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Hmmmm, I dunno. There's a lot of non "fluid" baroque music in existence as well. If one limits one's listening to the top 5 or 6 composers of an almost 140 year time frame one is missing a lot of the variety that was truly present during the baroque period. To my ears BE's work had a lot in common with a more English style of writing, part of that of course coming from purely choosing to use English for the singers :-) That said though it definitely had a vibe much in common with Handel and Purcell etc. And though perhaps the singing wasn't dead on flawless I admire that such a recording as this exists at all. I certainly know from experience that I never had the number of people involved to pull off the recording take any kind of interest in my baroque music when I was in school, let alone being able to organize them, rehearse them and get a recording made. It all had to take a lot of work and the result is great. Live performance of new period music is DEFINITELY the way to go. By the way BE have you checked out the MP3's of Miguel Robaina's ensemble playing his music at: http://www.voxsaeculorum.org/roster.htm Its the live performance that makes this new old music truly live! Again I look forward to hearing more stuff soon! grant

Hi there BE, That's some good stuff you got going there. I can't remember if I replied in this thread or in an old one you may never see, but I'm one of the composers who's listed at the Vox Saeculorum site and was told by Mark to check out your music. NICE JOB! I look forward to seeing/hearing more of your music in the future. Grant Colburn p.s. Like you said and I completely agree this certainly can be and IS your primary musical voice. I for one wouldn't consider it to be an imitation of Bach or any particular composer. It is YOU being you just as Bach was Bach, Handel was Handel, and Greene was Greene... It wouldn't make any sense to study one particular person from a time period alone....

Hello BE, I gave a listen to part of your Chorale earlier and its very nice work indeed! My name is Grant and I am also a member of Vox Saeculorum. Its nice to have another member join. I'm curious where you get all these people together to try out and record your music. Its a very admirable achievement to say the least. I myself pretty musch stick to writing keyboard music and have self published 3 books with 2 other soon to be on the way. I hope yo hear from your further. Keep up the great work, Grant