10 favourite American composers

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ComposerOfAvantGarde

July 19, 2016, 08:15:10 PM
who are they?

Currently for me..........

Elliott Carter
Gloria Coates
Morton Feldman
John Cage
Charles Ives
Pauline Oliveros
Carl Ruggles
Conlon Nancarrow
Harry Partch
George Antheil

North Star

#1
July 20, 2016, 01:37:36 AM Last Edit: July 20, 2016, 02:27:50 AM by North Star
Charles Ives
Aaron Copland
Morton Feldman
George Gershwin
Samuel Barber
Elliott Carter
Leonard Bernstein
William Schuman
Karl Henning
John Cage
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ritter

#2
July 20, 2016, 01:41:18 AM
Yet again, I cannot make it to 10  :-[ :

- Elliott Carter
- George Crumb
- Charles Ives
- Carl Ruggles
- Charles Wuorinen
- Roger Sessions
- Ruth Crawford Seeger

Autumn Leaves

#3
July 20, 2016, 01:45:00 AM
Hovhaness
Copland
Corigliano
Glass
Reich
Adams
Riley
Ives
Daugherty
Barber

ComposerOfAvantGarde

#4
July 20, 2016, 02:15:26 AM
Quote from: ritter on July 20, 2016, 01:41:18 AM

- Ruth Crawford Seeger[/b]
oh dear, if only I allowed for 11 then she would definitely have been on my list!

springrite

#5
July 20, 2016, 02:23:17 AM
Feldman
Carter
Barber
Wuroinen
Harrison
MacDowell
Griffes
Piston
Cage
Henning


Honorable mention: Harry Partch!
Do what I must do, and let what must happen happen.

ComposerOfAvantGarde

#6
July 20, 2016, 03:47:40 AM
Quote from: jessop on July 19, 2016, 08:15:10 PM
who are they?

Currently for me..........

Elliott Carter
Gloria Coates
Morton Feldman
John Cage
Charles Ives
Pauline Oliveros
Carl Ruggles
Conlon Nancarrow
Harry Partch
George Antheil


I realise I need to amend my list because of some composers I didn't think of at the time..........

Elliott Carter
Gloria Coates
Morton Feldman
George Crumb
John Cage
Milton Babbitt
Charles Ives
Pauline Oliveros
Charles Wuorinen
Carl Ruggles

Cato

#7
July 20, 2016, 03:56:16 AM
Quote from: springrite on July 20, 2016, 02:23:17 AM


Honorable mention: Harry Partch!

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
"Meet Miss Ruth Sherwood, from Columbus, Ohio, the Middle of the Universe!"

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

Sergeant Rock

#8
July 20, 2016, 04:19:22 AM
Ives
Diamond
Harris
Bernstein
Ruggles
Antheil
Herrmann
Barber
Gershwin
Korngold (a naturalized American citizen; he composed his most famous film scores after permanently settling in America, and composed the Symphony, Violin and Cello Concertos after he became a citizen)
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"

Cato

#9
July 20, 2016, 04:53:10 AM
Quote from: Sergeant Rock on July 20, 2016, 04:19:22 AM

Korngold (a naturalized American citizen; he composed his most famous film scores after permanently settling in America, and composed the Symphony, Violin and Cello Concertos after he became a citizen)

Good eye!  ;)
"Meet Miss Ruth Sherwood, from Columbus, Ohio, the Middle of the Universe!"

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

Brian

#10
July 20, 2016, 05:54:11 AM
alpha:
Barber
Bernstein
Ellington
Gershwin
Mingus
Monk

in order:
6. Barber
5. Bernstein
4. Monk
3. Ellington
2. Gershwin
1. Mingus

Karl Henning

#11
July 20, 2016, 06:15:19 AM
Quote from: jessop on July 19, 2016, 08:15:10 PM
who are they?

Currently for me..........

