Marius

Come on people, be a little open-minded; break free of all these classical structures and let's try the movie theme, it's something different and interesting. Maybe the whole idea of a competition is to challenge yourself to try and write something different and see how your attempt compares to those of the rest of the contestants.

Obviously my opinion is biased but I honestly think that it's worth a try, I see many people on this forum are very classically trained and very much fixated on that structured ideal, which is wonderful, don't get me wrong. But sometimes a little variety is a good thing, you never known what you'll learn from the experience.

Plus, all the competitions so far have been more or less centred around a structured form, perhaps if this one was for a movie scene then our composers could learn to lose the idea of "movements" and "sonatas" and try to actually write the music for music's sake, let the piece take itself where it wants to go without having to fit within any boundaries outside of the limits of the composer's imagination.

So let's decide soon people, the poll's been up long enough I think, let's just get a concensus and get going on it, but please consider what I said before you too hastily choose the chamber ensemble.

Looking forward to competing,

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