber for the Broadway stage.
I agree with Roger, placing Beethoven as John Williams.

Vivaldi would be pumping out pablum hits for the pop stars of today.

Would Mozart have beaten John Cage to compositions like 4'33"?

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Tim Roberts, timr@-----.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.

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