Showdown In America: Part 2 - Barber vs. Schuman vs. Carter vs. Ruggles vs....

Started by Mirror Image, April 16, 2012, 06:42:59 PM

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Who do you prefer? Allowed up to three votes.

Barber
13 (41.9%)
Schuman
9 (29%)
Carter
5 (16.1%)
Piston
6 (19.4%)
Thomson
0 (0%)
Harris
2 (6.5%)
Still
0 (0%)
Persichetti
0 (0%)
Mennin
2 (6.5%)
Creston
1 (3.2%)
Diamond
8 (25.8%)
Bernstein
6 (19.4%)
Hovhaness
2 (6.5%)
Feldman
6 (19.4%)
Cage
2 (6.5%)
Babbitt
3 (9.7%)
Sessions
1 (3.2%)
Ruggles
3 (9.7%)

Total Members Voted: 31

Voting closed: July 09, 2012, 06:42:59 PM

Mirror Image


Sammy


Mirror Image

Quote from: Sammy on April 16, 2012, 08:01:31 PM
Sammy thinks it would be a fine idea to add Copland. ;D

Then Sammy should look at the first poll simply titled Showdown In America: Copland vs. Ives vs. Gershwin. :)

Sammy

Quote from: Mirror Image on April 17, 2012, 06:47:04 AM
Then Sammy should look at the first poll simply titled Showdown In America: Copland vs. Ives vs. Gershwin. :)

Okay.  Sammy's memory isn't as good as it used to be. :)

springrite

If I am allowed only one vote: Feldman


If I am allowed only two votes: add Carter

Since I am allowed three votes, I considered Diamond, Cage, but decided on Mennin.
Do what I must do, and let what must happen happen.

Sammy


springrite

Do what I must do, and let what must happen happen.

PaulSC

Quote from: springrite on April 17, 2012, 09:25:12 AM
If I am allowed only one vote: Feldman


If I am allowed only two votes: add Carter

Since I am allowed three votes, I considered Diamond, Cage, but decided on Mennin.
Our first- and second-place votes match (but in the opposite order)! For my third vote, I considered Mennin and Ruggles but went with Babbitt. (Ruggles might have come out ahead if he had written more...)
Musik ist ein unerschöpfliches Meer. — Joseph Riepel

Sergeant Rock

the phone rings and somebody says,
"hey, they made a movie about
Mahler, you ought to go see it.
he was as f*cked-up as you are."
                               --Charles Bukowski, "Mahler"


Lisztianwagner

"Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire." - Gustav Mahler

springrite

Do what I must do, and let what must happen happen.

madaboutmahler

Voted for Bernstein, Barber, and even though I know so little of his music, Schuman.

I still need to explore a few of the composers on this list.
"Music is ... A higher revelation than all Wisdom & Philosophy"
— Ludwig van Beethoven


Lisztianwagner

Quote from: springrite on April 17, 2012, 12:21:29 PM
Add Babbitt and you'd have the American Three B's

:)

I'm afraid I have to improve my knowledge of the other composers included in the list.
"Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire." - Gustav Mahler

Mirror Image

Schuman and Barber were almost automatic votes from me but when it came to a third vote I went with Diamond because I'm still highly impressed with his symphonies. Ask for my third choice on another day and I probably would have went with Piston.

Scion7

When, a few months before his death, Rachmaninov lamented that he no longer had the "strength and fire" to compose, friends reminded him of the Symphonic Dances, so charged with fire and strength. "Yes," he admitted. "I don't know how that happened. That was probably my last flicker."

Elnimio

Mennin, Diamond and yes, Creston.

Creston is very underrated here, it seems. No other American composer had  his rhythmic inventiveness and drive.

But then again, I am drawn to rhythmic energy while others aren't, so...

Also, that list is definitely missing George Rochberg, and perhaps Morton Gould.


Drasko


Elnimio

Carl Ruggles was great, but it's almost impossible to find his music in good quality, aside from Sun-Treader and Men and Mountains. He also did not write much at all, unfortunately.