Hey everyone.

[bluevelvet]

Hello GMG. My name is Josh and I have finally found a forum to call home again...and for my favorite type of music, no less! I have been an avid listener of what you would call "classical" music for a few years now. I am only 20 and my musical tastes already alienate me from anybody in my demographic so I am here to discuss my tastes with you. What a treat, right? Just so you know, I don't call it classical music I call it "art" music...so right away you should know I have an open mind in regards to the genre. Right now I am big on Norgard, Janacek, Silvestrov, Tveitt, and a bit of Scelsi. I like to think I know a lot about music since I compose in my spare time, but I agree that everything is relative and music means many things to many people. I hope to enjoy the future discussions that we have about everything I can input on. It's good to know I'm not alone in my modernist taste. 

[Hollywood]

Greetings from Austria Josh. Welcome to the forum. 

[bhodges]

Right now I am big on Norgard, Janacek, Silvestrov, Tveitt, and a bit of Scelsi.

Hi Josh, and welcome from NYC.  Great list of composers there!  You will find a number of people who love all of those, and many others from the 20th and 21st centuries as well.

--Bruce

[Benji]

That's one very interesting list! And yeah, a bit of Scelsi is about as much as any of us can handle. Even the hardest of hardcore types such as Bruce.  0:)

I love Aion - music to end the Universe with/to! 

See you around!

Ben (Mog)

[bhodges]

Even the hardest of hardcore types such as Bruce.  0:)

   

(Thanks, I may have to use that in my signature...)

--Bruce

[Dundonnell]

Welcome aboard

Tveitt, eh?  Interesting!  I have just bought but not yet listened to Tveitt's big dance/cantanta 'Baldur's Dream'. Will post my impressions in due course. Silvestrov too? BIS is about to embark on recording a Silvestrov series. Should be fascinating!

[bluevelvet]

BIS doing Silvestrov? That's fantastic news for sure. Thanks for all the welcome guys. I just recently listened to Norgard's 7th and I am hoping for that to come out on CD soon because I enjoyed it tremendously. As you can tell I like composer's who have a distinct style. See you around the forum. 

[DavidRoss]

Welcome, Josh!  If you call it "art music" instead of "classical music," then how do you distinguish classical music from jazz and other forms of art music?  Or do you?

[bluevelvet]

Well I guess it's all "art" in some form or another. You can recognize jazz by calling it jazz, or subdividing it into little categories like freeform or acid. "Classical" to me has always referred to a time period rather than an actual description of orchestral/instrumental music. I think too many people are used to calling music without lyrics or electronics "classical". Leonard Bernstein used to call it "interpretive" music...which also works. I could say I'm into minimalism, post-modernism, serialism, neoromanticism, polystylism, totalism...but what good does that do me? To you guys maybe it helps, but I call it art music because in every time period the music has been written as a statement...sometimes a statement of society, counter-society, culture, sub-culture, or even a statement of a statement...or maybe just randomness. Jazz is art music, yes, but I refer to it as jazz....and I do like jazz, too. When referring to a specific composer or time period I will use the appropriate label. Appropriate being what the people around me can agree on.

[Renfield]

I just recently listened to Norgard's 7th and I am hoping for that to come out on CD soon because I enjoyed it tremendously.

I just ordered it.

Also, welcome aboard, from one 20-year-old to another! If nothing else, you'll be able to represent our generation much more ably than myself, in terms of progressive taste and appreciation of the musically original. I'm still "stuck" around the 1900s, by and large!

[bluevelvet]

Well hey! I'll do my best, haha. And hot damn I am ordering that CD!!

[Renfield]

Well hey! I'll do my best, haha. And hot damn I am ordering that CD!!

I think it literally came out last week. I bumped into it while looking for the 6th Symphony (which I also ordered!) - though there was a discussion about the 7th here that had me keeping an eye open for the combination of "Nørgard", "Symphony", "Dausgaard" and "7".

[zamyrabyrd]

...the music has been written as a statement...sometimes a statement of society, counter-society, culture, sub-culture, or even a statement of a statement...

"Statement of statement"... I like that. You're only 20?!?! Very astute. Welcome.
ZB

[Renfield]

"Statement of statement"... I like that.

Is a statement of statement a statement qua statement, or a statement of something being stated, though? If we're going to be correctly postmodern about it, we might as well clarify our terminology a bit!

[Kuhlau]

Hi there.

Hope you enjoy the party. The beer in the garage is coldest.

FK

[jchen]

welcome!! 

[Harry]

Hello and welcome from Holland.

[Que]

Hello and welcome from Holland.

Ditto! (Yes, from Holland as well. )

Q

[Jay F]

Hi, Josh. I'm in Pittsburgh. How about you?