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From: jeffw@tekecs.UUCP (Jeff Winslow)
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Subject: Re: Looking for classical-sounding modern composers
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Date: Fri, 2-Nov-84 00:52:09 EST
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> 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