10 favourite American composers

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springrite

#120
December 13, 2020, 03:38:18 PM Last Edit: December 13, 2020, 03:41:57 PM by springrite
Quote from: Mirror Image on December 13, 2020, 03:33:12 PM
No love for William Schuman?
Minimal...
Do what I must do, and let what must happen happen.

Mirror Image

#121
December 13, 2020, 03:40:49 PM
Quote from: springrite on December 13, 2020, 03:38:18 PM
Minimal...

Hmmm...that's quite interesting as I have no love for Mennin at all, but I know he's well-liked on this forum.

springrite

#122
December 13, 2020, 03:42:10 PM
Quote from: Mirror Image on December 13, 2020, 03:40:49 PM
Hmmm...that's quite interesting as I have no love for Mennin at all, but I know he's well-liked on this forum.
I also like Piston, Persichetti and Dello Joio better.
Do what I must do, and let what must happen happen.

Mirror Image

#123
December 13, 2020, 04:07:26 PM
Quote from: springrite on December 13, 2020, 03:42:10 PM
I also like Piston, Persichetti and Dello Joio better.

Piston wrote some good works. The Incredible Flutist is up there with the Copland ballets, which says a lot considering how much I love those ballets from Copland. I'm less keen on Persichetti and Dello Joio.

Symphonic Addict

#124
December 13, 2020, 04:11:28 PM
Quote from: springrite on December 13, 2020, 03:42:10 PM
I also like Piston, Persichetti and Dello Joio better.

Dello Joio, yes!
The current annihilation of a people on this planet (you know which one it is) is the most documented and at the same time the most preposterously denied. The terror IS REAL!

Symphonic Addict

#125
December 13, 2020, 04:16:37 PM
Quote from: Mirror Image on December 13, 2020, 04:07:26 PM
Piston wrote some good works. The Incredible Flutist is up there with the Copland ballets, which says a lot considering how much I love those ballets from Copland. I'm less keen on Persichetti and Dello Joio.

+1 for Persichetti. I haven't heard enough yet, though.
The current annihilation of a people on this planet (you know which one it is) is the most documented and at the same time the most preposterously denied. The terror IS REAL!

Mirror Image

#126
December 13, 2020, 06:35:07 PM
Quote from: Symphonic Addict on December 13, 2020, 04:16:37 PM
+1 for Persichetti. I haven't heard enough yet, though.

I didn't give Persichetti the thumbs up. :-\

vandermolen

#127
December 14, 2020, 12:12:25 AM
Quote from: Mirror Image on December 13, 2020, 03:40:49 PM
Hmmm...that's quite interesting as I have no love for Mennin at all, but I know he's well-liked on this forum.
I've never got on with Mennin either. +1 for Schuman, especially symphonies 3 and 6 and the New England Triptych and for Piston's Second Symphony which I like very much.
"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm" (Churchill).

'The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good' (Stanley Kubrick).

Mirror Image

#128
December 14, 2020, 08:11:41 AM
Quote from: vandermolen on December 14, 2020, 12:12:25 AM
I've never got on with Mennin either. +1 for Schuman, especially symphonies 3 and 6 and the New England Triptych and for Piston's Second Symphony which I like very much.

Yeah, I can't quite put my finger on what it is about his music that I don't like, but it just never has resonated with me.

Pohjolas Daughter

#129
December 14, 2020, 02:01:57 PM
Quote from: vandermolen on December 07, 2020, 04:08:06 AM
I think that I'm one of the few who like Harris on this forum. Don't they say that prophets are never appreciated in their homeland?  ;D
From what I remember, I enjoyed his third symphony with Koussevitzky (from Great Conductors of the 20th century series).   :)

PD

vandermolen

#130
December 14, 2020, 09:51:18 PM Last Edit: December 14, 2020, 09:56:35 PM by vandermolen
Quote from: Pohjolas Daughter on December 14, 2020, 02:01:57 PM
From what I remember, I enjoyed his third symphony with Koussevitzky (from Great Conductors of the 20th century series).   :)

PD

I also like Bernstein's CBS/Sony recording (best of all IMO) and also the underrated Jarvi version on Chandos. Recently I acquired a very good Ormandy recording (live from Russia):
"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm" (Churchill).

