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Olympus 
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 Topic: Philip Glass
Posted: December 02 2005 at 04:24 |
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I think Philip Glass should be here.
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RoyalJelly
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Posted: December 02 2005 at 04:49 |
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Sorry, but the list of people who should be here before
Philip Glass is very, very long. There are a great many
composers who have been mixing rock with modern classical
music, in a way that moves BOTH forward in a progressive
manner. John Zorn, Fred Frith, Django Bates are a few names
that come to mind, none on this site. Or Mark-Anthony Turnage,
whose orchestral epic "Blood on the Floor" features John
Scofield on guitar and Peter Erskine on drums, a monumental,
powerful work.
Philip Glass on the other hand stays in always safe territory,
known as "minimalism". While I admire a few composers in this
idiom, like Steve Reich who writes truly dramatic, moving
music, and Terry Riley, who pioneered electronic loops before
early Soft machine, Glass strikes one as incredibly
unadventuresome, if not outright boring. His endlessly
repeating major and minor chord arpeggios and pre-
Beethoven harmonic and rhythmic concepts would seem to be
the very opposite of progressive.
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Korova
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Posted: December 03 2005 at 10:36 |
 RoyalJelly wrote:
&nbs p; Sorry, but
the list of people who should be here before
Philip Glass is very, very long. There are a great many
composers who have been mixing rock with modern classical
music, in a way that moves BOTH forward in a progressive
manner. John Zorn, Fred Frith, Django Bates are a few names
that come to mind, none on this site. Or Mark-Anthony Turnage,
whose orchestral epic "Blood on the Floor" features John
Scofield on guitar and Peter Erskine on drums, a monumental,
powerful work.
Philip Glass on the other hand stays in always safe territory,
known as "minimalism". While I admire a few composers in this
idiom, like Steve Reich who writes truly dramatic, moving
music, and Terry Riley, who pioneered electronic loops before
early Soft machine, Glass strikes one as incredibly
unadventuresome, if not outright boring. His endlessly
repeating major and minor chord arpeggios and pre-
Beethoven harmonic and rhythmic concepts would seem to be
the very opposite of progressive. |
I agree perfecly your analysis. 
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memowakeman
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Posted: December 03 2005 at 12:19 |
Should or shouldn´t
Philip Glass
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Hemispheres
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Posted: December 03 2005 at 13:36 |
I say no hes more just modern classical but i like his music its relaxing
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Trotsky
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Posted: December 03 2005 at 13:42 |
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I've heard two albums (one based on a Mishima movie) can't remember the
other but it was very dull New Age stuff ... based on those two,
definitely not
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