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Originally Posted by QcCowboy
STOP fixating on my comment and take the time to read what he wrote and how equally unacceptable his comment was. You MIGHT then understand the context for my "parody".
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At least my "parody" had a greater basis in truth than yours. Glass actually does write formulaic music (this is not to bash him, but face it - he has been churning out the same earcandy for years now; however, I have stated elsewhere on this board that I do respect his more radical earlier stuff), whereas Boulez does not and keeps reinventing his musical idiom.
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Originally Posted by mgrafe@indiana.edu
What about Louis Andriessen? He's certainly an interesting take-off on the minimalist school.
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I agree. Andriessen is one of the most interesting minimalists and perhaps the only one who has been able to combine minimalist techniques with post-war European modernism and dissonance. Although not everything I've heard by him has the same strength, at least Andriessens harmonic language is way more interesting, complex and sophisticated than the simplistic, easy-going triadic harmonies of John Adams and Philip Glass.