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The Well Tuned Piano by LaMonte Young and People Got a Lotta Nerve by Neko Case

Now that I think about it (and I'm not trying to judge, to each his own), but isn't the term "cool wind ensemble piece" a bit of an oxymoron :P

get drunk and go clubbing. that's where this song is actually useful. no it's not unique or complex or earthshaking, but if I've got a little booze in me, it makes me want to get crunk, goddammit.

One and eight. And nine, not so much because I think it's the best, but I really take an inexplicable liking to composers' last symphonies.

I hope the creators of MacGamut die childless and alone. Our ear training class had a CD breaking party after we were done with it.

Death and Transfiguration by Strauss Symphony No. 4 by Brahms Oboe Concerto in C minor by Marcello St. Matthew Passion by Bach and Beethoven's Choral Fantasy

Ah! Well, I guess I didn't get the memo.

I've never been able to use red string. It reminds me of those god-awful Jones reeds that you play on when you're a beginner.

Okay, not really. But what is your favorite string color to use when making reeds? I have this really nice neon pink and also a hunter green that I've become quite fond of recently.

Child's Garden of Dreams by Maslanka is amazing. I don't know if it falls into levels 2-5 though I don't know that much about the grading system.

I agree to a certain extent. I know in the past, I've asked my friends to play my stuff and I'll hand them a graphic score or something and they'll just be like, "what the hell is this?" but I think that re-education is fun! and necessary to progress the evolution of music.

Because I don't want to use it! That's the best reason of all, isn't it? :)

I'm a big silence fan! And (at the expense of ostracizing myself), I'm also a big 4'33" and John Cage fan. My favorite use of silence, though, would have to be the clarinet solo movement of Messiaen's Quartet for the End of Time. If it's a good clarinet player, it's unreal how smoothly they transition from silence to playing a reeeeeeeeeeallly quiet note.

Yeah, I understand where you're coming from. Generally my composing isn't concerned with the actual notes being produced so I've just really never found traditional notation useful.

Is anyone else a fan? Not that staves and notes aren't a simple, useful way to notate, just sometimes it's not the best way.