Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 (Tek) 9/26/83; site tekecs.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!tektronix!orca!tekecs!jeffw From: jeffw@tekecs.UUCP (Jeff Winslow) Newsgroups: net.music.classical Subject: Re: Looking for classical-sounding modern composers Message-ID: <4151@tekecs.UUCP> Date: Fri, 2-Nov-84 00:52:09 EST Article-I.D.: tekecs.4151 Posted: Fri Nov 2 00:52:09 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 3-Nov-84 21:07:58 EST References: <416@hlwpc.UUCP> Organization: Tektronix, Wilsonville OR Lines: 21 > Can anyonerecommend a modern composer > who's music sounds "classical," either > in a baroque or a romantic sense? > Everything I've heard that's been written > in the last fifty years is either atonal, > amelodic, repetitive (e.g. P. Glass) or > simplistic (J. Williams). Doesn't anyone > write beautiful, melodic, serious music > anymore? Is your last question serious? If so, your looking in all the wrong places. What makes you think atonal music isn't melodic? A careful listening of Berg's Wozzeck or Lulu reveals much beautiful music. But then, I guess these are moldy oldies now... You know, I really get nostalgic for a good absolute monarchy now and then. These modern democracies just don't have the glory and purpose of a Louis XIV, know what I mean? I am worse than you think, Jeff Winslow