I don't know how I forgot Rachmaninov, and I will concede that Gershwin and a few others should have been included.
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Originally posted by Provost Harrison
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Originally posted by Boris Godunov
Williams should be considered out of sheer prolificness, popularity and recognizeability.
Let's face it, John Williams did one brilliant score in Jaws and has since done a lot of damage to bring down film scores from their high point in the seventies by helping usher back constant music based on soaring strings.Världsstad - Dom lokala genrenas vän
Mick102, 102,3 Umeå, Måndagar 20-21
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Frank Zappa is great.
I'm also all about Eliot Del Borgo, Harry Greggson-Williams, Robert Smith, David Holsinger, Nuobo Uematsu, but... I don't know I'd probably give it to Duke Ellington just because I've played so much of his stuff and thought it was good.I never know their names, But i smile just the same
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Buck - did you even for one SECOND listen to his work in "Catch Me If You Can"? I think that it is Williams' best work yet!"mono has crazy flow and can rhyme words that shouldn't, like Eminem"
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I voted for Berg. Nobody would actually think he's best of anything, so obviously a vote for him is in place of the missing "banana" option.
Everyone I could think of wasn't really 20th century, such as Dvorak (who died in 1904 but probably didn't write or publish anything major in the 20th century).
Gershwin would get my vote. UAL used Rhapsody in Blue on commercials that played ceaselessly on the news channels. I never tired of it, but rather hungered for more than the bleeding, 30-second chunk cut from the flesh nearest the heart.
Ask next week it could be somebody else, but Gershwin is ear candy.(\__/) Save a bunny, eat more Smurf!
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Now, now, don't mention Songwriters. They're in a different, and much higher, category than mere composers.Världsstad - Dom lokala genrenas vän
Mick102, 102,3 Umeå, Måndagar 20-21
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Hey, if there was a device to wipe out Roger Waters from everyone's collective memory right now, I'd be right there repeatedly bashing the "go" button with my fist.Världsstad - Dom lokala genrenas vän
Mick102, 102,3 Umeå, Måndagar 20-21
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Originally posted by Straybow
Ask next week it could be somebody else, but Gershwin is ear candy.
If anything, Berg is far too intellectualized. He was quite dismayed to discover that his carefully-crafted atonalism, which was build on incredibly complex systems, was audibly indistinguishable from completely randomized atonal music.
That's why Schoenberg, the founding father of atonalism, abandoned it, declaring it a dead end.Tutto nel mondo è burla
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