Quiz: Mystery scores

[lukeottevanger]

Then you need to take that toothy smiley to the dentist...

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

Then you need to take that toothy smiley to the dentist...

[karlhenning]

. . . an absolutely Fantastick record.

Gratuitous tangent, but one of my high school English teachers was in the original Broadway cast, and on the old LP of the o.B.c. recording, he was in a photo on the back cover.

[karlhenning]

What a marvel the Internet is! — There he is:  Bellamy — Hugh Thomas

[BachQ]

Did Sean delete his account?

[(poco) Sforzando]

Did Sean delete his account?

You're surprised?

Is 240 Turnage?

[karlhenning]

Luke, check PM!

[lukeottevanger]

@ Sfz.

No. Turnage is jazz influenced, certainly, but I don't think he's ever been a jazz-player as this composer, who is quite a bit older, once was. (A very good one, too). Nor was he ever a signed-up and prominent member of the 'Experimental Music scene'. Nowadays his music still bears strong traces of both the jazz and the experimentalism, if you know where to look, but it has a consistent surface beauty and calm which makes for easier listening than either of them.

@ Karl

I have - I'm working and want to get home to check my files before I answer. But, briefly - I put a revised verson of the score up at the Outpost a while ago, and I'm waiting for your clarinetly feedback on it. I think (though, as I say, I need to check) I'm happy with it. Will get back to you more definitively later on....

[(poco) Sforzando]

@ Sfz.

No. Turnage is jazz influenced, certainly, but I don't think he's ever been a jazz-player as this composer, who is quite a bit older, once was. (A very good one, too). Nor was he ever a signed-up and prominent member of the 'Experimental Music scene'. Nowadays his music still bears strong traces of both the jazz and the experimentalism, if you know where to look, but it has a consistent surface beauty and calm which makes for easier listening than either of them.

Gavin Bryars?

[lukeottevanger]

Indeed

[(poco) Sforzando]

Indeed

Mr. Sunshine  0:)

[lukeottevanger]

Yes! - chronologically, it's first on the list at the GB website, isn't it?

[lukeottevanger]

How 'bout posting a few yourself, Karl? 

Seconded - I've got nothing left to guess at now! 

[greg]

How 'bout posting a few yourself, Karl?

yes........ there's a Diabolic Suggestion.

[Guido]

Here's another little one to be getting along with. Really beautiful piece.

[lukeottevanger]

Is that the Vaughan Williams Romance for viola and piano?

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

Luke, you're right...

http://www.amazon.com/Romances-Elegies-Viola-Benjamin-Britten/dp/B0000261H6

Second track.

[lukeottevanger]

Excellent. It was just an educated guess, as I've not heard the piece, but I knew he wrote such a thing, and confirmed that it was an Andantino. Plus, the piece sounds like VW from the off!

[(poco) Sforzando]

It had that bland, pastoral, ever so slightly (but not really) dissonant cowpatch quality I love so much about him . . . . 

[lukeottevanger]

Now, now, don't be such a bad boy.  I prescribe a dose of RVW 4

What is a 'dissonant cowpatch', anyway?