Minimalists (and other classical composers/musicians)

[harrymcnallysblueandwhitearmy 1,696]

Composer, pianist and Schoenberg pupil Leon Kirchner has combined his final inverted hexachord, or summat.

 

By which qualification, Kirchner fails to qualify as a minimalist. Despite my innate distrust of Wikipedia, it does have a moderately decent description of minimalism . Kirchner was a minor composer whose legacy will probably be measured by his influence on John Adams

I didn’t claim he was a minimalist. In the original post, I suggested the thread be used for “all things classical”. Which you, a few posts later, thought an “excellent suggestion” and proceeded to name several other non-minimalist composers worthy of dead pool consideration. I’ll have the thread retitled if its lack of precision irks you.

 

So far, it’s been mostly full of bricks anyway.

 

Now, now girls, handbags away

Hell, it's Friday.

[deadsox 894]

Once when I and another man participated in a job fair, we had a table with almost no information to give out. Other tables had brochures, candy, pens and other assorted information and give aways. When people asked why we didn't have any such things, our reply was "we're minimalists".

[Godot 149]

Composer, pianist and Schoenberg pupil Leon Kirchner has combined his final inverted hexachord, or summat.

 

By which qualification, Kirchner fails to qualify as a minimalist. Despite my innate distrust of Wikipedia, it does have a moderately decent description of minimalism . Kirchner was a minor composer whose legacy will probably be measured by his influence on John Adams

I didn’t claim he was a minimalist. In the original post, I suggested the thread be used for “all things classical”. Which you, a few posts later, thought an “excellent suggestion” and proceeded to name several other non-minimalist composers worthy of dead pool consideration. I’ll have the thread retitled if its lack of precision irks you.

 

So far, it’s been mostly full of bricks anyway.

Like these?

[Twelvetrees 10]

Composer, pianist and Schoenberg pupil Leon Kirchner has combined his final inverted hexachord, or summat.

 

By which qualification, Kirchner fails to qualify as a minimalist. Despite my innate distrust of Wikipedia, it does have a moderately decent description of minimalism . Kirchner was a minor composer whose legacy will probably be measured by his influence on John Adams

I didn’t claim he was a minimalist. In the original post, I suggested the thread be used for “all things classical”. Which you, a few posts later, thought an “excellent suggestion” and proceeded to name several other non-minimalist composers worthy of dead pool consideration. I’ll have the thread retitled if its lack of precision irks you.

 

So far, it’s been mostly full of bricks anyway.

Like these?

 

An excellent site, Godot. I often felt that Carl Andre failed to explore the possibilities of vertical extension, and this only serves to prove that my doubts were well founded. Such exquisite balance and clean lines, somewhat reminiscent of the sublime symmetry of Mondrian.

[DevonDeathTrip 2,360]

Pianist Arther Ferrante, the surviving half of Ferrante & Teicher, has apparently died at the age of 88. When they weren't busy making easy listening soundtracks, they spent time collaborating with John Cage, producing strange noises by "adding paper, sticks, rubber, wood blocks, metal bars, chains, glass, mallets, and other objects to piano string beds".

[Godot 149]

Pianist Arther Ferrante, the surviving half of Ferrante & Teicher, has apparently died at the age of 88. When they weren't busy making easy listening soundtracks, they spent time collaborating with John Cage, producing strange noises by "adding paper, sticks, rubber, wood blocks, metal bars, chains, glass, mallets, and other objects to piano string beds".

No bricks?

[Death Impends 8,010]

Pianist Arther Ferrante, the surviving half of Ferrante & Teicher, has apparently died at the age of 88. When they weren't busy making easy listening soundtracks, they spent time collaborating with John Cage, producing strange noises by "adding paper, sticks, rubber, wood blocks, metal bars, chains, glass, mallets, and other objects to piano string beds".

 

Proper obituary

[I.R.Baboon 221]

Elliott Carter might not be a minimalist (or he might, what do I know), but he sure is DL-material, turning 101 in 3 months and still composing.

[DevonDeathTrip 2,360]

Obscure minimalist music is making a comeback with young people in search of a new way of getting high. Digital drugs, anyone? I've just tried some and I'm distinctly unimpressed.

[harrymcnallysblueandwhitearmy 1,696]

The 'big four' minimalist composers are all edging towards their mid-70s. I wonder who'll be the first to reach the end of the drone?

 

LaMonte Young

 

Terry Riley

 

Steve Reich (in the afternoon)

 

Philip Glass

 

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I feel sure this can be turned into another of my posted-in-once-in-a-blue-moon backwater threads, maybe as a home for all things classical and avant-garde, just for Twelvetrees, NAP and myself.

 

One or two other interesting names to throw out there:

 

Pierre Boulez, angry young man of serialism (now old).

 

Milton Babbitt, even older serialist and theorist.

 

Estonia's finest, Arvo Pärt.

Milton Babbitt's more than a little off-key.

[themaninblack 2,112]

The 'big four' minimalist composers are all edging towards their mid-70s. I wonder who'll be the first to reach the end of the drone?

 

LaMonte Young

 

Terry Riley

 

Steve Reich (in the afternoon)

 

Philip Glass

 

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

 

I feel sure this can be turned into another of my posted-in-once-in-a-blue-moon backwater threads, maybe as a home for all things classical and avant-garde, just for Twelvetrees, NAP and myself.

 

One or two other interesting names to throw out there:

 

Pierre Boulez, angry young man of serialism (now old).

 

Milton Babbitt, even older serialist and theorist.

 

Estonia's finest, Arvo Pärt.

Milton Babbitt's more than a little off-key.

 

 

Should get a UK obit and unique points for Pool Ghoul...

