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From: jeffw@tekecs.UUCP (Jeff Winslow)
Newsgroups: net.music.classical
Subject: Re: Looking for classical-sounding modern composers
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Date: Tue, 30-Oct-84 11:05:26 EST
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Posted: Tue Oct 30 11:05:26 1984
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> I am a new reader to this newsgroup and a lover of classical music.
> With that aside, I'll say something outrageous:  NEARLY EVERYTHING WRITTEN
> AS CLASSICAL MUSIC IN THE LAST 50 YEARS IS GARBAGE!!!  It's as though
> composers forgot that they are supposed to be writing music that people
> can enjoy - that is pleasing to the ear.  I've tried - really tried, to
> enjoy this stuff.  My impression is that most modern composers are trying
> to outdo each other by writing music that sounds as if it originated on
> MARS!  I'd rather listen to ROCK and ROLL.  At least you can dance to it!

I'll lay odds you ain't a new net user, though - only an old hand would try
to start a violent and pointless controversy as earnestly as you are.

Actually, modern composers *are* trying to write music that sounds like it
comes from Mars. Martian composers have a tremendously advanced music (far
superior to the Residents, for instance) and many composers would Van Gogh
an inner ear to be able to write stuff like that. 

Back to your primordial semi-intellectual slime, Earthling!

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