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Iancu Dumitrescu and Ana-Maria Avram are quite hip right now because
of the new Romanian freedoms -- they certainly seem to be able to
organise orchestras and recordings quite cheaply and routinely over
there. I think Iancu Dumitrescu and Ana-Maria Avram do one or two
things quite well, but musical representations of the big bang etc.
will not guarentee they'll be there at the start or the end.
Stockhausen and Boulez are like old rivals, each apparently suffering
writers' block since at least the mid '70s, and they follow logically
on from Schoenburg, Webern et. al. anyway, so they're more a mid 20th
century thing, at their respective peaks, and maybe politics have
meant Iancu Dumitrescu and Ana-Maria Avram too are somewhat repressed.
However the field's wide open _right_now_ -- more stuff is being
recorded now than ever of a lot of mid century guys who are
conveniently dead eg Morton Feldman, John Cage, Stefan Wolpe, but
it's still mid-century. Charles Wuorinen is comfy and academic and
being re-packaged a la 'greatest hits' -- a lot of it '60s and '70s,
a bit more accessible.
Well all this stuff mentioned is good, but it's the same old names --
will Penderecki be remembered for anything except his Hiroshama piece
(don't forget) etc..
My point is, there are lots of minor or just less-known composers for
orchestras, electronics, there're all sorts of modern/post..
classical tradition composers out there. The big current roll-out of
Xenakis coincided with his death last year -- well at least he got to
finally hear some of his orchestral works for the first time.
The big name guys influenecd lots of less well known people who may
have recordings or events you can participate in _now_, not 50 years
later -- live classical concerts really do go off when you're almost
sitting in the orchestra. These are the moments in classical
tradition music you can participate in fully, and they deserve your
support.
Check out the modern-classical newsgroup archives at Google or post
your enquiry to it -- these people know what you might like -- once
we start treating composers like Stockhausen as the Wagner or Elvis
of their scenes we're doing everyone else an injustice.
― George Gosset, Thursday, 28 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
ten years pass...
you mean like a tom service but not like tom service? idk i cant think of anything offhand
theres an amusing piece with daniel barenboim in yesterdays guardian making the case for boulez as a worthy companion to beethoven, conductors and performers are usually better advocates for the unfortunately term 'new music' than writers (thinking of ppl like ricardo chailly or ian pace)....else you could all the way back to adorno &c