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Re: support for classical music

Author: Barry Vincent
Date: 2013-12-02 21:55

I've just looked through some of my modern music as in my CD collection and it's surprising what I have. Here's a list of just the American (as in USA America) composers that I have.
First of all there's Aaron Copland & Samuel Barber. Two modern day composers that you could actually program a whole concert with and you'd get a good audience for sure.
Then there's Ferde Grofe of the Grand Canyon Suite fame.
Roy Harris & Walter Piston with their excellent symphonies.
Virgil Thomson and his wonderful but short score for the film documentary "The Plow that Broke the Plains" and his Symphony of Hymn Tunes.

Then there's a few composers on the other side of the Atlantic.
I have all the Symphonies of Dmitri Shostakovich. His 5th is my favourite.
I've also acquired an ear for the 7 Symphonies of Arnold Bax. Also his 'tone poem' Tintagel is wonderful.
I've always enjoyed listening to the Symphonies and Overtures of Carl Nielsen. I have his Clarinet Concerto with it's awful banal tune that opens this work. I never enjoyed this Concerto which one Music Critic described as a "Concerto AGAINST the Clarinet" But I do love his Flute Concerto.

So as you can see, despite what I"ve written previously, I do enjoy listening to modern 'Serious' Orchestral music. The one thing that is common to all the above works (except Nielsen's Clarinet Concerto

is that they all have excellent harmonies and tunes. No 'unfriendly to the ears' dodecaphony discords ect here.

Skyfacer

Post Edited (2013-12-02 22:38)

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