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Title: Twenty-six for the 4th!
Post by: owlice on July 04, 2009, 04:00:10 AM
Adams
Billings
Copland
Danielpour

Your turn!
Title: Re: Twenty-six for the 4th!
Post by: Diletante on July 04, 2009, 04:18:27 AM
Erm... Ives?
Title: Re: Twenty-six for the 4th!
Post by: 71 dB on July 04, 2009, 04:27:16 AM
Quote from: owlice on July 04, 2009, 04:00:10 AM
Adams
Billings
Copland
Danielpour

Your turn!

Elgar
Fauré
Granados
Handel

0:)
Title: Re: Twenty-six for the 4th!
Post by: DavidRoss on July 04, 2009, 05:00:21 AM
Now Ives!
Janacek
Kodaly
Lilburn
Title: Re: Twenty-six for the 4th!
Post by: karlhenning on July 04, 2009, 05:03:03 AM
Mingus
Wuorinen
Henning
Scarlatti

(Where we're going for the barbecue, I expect we shall hear Scarlatti!)
Title: Re: Twenty-six for the 4th!
Post by: DavidRoss on July 04, 2009, 05:18:10 AM
Quote from: DavidRoss on July 04, 2009, 05:00:21 AM
Now Ives!
Janacek
Kodaly
Lilburn
Hmmm..or should that be:

Ives
Joplin
Knox, and
Lamb?
Title: Re: Twenty-six for the 4th!
Post by: 71 dB on July 04, 2009, 05:42:20 AM
Quote from: DavidRoss on July 04, 2009, 05:18:10 AM
Hmmm..or should that be:

Ives
Joplin
Knox, and
Lamb?
or:

Ippolitov-Ivanov
Jolivet
Kuhlau
Lully

;D
Title: Re: Twenty-six for the 4th!
Post by: DavidRoss on July 04, 2009, 06:19:38 AM
Quote from: 71 dB on July 04, 2009, 05:42:20 AM
or:

Ippolitov-Ivanov
Jolivet
Kuhlau
Lully

;D
No, you seem to have missed the point ( :o ).  Those letters were already covered with an international selection (following your posting candidates for E-H) when I realized that Owlice most likely intended the list to comprise Americans (in honor of our Independence Day).  In which case the preceding four ought be: Elfman, Foster, Gershwin, Higdon.
Title: Re: Twenty-six for the 4th!
Post by: owlice on July 04, 2009, 06:33:11 AM
Yes! Dave's got it: American composers in honor of our Independence Day! An Alphabet of American Composers!

So we have:

Adams
Billings
Copland
Danielpour
Elfman
Foster
Gershwin
Higdon
Ives
Joplin
Knox
Lamb

so far! Keep up the excellent work, and no cheating by going to Wikipedia!! Look on your shelves, people, look on your CD shelves!! :D And a happy 4th to all!
Title: Re: Twenty-six for the 4th!
Post by: 71 dB on July 04, 2009, 06:35:25 AM
Quote from: DavidRoss on July 04, 2009, 06:19:38 AM
No, you seem to have missed the point ( :o ). 

Yes, I did but I get it now.  ;)
Title: Re: Twenty-six for the 4th!
Post by: Chrone on July 04, 2009, 10:05:18 AM
Quote from: owlice on July 04, 2009, 06:33:11 AM
Yes! Dave's got it: American composers in honor of our Independence Day! An Alphabet of American Composers!

So we have:

Adams
Billings
Copland
Danielpour
Elfman
Foster
Gershwin
Higdon
Ives
Joplin
Knox
Lamb


Morgan, as in Justin Morgan, horse-breeder and Yankee tunesmith. Although the "Better Music Boys" among you might go with Lowell Mason instead.
Title: Re: Twenty-six for the 4th!
Post by: snyprrr on July 04, 2009, 10:28:58 AM
Nancarrow
Olivieros
Porter
Qie... I just know there's a Chinese-American starting with "Q."
Rands
Schwantner
Ticheli
Ung
Varese
Weber
Xie... I just know there's a Chinese-American starting with "X."
Young
Zaimont/Zwilich
Title: Re: Twenty-six for the 4th!
Post by: toledobass on July 04, 2009, 11:24:05 AM
Ellington
Title: Re: Twenty-six for the 4th!
Post by: Brian on July 04, 2009, 11:48:03 AM
Quote from: owlice on July 04, 2009, 06:33:11 AM

Billings

Title: Re: Twenty-six for the 4th!
Post by: DavidRoss on July 04, 2009, 12:37:13 PM
Rouse
Schuman
Title: Re: Twenty-six for the 4th!
Post by: some guy on July 04, 2009, 01:18:59 PM
Ashley
Brecht (George)
Cage
Dockstader
Erickson
Feldman
Gosfield
Higgins
Ignace (I was not able to verify Paul's birthplace.)
Johnson
Knowles
Lucier
Marclay
Nelson
Oliveros
Partch
Q..., nope. Not even I can do Q for U.S. composers
Ruggles
Shields
Tudor
Ussachevsky
Varese
Wolff
X..., nope. More biting of the dust. (Mmmmm. Dust.)
Yau
Zorn

So it ain't 26, but still. Pretty good list notwithstanding, eh?

Title: Re: Twenty-six for the 4th!
Post by: karlhenning on July 04, 2009, 04:22:29 PM
Quote from: DavidRoss on July 04, 2009, 06:19:38 AM
No, you seem to have missed the point ( :o ).

Ouch!  I'm sure I did . . . .
Title: Re: Twenty-six for the 4th!
Post by: Taxes- on July 04, 2009, 04:25:04 PM
Should be H for Hamelin, obviously (http://nyphil.org/meet/archive/index.cfm?page=eventDetail&eventNum=1806&seasonNum=8&archive=1).
  ;)
Title: Re: Twenty-six for the 4th!
Post by: Chrone on July 04, 2009, 05:00:32 PM
Quote from: snyprrr on July 04, 2009, 10:28:58 AM
Nancarrow
Olivieros
Porter
Qie... I just know there's a Chinese-American starting with "Q."
Rands
Schwantner
Ticheli
Ung
Varese
Weber
Xie... I just know there's a Chinese-American starting with "X."
Young
Zaimont/Zwilich

Schwanter?? On the 4th of July?? If only there was an American composer whose name begins with S who is indelibly associated with today, something about stars and stripes, maybe? ;D

Oh, and by the way, that Z all y'all are looking for? ZAPPA.
Title: Re: Twenty-six for the 4th!
Post by: some guy on July 04, 2009, 11:03:37 PM
I wasn't looking for a Z. I got one already!

(It's a verra nice-a.)
Title: Re: Twenty-six for the 4th!
Post by: owlice on July 05, 2009, 06:02:34 AM
Excellent job; thanks for playing, all!