5 Worst Composers Ever!!

[Cato]

Cato, having perused, in a very bemused fashion  , the last 12 pages of this topic, is extremely, exodontically, and exophthalmically
shocked       schocked       SCHOCKED          

that the name Ferde Grofe has not yet appeared!!!   

But I digress from the topic, which is to name the 5 Worst Composers Ever!   0:)

Cato knows who they are: they are the Music Professors who between 1950 and 1980 composed serial/multi-media works and used the indentured servitude of their graduate students to be both the performers and audience for their inky exertions, for which said professors should have been publicly bull-whipped and sent to a monastery in Peru to meditate on their musical sins and listen to Chico's Andean Flute Choir 37 hours a day.

[Luke]

I just want to register my distaste for this thread, as well as, any "worst of" threads.

Yep. But I'd say this is probably the worst of them. Should we have a poll?

[MN Dave]

Ladies and gentlemen,

The five worst composers ever!

[snyprrr]

I just want to register my distaste for this thread, as well as, any "worst of" threads.

Cato, having perused, in a very bemused fashion   , the last 12 pages of this topic, is extremely, exodontically, and exophthalmically
shocked      schocked      SCHOCKED          

that the name Ferde Grofe has not yet appeared!!!  

But I digress from the topic, which is to name the 5 Worst Composers Ever!   0:)

Cato knows who they are: they are the Music Professors who between 1950 and 1980 composed serial/multi-media works and used the indentured servitude of their graduate students to be both the performers and audience for their inky exertions, for which said professors should have been publicly bull-whipped and sent to a monastery in Peru to meditate on their musical sins and listen to Chico's Andean Flute Choir 37 hours a day.

You're a GENIUS!!!

Yes,...how dare they!!! Where are they now?... with all yer Pulitzer Prizes???...

Ferdy Grofe,...astutissimo!!!



I'll be honest. I've been listening to ClassicalEra music since May now, collecting one SQ album after another, by different composers, just waiting for that "Classical fatigue" to set, and for one of these composers to really really SUCK,... and it just hasn't happened yet. They all seem to have at least the same ability, and they ALL have nice little turns of phrase that keep you going. Oh, sure, they will ALL make you fall asleep, if you are so inclined, but, if one listens, one will hear... SOMETHING! Even the universally maligned Ditters gets it as well as anyone else.

I mean, HOW do you make an SQ in "g minor" SUCK??? Can't be done, as far as I can see. Please correct me.



I did notice, Cato, how you were want to NAME anyone of these offenders, haha? How politically correct, haha! But, then again, we all KNOW of whom thou speakest... could Donald Martino be on that list? I, personally, kind of like that arid stuff now and then to cleanse the palate... Mel Powell, Helps, Shifrin, Berger, Sims, Adler, Shapey, oh, sorry, but just about any jewish name will do, haha... ahhh, Goldstein, Levy, Zukerman, Feldtsman, Fleischman,... the great pantheon of... oy, haha... Kupferman, Meyerson, Sonnerson,...

yea, they CAN suck, can't they?!!?!!



And why, Franco, are you offended? LET the sucksters suck. Give a man the freedom to bore, and exasperate, and suck. There is no one who sucks who can hide in the shadows, and not have their life draining toil exposed for the hi-jinx it is. Can we have just a shred, a touch, of objectivity, or MUST we by dictate of the State accept EVERYONE.... must we give everyone a gold star just for trying?

I have baby feelings, too, and I get hurt, too. But, if I suck, don't let me get away with it.



Is there a difference between opinions and convictions?

[ChamberNut]

Mozart sucks!

[CD]

Artistic truth, anyway  0:)

I actually thought of saying that after I left. L'espirit du escalier!

[ChamberNut]

Ah...when in doubt, start some trouble!

1) Philip Glass
2) Terry Riley
3)
4) anyone influenced by Richard Strauss (Strauss waltzes incl. by default)
5) H. Gorecki (Sym No.3 and Harpsichord Cto. notwithstanding)

There...I feel better now...and you?

Snyprrr, why did you leave the 3rd choice blank? Is it just one of those 'snipperisms' that is best not to bring up? 

[Franco]

And why, Franco, are you offended? LET the sucksters suck. Give a man the freedom to bore, and exasperate, and suck. There is no one who sucks who can hide in the shadows, and not have their life draining toil exposed for the hi-jinx it is. Can we have just a shred, a touch, of objectivity, or MUST we by dictate of the State accept EVERYONE.... must we give everyone a gold star just for trying?

I did not say I was "offended"; I registered my distaste for this thread.   And while I don't suggest giving out gold stars for effort, no composer sets out to bore, exasperate and suck.

Don't you have something better to do than lampoon composers whose music you don't like?

[Cato]

Don't you have something better to do than lampoon composers whose music you don't like?

Did not Mozart lampoon the Ed Wood composer wannabes of his day with his Ein Musikalischer Spaß?  (K. 522)

[karlhenning]

Did not Mozart Lucchesi lampoon the Ed Wood composer wannabes of his day with his Ein Musikalischer Spaß?  (K. 522)

[Emended.]

[Franco]

Did not Mozart lampoon the Ed Wood composer wannabes of his day with his Ein Musikalischer Spaß?  (K. 522)

Excuse me, I did not know you were on a par with Mozart.

[Cato]

Excuse me, I did not know you were on a par with Mozart.

Number One:  I did not found the topic!

Number Two: Now you know!   0:)

[karlhenning]

Right: not knowing is no disgrace.

The disgrace, is being ineducable.

[stlukesguild]

But I digress from the topic, which is to name the 5 Worst Composers Ever!   angel

Cato knows who they are: they are the Music Professors who between 1950 and 1980 composed serial/multi-media works and used the indentured servitude of their graduate students to be both the performers and audience for their inky exertions, for which said professors should have been publicly bull-whipped and sent to a monastery in Peru to meditate on their musical sins and listen to Chico's Andean Flute Choir 37 hours a day.

Indeed!

[Guido]

Say it aint so ' !

[Guido]

Fair enough, I'll just consign my Sibelius Cds to the flame tomorrow, but not before the Wagner and Orff ones.

[Cato]

It must be so!  Because really: How can you argue with an apostrophe?

Hmmm!  Wait a minute!  The answer is so obvious!


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So there!    '         '

[Guido]

Rachmaninov makes good coffee mug coasters.

[Luke]

Now hang on, if M were here wouldn't he be on about the v=ff issue?

That's right, Guido, it's covee, not coffee, you fool.....

[Brian]

Snyprrr, why did you leave the 3rd choice blank? Is it just one of those 'snipperisms' that is best not to bring up? 

The blank choice means John Cage