[The Unknown Man 587]

The 'big four' minimalist composers are all edging towards their mid-70s. I wonder who'll be the first to reach the end of the drone?

 

LaMonte Young

 

Terry Riley

 

Steve Reich (in the afternoon)

 

Philip Glass

 

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

 

I feel sure this can be turned into another of my posted-in-once-in-a-blue-moon backwater threads, maybe as a home for all things classical and avant-garde, just for Twelvetrees, NAP and myself.

 

One or two other interesting names to throw out there:

 

Pierre Boulez, angry young man of serialism (now old).

 

Milton Babbitt, even older serialist and theorist.

 

Estonia's finest, Arvo Pärt.

Milton Babbitt's more than a little off-key.

 

 

Should get a UK obit and unique points for Pool Ghoul...

 

UK obit for Milton Babbitt.

[harrymcnallysblueandwhitearmy 1,696]

Pioneer of computer music, Max Mathews, has died. Without him, no Kraftwerk or Daft Punk. No SAW or Stephen Hawking-sings-Daisy Bell either.

 

(Kraftwerk started life as fairly trad beat combo - Ed)

[Octopus of Odstock 2,206]

The 'big four' minimalist composers are all edging towards their mid-70s. I wonder who'll be the first to reach the end of the drone?

 

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I feel sure this can be turned into another of my posted-in-once-in-a-blue-moon backwater threads, maybe as a home for all things classical and avant-garde, just for Twelvetrees, NAP and myself.

 

Hans Werner Henze is 82

 

 

Hans-Werner Henze is dead - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-20109290

 

Difficult to know where to put this death as he was also recorded in "Gay Dead" and in "Opera" and could also qualify for "Foreign Personalities", "The Dead of 2012" and "The Thread For People Called Hans-Werner".

[charon 4,943]

The 'big four' minimalist composers are all edging towards their mid-70s. I wonder who'll be the first to reach the end of the drone?

 

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

 

I feel sure this can be turned into another of my posted-in-once-in-a-blue-moon backwater threads, maybe as a home for all things classical and avant-garde, just for Twelvetrees, NAP and myself.

 

Hans Werner Henze is 82

 

 

Hans-Werner Henze is dead - http://www.bbc.co.uk...europe-20109290

 

Difficult to know where to put this death as he was also recorded in "Gay Dead" and in "Opera" and could also qualify for "Foreign Personalities", "The Dead of 2012" and "The Thread For People Called Hans-Werner".

 

If he truely was a minamilist, there would be a maximum of one thread imo........

[angryGreatness 96]

Well known modernist composer Elliott Carter was born in 1908. He's still actively composing (maybe).

Sorry I can't resist it!!!

 

Are you suggesting in the near future he will be actively decomposing

 

I can hear the rotton tomatoes hitting the screen

 

Sitting pretty and still breathing on my Rotten Dead Pool this year. So notable enough for them to count him on their database.

 

 

Elliott Carter has died aged 103.

[Guest Guest]

So he's gone from composing to decomposing!

[maryportfuncity 10,662]

So he's gone from composing to decomposing!

 

And one of my DDP theme teams has gone from woeful to pretty poor performance.

[VSBfromH 74]

Jonathan Harvey

 

The British composer has died aged 73. He trained with Pierre Boulez and was noted for his choral muisc which often incorporated electronics. Wouldn't want his death to be missed with all the Niemeyer / Brubeck bruhaha.

[harrymcnallysblueandwhitearmy 1,696]

The 'big four' minimalist composers are all edging towards their mid-70s. I wonder who'll be the first to reach the end of the drone?

 

LaMonte Young

 

Terry Riley

 

Steve Reich (in the afternoon)

 

Philip Glass

 

 

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

 

I feel sure this can be turned into another of my posted-in-once-in-a-blue-moon backwater threads, maybe as a home for all things classical and avant-garde, just for Twelvetrees, NAP and myself.

 

One or two other interesting names to throw out there:

 

Pierre Boulez, angry young man of serialism (now old).

 

Milton Babbitt, even older serialist and theorist.

 

Estonia's finest, Arvo Pärt.

 

A most excellent suggestion. Glass, Reich, Part and Boulez are all doing well at the moment, but there are others of similar vintage;

 

We all know about Elliott Carter, who made a sprightly century last December, but

Henri Dutilleux is 93

John Gardner is 92

Gyorgy Kurtag is 83

Hans Werner Henze is 82, as is John Joubert

Einojuhani Rautavaara is 81

Peter Sculthorpe is 80

 

All, save for Gardner, are still working. There are others, but It'd just get boring

 

However, MiB, Carl Andre - he of the bricks - is a mere 73

 

Henri Dutilleux dies at 97.

[harrymcnallysblueandwhitearmy 1,696]

The ongoing health woes of John Tavener.

 

 

"I've always been aware of mortality because I've always had ill health most of my life," he replies.

"But I suppose much more now because the cardiologist always says to me, 'Sudden death at any time.'

[harrymcnallysblueandwhitearmy 1,696]

Beware the orchestra pit.

[CaptainChorizo 1,990]

Wojciech Kilar Classical Composer who also had over 100 film scores to his credit most notably The Pianist and 1992's Bram Strokers Dracula is dead at 81.

[VSBfromH 74]

Karl Anton Rickenbacher

 

The Swiss conductor, a protégé of von Karajan and Boulez, has died aged 73. Had a heart attack sitting at his piano.

[themaninblack 2,112]

Karl Anton Rickenbacher

 

The Swiss conductor, a protégé of von Karajan and Boulez, has died aged 73. Had a heart attack sitting at his piano.

 

Made some great guitars though...