'The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good' (Stanley Kubrick).

Scion7

#131
December 14, 2020, 10:03:25 PM
Roy Harris?  Of course!  Solid composer.
Saint-Saëns, who predicted to Charles Lecocq in 1901: 'That fellow Ravel seems to me to be destined for a serious future.'

Pohjolas Daughter

#132
December 15, 2020, 04:34:24 AM
Quote from: vandermolen on December 14, 2020, 09:51:18 PM
I also like Bernstein's CBS/Sony recording (best of all IMO) and also the underrated Jarvi version on Chandos. Recently I acquired a very good Ormandy recording (live from Russia):

Jeffrey,

Your picture of that Bernstein CD got me thinking.  I remembered that I have this set (which I need to work through):



And the front cover:



PD

MusicTurner

#133
December 15, 2020, 12:18:01 PM
Hovhaness
Copland
Barber
Crumb
Rochberg
Perle
Carter
Cowell
C-Seeger
Dlugoszewski

vandermolen

#134
December 16, 2020, 12:44:45 PM
Quote from: Pohjolas Daughter on December 15, 2020, 04:34:24 AM
Jeffrey,

Your picture of that Bernstein CD got me thinking.  I remembered that I have this set (which I need to work through):



And the front cover:



PD
Great set PD, which includes the best Harris Symphony 3 IMO and Diamond's fine 4th Symphony as well.
"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm" (Churchill).

'The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good' (Stanley Kubrick).

TheGSMoeller

#135
June 05, 2021, 05:06:42 PM
Quote from: TheGSMoeller on July 20, 2016, 06:58:38 AM
Charles Ives
Philip Glass
David Lang
Paul Schoenfield
Ingram Marshall
Ben Johnston
Steve Reich

Meredith Monk
Missy Mazzoli
Caroline Shaw
John Adams
John Corigliano

For some reason I couldn't choose 10 composers back when I first posted this. But there are a few changes since then.

Cato

#136
June 05, 2021, 05:22:38 PM
To remind people of certain composers again:

Quote from: Cato on July 20, 2016, 03:56:16 AM
A very honorable mention!!!  8)

I am surprised nobody has yet included...Bernard Herrmann!

Alphabetically...(and more than 10)

George Antheil

Samuel Barber

Easley Blackwood

Elliott Carter

Aaron Copland

George Crumb

Louis Gottschalk

Lou Harrison

Karl Henning

Bernard Herrmann

Charles Ives

Ben Johnston

Jerome Moross

Harry Partch

George Rochberg

Carl Ruggles

John Phillips Sousa

Charles Wuorinen


I was accused by former member Ken B. of an inability to count to 10.  But I usually violate such rules!   8)


Henry Cowell was mentioned earlier:


https://www.youtube.com/v/7BTDRYkfiqw


https://www.youtube.com/v/TXlMOmy00Sc
"Meet Miss Ruth Sherwood, from Columbus, Ohio, the Middle of the Universe!"

- Brian Aherne introducing Rosalind Russell in  My Sister Eileen (1942)

Symphonic Addict

#137
June 05, 2021, 06:59:54 PM
Hanson
Schuman
Copland
Barber
Bernstein
Adams
Rouse
Hovhaness
Antheil
Creston
The current annihilation of a people on this planet (you know which one it is) is the most documented and at the same time the most preposterously denied. The terror IS REAL!

Mirror Image

#138
June 05, 2021, 07:47:23 PM
Quote from: Symphonic Addict on June 05, 2021, 06:59:54 PM
Hanson
Schuman
Copland
Barber
Bernstein
Adams
Rouse
Hovhaness
Antheil
Creston

No love for David Diamond?!?!? :o

TheGSMoeller

#139
June 05, 2021, 07:58:29 PM
Quote from: Cato on June 05, 2021, 05:22:38 PM
To remind people of certain composers again:


[b

I forgot Crumb!

new list...

Charles Ives
Philip Glass
David Lang
Ingram Marshall   
Steve Reich
Meredith Monk
Missy Mazzoli
George Crumb
John Adams
John Corigliano
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