umum_cypher Posted June 9, 2008 Report Posted June 9, 2008 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7443651.stm In my wildest imagination I can't picture a composer whose music is less suited to the subject matter! Quote
DTMX Posted June 10, 2008 Report Posted June 10, 2008 Maybe they were looking through the Yellow Pages for a "serious composer" and they found Wuorinen under "serialist composer". I've always wondered what a twelve-tone Oklahoma! would sound like. Quote
clifford_thornton Posted June 10, 2008 Report Posted June 10, 2008 "Time's Encomium" = "I tried so hard to quit you!" Quote
7/4 Posted June 10, 2008 Report Posted June 10, 2008 I've always wondered what a twelve-tone Oklahoma! would sound like. Milton Babbitt? I hear he was into show tunes...no kidding. . Quote
umum_cypher Posted June 11, 2008 Author Report Posted June 11, 2008 I've always wondered what a twelve-tone Oklahoma! would sound like. Milton Babbitt? I hear he was into show tunes...no kidding. Yep. Alan Forte too. That says something ... not entirely sure what, but something Quote
Larry Kart Posted June 11, 2008 Report Posted June 11, 2008 I'm thinking it should have been John Adams -- or better, no one. BTW, has there ever been an opera based on Les Liaisons Dangereuses? Seems like a natural to me. Quote
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