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[rone]

I'd like to thank mmcirvin for directing me towards Alex Ross and his article about how elitism hurts classical music.  I found one passage positively Frippesque:

The mistake that apostles of the classical have always made is to have joined their love of the past to a dislike of the present. The music has other ideas: it hates the past and wants to escape.

I've said more than once recently that i want to become more familiar with "classical" (symphonic?  orchestral?) music, so i will take Ross's list under consideration and borrow what i can from Renée.  `Cause i gotta, you know, get culcha'ed.

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[pootrootbeer.livejournal.com]

Steve Reich is highly recommended if you're a fan of the 80's-era Crimso stuff like "Frame by Frame" and "Discipline". If there's a signature concept Reich is associated with, it's the repetition of a pattern against itself, moving in and out of phase.

Viz: Clapping Music (http://www.crownpoint.com/artists/reich/clapping.html).

[dumplechan.livejournal.com]

I love Clapping Music.

But at the end, when the musicans stopped, the audience didn't know what to do. So we pulled out violins and started playing.