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Glass beat ya to it...

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In Reply to: RE: I have shockingly bad taste� posted by David Aiken on December 27, 2007 at 22:47:08

Sort of, via his alternate opera/soundtrack to Cocteau's Beauty & The Beast. Now THERE's a movie.

LOL, ain't it a stitch...thirty - forty years on these composers still provoke fear and/or loathing in the general music lover's breat.

The Dracula to a Glass quartet could be fun, actually, although Freaks is my all-time fave Browning film.

To be perfectly honest, I haven't been in love with much by Glass since his violin concerto but, oddly enough, I think he's a brilliant and effective film composer. Cage has acquired "grand old man" status now - isn't it amusing? I first became familiar with him through his pieces for choreographer/partner Merce Cunningham. Have you seen Meredith perform her pieces? Not to be missed, although I don't know if she does it anymore. I saw her back in the 70s and early 80s. Lou Harrison and Curran? Are you a New Yorker?

BTW, the Philip Glass Appreciation Society on -line fan club is headquartered just down the road from me in Carmel, IN. Really.

Seriously, if you can concenrtate on NY downtown minimalism & other musical iconoclasts try some horror/scifi with "redeeming" qualities: Devil's Backbone, Pan's Labyrinth, Children of Men etc.

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RE: Glass and Higdon - phatty 10:32:30 12/28/07 (3)
I have the DVD Audio disk of Glass's Koyaanisqatsi and CD of Symphony # 2 , and enjoy them both. I think the # 2 disk has a saxaphone piece on it, which I also like.

I used to chat with Jennifer Higdon on another board all the time, and purchsed one of her disks. It is gathering dust. I think it was one of her first.

I recently saw Jeffrey Biegel, and enjoyed it very much. He played a Liebermann piece , and later in 2008, he will be playing Keith Emerson's Piano Concerto in selected cities, as he is a friend of Keith's.

Are you familiar with Biegel?
- Played one of best Rhapsody In Blue I've ever heard... - Harmonia 11:11:41 12/28/07 (2)
  ...in, of all places, Muncie IN. Isn't he the pianist who put together the commission of Lowell Liebermann's 3rd Piano COncerto? Liebermann is a very "accessible" modern composer and very adept at the concerto form. Very entertaining, not afriad of big themes and devlopment. His 2nd concerto brought down the house a couple years ago here in Indy. I bet you heard the new 3rd you lucky dog.
  
  I have a certain appreciation for Glass - though I find him a very mixed bag. I tend to prefer John Adams' brand of minimalism.
  
  I'm not fmailiar with Higdon's early work. I have heard her large orchestral works - Blue Cathedral, City Scape and Concerto For Orchestra - live in concert with the local band. Dust off that CD, she is the real deal. Blue Cathedral was pretty special.
  - Yes, it was the Third.... - phatty 11:49:00 12/28/07 (1)
    ..with the Hartford Symphony Orchestra.
    Fantastic.
    
    Believe it or not, I only got interested in him because he said he was a friend of Emerson's. There were plans for him and Emerson toperform on the same bill, Biegel doing the Emerson Concerto ,and Emerson playing a new adaptation of a Ginestera piece. I don't see that happening, but Biegel will play Emerson with Champaign / Urbana Symphony in Illinois in April, I believe.
    
    That's just a bit far from connecticut for a road trip.
    
    I will dust off the Higdon disk. I remember her joking thatthe first cut on the disk is enough to drive a cat crazy , or something to that effect.
    
    I have been thinking about getting Blue Cathedral, maybe I will.
    
    Thanks
    - Champaign/Urbana is less than 2 hours from me. - Harmonia 15:05:08 12/28/07 (0)
      Maybe I will check it out, if I'm not working. Some folks that used to play in the Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra are teaching over at U of I. I haven't seen Keith Emerson in...let's just say it's been a looooong time ;-)
      
      Blue Cathedral - go for it. Also check out Lowell Liebermann on disc.

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