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Old Apr 20 2008, 2:48 PM
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Good job... now half the population is going to be speaking in numbers, and the other half like cavemen....

Ug, me no like numbertalk....


ROFLMAO!!!

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Originally Posted by SSC View Post
About Boulez, uh. I don't know why he gets so much shit, nor Glass really. Come on. Might as well start bashing everyone from Cage to Vivaldi and Palestrina.
Like you said, there's nothing new under the sun.....

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Oh wow people have different tastes in music? IMPOSSIBLE! It MUST be the composers that suck instead!!
LOL!!!

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Originally Posted by gms5287 View Post
Boulez is an internationally acclaimed composer AND conductor, and he's in the history/theory books. What have you done?
I know this question wasn't asked of me, but I have the answer.

I've been listening.

The fact that people are listening is what put Boulez in the history books.

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Originally Posted by firsty_ferret View Post
No disrespect or anything, but hasn't this thread gone slightly off the point for which it was intended?
Oh no. It's just secondary thematic development.... Haha.

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Originally Posted by Gardener View Post
Can we please stop discussing Boulez? Otherwise I feel constantly torn between not wishing to help derail this thread (since clearly Boulez has nothing to do with minimalism), and wanting to defend Boulez against "cheap" accusations.
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Boulez is an internationally acclaimed composer AND conductor, and he's in the history/theory books.
I think he can defend himself.

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Again, that's all my personal opinion, and I embrace the fact that there are people out there with differing views. But I draw the line at embracing philosophies of exclusivity: that is, I have trouble sympathising with viewpoints which dictate that my own be invalidated. It's a two way thing, after all.
Bam!

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I know that I like to take chances when I listen to music, go to concerts, etc. I listen to things I'm aware I may not like, but I listen to them anyways. To me it's part of the fun being surprised when something I thought was nonsense ends up having an effect. So, I try to write for people like me, who aren't afraid to go to a concert and just live the experience rather than hold prejudices for no reason.
And possibly because you want to enjoy hearing your music too?? After all, aren't you a part of your own audience, and a part that has a major effect on the music that gets written?
Personally I write stuff that I like, and if other people like it too, great. If not, oh well, at least I've satisfied myself.
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