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Music Lane It's all about the music, dude! Sit down, relax and listen to some tunes. |
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Music Lane It's all about the music, dude! Sit down, relax and listen to some tunes. |
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In Reply to: Greatest 20th Century composer? posted by tinear on September 25, 2006 at 05:39:36:
Namely, film music. Indisputably a 20th Century art form, even if some of the output sounds 19th Century, particularly Romantic, in its approach. Copland, Prokofieff, Shostakovich, Auric, Arnold, Leonard Bernstein and a host of others we consider "serious" composers (including Korngold, who started out--and ended--"serious") all gave it a shot, along with quite a number--Steiner, Waxman, Herrmann, Friedhofer, Goldsmith, Raksin, Elmer Bernstein, among others--who gave it virtually their all. It's a tricky business, putting music to film (as Leonard Bernstein discovered to his teeth-gnashing frustration with "On the Waterfront"), and getting it right. In my view the people who've pulled it off are a vastly unappreciated bunch.As for "greatest" 20th Century composer, I can't say. There are too many who float my boat for a variety of reasons. But I have a few favorites based strictly on taste, among them: Prokofieff (whose spiky "wrong-key" approach appeals to my perverse nature), Rachmaninoff (particularly the "Symphonic Dances", despite its "Dies Irae" fatalism), Stravinsky (because he pushed the edge of the envelope and kept pushing, not always in the same direction), Hanson (who didn't let fads dictate his own style even as he championed others' works that he could and would never bring himself to write), and William Schuman (bandleader turned serious composer who wrote some pretty deep stuff).
And, oh, yes, add me to the Ellington fan club.
Jim
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