Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site dciem.UUCP Path: utzoo!dciem!jeff From: jeff@dciem.UUCP (Jeff Richardson) Newsgroups: net.music Subject: Re: some names to check out Message-ID: <1598@dciem.UUCP> Date: Tue, 25-Jun-85 10:04:27 EDT Article-I.D.: dciem.1598 Posted: Tue Jun 25 10:04:27 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 25-Jun-85 14:11:33 EDT References:Reply-To: jeff@dciem.UUCP ( Richardson) Organization: D.C.I.E.M., Toronto, Canada Lines: 18 Summary: > Some names to check out are Karlheinz Stockhausen, Morton Subotnick, > Iannis Xennakis, Gyorgy Ligeti, David Stock, John Harbison, and > Charles Wuorinen. > > They all compose what you might call contemporary classical music, > and it sounds pretty weird and is wonderful for annoying ignorant > people, who usually can't stand it. Take a break from rock and > from jazz too and listen to something a little farther outside.... I haven't heard of any of the others, but there are at least three Gyorgy Ligeti compositions on the "2001: A Space Odyssey" soundtrack album. I'm not into classical music at all, but I love them. They're wonderfully weird, and they went very well with some of the most effective scenes of the movie. -- Jeff Richardson, DCIEM, Toronto (416) 635-2073 {linus,ihnp4,uw-beaver,floyd}!utcsri!dciem!jeff {allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!dciem!jeff