1950 to 2000

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hs7pZMMI5hE   Symphony no. 2 'Ricordanze'

Usually found 'lurking' in this thread rather than contributing, but have found in Wilhelm Killmayer a 'modern' composer I can really enjoy. Anyone have any thoughts, or recommendations of others similar ?
Thanks !

I listened to this clip many times, but I am still not sure how I feel about it. I checked his other works on youtube. They are so strange, but some works with piano are nice and easy on the ear. I think his music is very unique and I cannot think of composers similar to him, but my knowledge of music is superficial. Thank you for sharing it.

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Lejaren Hiller (1924-1994) - String Quartet No. 5 "In quarter-tones" (1962)

https://www.youtube.com/v/gl-alVf6Ujo https://www.youtube.com/v/u_zka8aCtKg https://www.youtube.com/v/7nv79aiFGOU

He was a chemist and a composer, known as a pioneer of computer music. He studied with Roger Sessions and Milton Babbitt. In 1969 he realized HPSCHD collaborating with John Cage.

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Stephen Whittington - Legend (1988) for two partially prepared pianos

https://www.youtube.com/v/tpsVjBdPUbM

Whittington was born in Adelaide, South Australia, in 1953. [...] An extended stay in California in 1987 proved a powerful stimulus to his work, particularly after meeting John Cage at CalArts. On returning to Australia he began composing in a new style that combined elements of minimalism, polystylism and chance procedures. [...] A major outcome of this was the score for two partially prepared pianos Legend, written for a contemporary dance work by David Roche.

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For the evening: Bernard Rands
...sans voix parmi les voix... (1995), for flute, harp & viola

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Bgl365MqwU

Beautiful. The instrumentation reminded me of Bax's chamber music CD on Naxos.

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Tôn Thât Tiet (born 1933) - Moments rituels II (1992) for 12 saxophones

https://www.youtube.com/v/YzxwuZTRMD0

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*puts on James mask*


I said this on the listening thread the other day, but it got washed away as usual by the influx of posts there. I'd recommend Stockhausen's "Tierkreis" for anyone who doesn't like the sputtering serialist sound of "Gruppen" or electronic sounds of "Kontakte". It has some very nice and lyrical orchestral writing and I would have never guessed it was by Stockhausen. It's modern, but it isn't weird at all (no special effects, vocals, etc.).
http://www.youtube.com/v/718J9pmDFZM

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Barbara Monk Feldman - THE NORTHERN SHORE (1997)

https://www.youtube.com/v/fNe--G1Wygs

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Barbara Monk Feldman studied with Morton Feldman, then she was married to him. Her music is quiet, Ambient-like (sometimes it reminds me of Eno), and of course there is an influence of Morton Feldman, but it is more accessible than his works. The solo piano work IN THE SMALL TIME OF A DESERT FLOWER (2000) is equally beautiful.

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This:
http://www.youtube.com/v/JY5M7TJfWu8

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Daniel Lentz - Is It Love (1984)

https://www.youtube.com/v/tM2FnpxqvKg

The works for singers and keyboards in the complete 10-inch series from cold blue CB0014 (reissue of 10-inch vinyl albums released in the early 1980s) are so lovely. And this CD single (los tigres de marte CB0016, 2003) is otherworldly beautiful.

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Jim Fox

The City the Wind Swept Away, for four trombones, piano and string quartet (1982)
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Black Water, for three pianos (1984)
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Last Things, for bass clarinet, pedal steel guitar, piano, and electronic keyboards (1987)
The Copy of the Drawing, whispering voice and electronics (1992)
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Jim Fox started Cold Blue label in the early 1980s. The label focuses on West Coast minimalism and post-minimalism, is "an invaluable resource for [...] the new 'California School'" (Joan LaBarbara), defines "a certain 'Southern California sound'" (L.A.Weekly).

He is one of my favorite Cold Blue composers.  The music is generally slow, introversive, and quite beautiful. I like The City the Wind Swept Away the most (it's like ambient music of Eno/Budd), and the others are very good as well. These are CD single albums (15-22 min) except Last Things.

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I went to see David Tudor's Rainforest IV at the Yokoo Tadanori museum in Kobe. I thought this was going to be some kind of interactive thing. Instead, they had people kind of penned in on a concrete floor in a small lobby: looking at what? Well, there was no dance (I guess this was originally for a Cunningham piece) so they're just looking at some guys sitting at computers...a very uncomfortable situation.
I don't know...I guess I just don't like pointlessness, physical pain and uncreative presentation. I sense that Tudor's music may be interesting. But this seemed like a bullshit scenario to me. So I asked for a refund and left.
There's a lot of irony in the museum world. Maybe it's that in this situation they are more focused on themselves than the experience of the audience. I look at people and everyone looks like they're working hard to pretend they're enjoying it.
Alright, I'm done complaining.