Most Hated Composer of all Time?

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ComposerOfAvantGarde

#40
August 09, 2016, 04:47:17 PM
Who is Kenny G?

ComposerOfAvantGarde

#43
August 09, 2016, 05:06:05 PM
Ken B's evil half brother?

Karl Henning

#44
August 09, 2016, 05:07:38 PM
No one has seen Saul and Kenny G in the same place at the same time, right?
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

ComposerOfAvantGarde

#45
August 09, 2016, 05:09:10 PM
Quote from: karlhenning on August 09, 2016, 05:07:38 PM
No one has seen Saul and Kenny G in the same place at the same time, right?
Saul is Ken B's evil composing half brother

Q.E.D.

TheGSMoeller

#46
August 09, 2016, 05:27:53 PM
Quote from: karlhenning on August 09, 2016, 05:07:38 PM
No one has seen Saul and Kenny G in the same place at the same time, right?

Lets ask this guy....

Cato

#47
August 09, 2016, 05:36:23 PM
Quote from: TheGSMoeller on August 09, 2016, 05:27:53 PM
Lets ask this guy....



Or this guy...?

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

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

Simula

#48
August 09, 2016, 05:57:25 PM
Ok, Stockhausen it is, time to fold up the mats and go home.
"Beethoven wished he had the advanced quality of my ear." Arnold Schoenberg

ComposerOfAvantGarde

#49
August 09, 2016, 06:15:34 PM
Quote from: Simula on August 09, 2016, 05:57:25 PM
Ok, Stockhausen it is, time to fold up the mats and go home.
Bye then.

Jo498

#50
August 09, 2016, 11:19:24 PM
Heino clearly is no composer, he is just a singer; I am pretty sure someone else does the arrangements (most of his songs are traditionals or older Schlager anyway).
But this cover is priceless.
A little later he changed to his signature dark glasses because his eyes are affected by Graves' disease ("Basedowaugen", in German the condition is called Morbus Basedow after the doctor who described it a few years after Graves).
Tout le malheur des hommes vient d'une seule chose, qui est de ne savoir pas demeurer en repos, dans une chambre.
- Blaise Pascal

Scion7

#51
August 10, 2016, 05:27:47 AM
Kenny G is not what is known as a 'composer' - he played light light simplistic music which comes under the Jazz umbrella, but only in the most bland sort of way.  I suspect that his noise and some others will be what will be on the muzak speakers in hell.   >:D
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."

vandermolen

#52
August 11, 2016, 04:00:41 AM

Kenny G features in this video.

I want to make it quite clear,however, that I do not usually listen to such material and the video was simply tracked down in the interests of 'GMG Academic Research'

8)


https://youtu.be/KlyXNRrsk4A
"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).

Karl Henning

#53
August 11, 2016, 04:17:38 AM
Quote from: vandermolen on August 11, 2016, 04:00:41 AM
Kenny G features in this video.

I want to make it quite clear,however, that I do not usually listen to such material and the video was simply tracked down in the interests of 'GMG Academic Research'

8)


https://youtu.be/KlyXNRrsk4A

Brave man!

Not even the interests of GMG Research could induce me to listen to anything by Mason Bates.

Please note:  Mason Bates has a Wikipedia page.  Karl Henning does not.
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

vandermolen

#54
August 11, 2016, 04:51:15 AM
Quote from: karlhenning on August 11, 2016, 04:17:38 AM
Brave man!

Not even the interests of GMG Research could induce me to listen to anything by Mason Bates.

Please note:  Mason Bates has a Wikipedia page.  Karl Henning does not.

That is a true injustice.
"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).

Karl Henning

#55
August 11, 2016, 06:10:02 AM
Time will redress it.
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

(poco) Sforzando

#56
August 11, 2016, 06:27:04 AM
Quote from: karlhenning on August 11, 2016, 06:10:02 AM
Time will redress it.

You could start your own.
"I don't know what sforzando means, though it clearly means something."

(poco) Sforzando

#57
August 11, 2016, 06:28:00 AM
Quote from: karlhenning on August 11, 2016, 04:17:38 AM
Brave man!

Not even the interests of GMG Research could induce me to listen to anything by Mason Bates.

Or even Norman Bates . . . .
"I don't know what sforzando means, though it clearly means something."

Archaic Torso of Apollo

#58
August 11, 2016, 06:36:55 AM
Quote from: karlhenning on August 11, 2016, 04:17:38 AM

Not even the interests of GMG Research could induce me to listen to anything by Mason Bates.

I heard his violin concerto in concert a couple of years ago. A peculiar experience.

One way to re-phrase the title question: Who is the most hated composer in the sense of being the composer that orchestras (or other ensembles) most hate to play? There might even be some research on that, if only anecdotal.

Personally I suspect it might be one of those pay-for-play guys like Richard Nanes. Or it might be due to over-exposure (Pachelbel, Tchaikovsky).
formerly VELIMIR (before that, Spitvalve)

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

Karl Henning

#59
August 11, 2016, 06:38:17 AM
Quote from: (poco) Sforzando on August 11, 2016, 06:27:04 AM
You could start your own.

I don't know if I should.  Or is that the best practice?
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
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