Elliott Carter
Gloria Coates
Morton Feldman
John Cage
Charles Ives
Pauline Oliveros
Carl Ruggles
Conlon Nancarrow
Harry Partch
George Antheil

No Wuorinen?  Really?

I give you:  the Mass for the Restoration of St Luke in the Fields

http://www.youtube.com/v/lSsw-H_3DoE
Karl Henning, Ph.D.
Composer & Clarinetist
Boston MA
http://www.karlhenning.com/
[Matisse] was interested neither in fending off opposition,
nor in competing for the favor of wayward friends.
His only competition was with himself. — Françoise Gilot

Karl Henning

#12
July 20, 2016, 06:16:34 AM
Quote from: North Star on July 20, 2016, 01:37:36 AM
Charles Ives
Aaron Copland
Morton Feldman
George Gershwin
Samuel Barber
Elliott Carter
Leonard Bernstein
William Schuman
Karl Henning
John Cage

Quote from: springrite on July 20, 2016, 02:23:17 AM
Feldman
Carter
Barber
Wuroinen
Harrison
MacDowell
Griffes
Piston
Cage
Henning


Honorable mention: Harry Partch!


Thank you both.
Karl Henning, Ph.D.
Composer & Clarinetist
Boston MA
http://www.karlhenning.com/
[Matisse] was interested neither in fending off opposition,
nor in competing for the favor of wayward friends.
His only competition was with himself. — Françoise Gilot

Mirror Image

#13
July 20, 2016, 06:34:52 AM
Let's see...

(In no particular order)

Barber
Copland
Ives
Schuman
Diamond
Harrison
Hovhaness
Piston
Ellington
Monk

Karl Henning

#14
July 20, 2016, 06:35:11 AM
Quote from: Brian on July 20, 2016, 05:54:11 AM
alpha:
Barber
Bernstein
Ellington
Gershwin
Mingus
Monk

in order:
6. Barber
5. Bernstein
4. Monk
3. Ellington
2. Gershwin
1. Mingus

I've listened to some Monk or other every day for at least two weeks now.

Just saying.
Karl Henning, Ph.D.
Composer & Clarinetist
Boston MA
http://www.karlhenning.com/
[Matisse] was interested neither in fending off opposition,
nor in competing for the favor of wayward friends.
His only competition was with himself. — Françoise Gilot

TheGSMoeller

#15
July 20, 2016, 06:58:38 AM
Charles Ives
Philip Glass
David Lang
Paul Schoenfield
Ingram Marshall
Ben Johnston
Steve Reich

Archaic Torso of Apollo

#16
July 20, 2016, 08:17:51 AM
First tier:

Ives
Schuman
Piston
Carter

Second tier:

J. Adams
Rochberg
Nancarrow
Barber
Gershwin
Reich
formerly VELIMIR (before that, Spitvalve)

"Who knows not strict counterpoint, lives and dies an ignoramus" - CPE Bach

ComposerOfAvantGarde

#17
July 20, 2016, 06:30:39 PM
Quote from: karlhenning on July 20, 2016, 06:15:19 AM
No Wuorinen?  Really?

I give you:  the Mass for the Restoration of St Luke in the Fields

http://www.youtube.com/v/lSsw-H_3DoE
I amended my list. Shameful thing to skip Wuorinen!

amw

#18
July 20, 2016, 08:34:02 PM
Quote from: Sergeant Rock on July 20, 2016, 04:19:22 AM
Korngold (a naturalized American citizen; he composed his most famous film scores after permanently settling in America, and composed the Symphony, Violin and Cello Concertos after he became a citizen)

Bartók
Schoenberg
Stravinsky
Hindemith
Krenek
Weill
Martinů
Milhaud
Varèse
Ferneyhough

<.<

vandermolen

#19
August 03, 2016, 02:15:56 AM
David Diamond
Copland
L. Bernstein
Antheil
Schuman
Lo Presti
Hanson
Harris
Piston
Kurka
"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).
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