Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 larry 2/4/84; site hlwpc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!mhuxn!mhuxh!hlexa!hlwpc!mej From: mej@hlwpc.UUCP (Michael Jacobs) Newsgroups: net.music.classical Subject: Looking for classical-sounding modern composers Message-ID: <416@hlwpc.UUCP> Date: Fri, 26-Oct-84 16:07:42 EDT Article-I.D.: hlwpc.416 Posted: Fri Oct 26 16:07:42 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 27-Oct-84 04:13:05 EDT Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Short Hills, NJ Lines: 9 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?