Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/12/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]on 7/12/00 4:06 pm, Martin Howard at howard.390@osu.edu wrote: > Mozart, I find, is remarkable. A great deal of his music is just absolutely > perfect. Every note, every beat, every nuance is as it only could be. > Within a single piece he constructs a framework and then plays within that > framework to perfection. Yeah, but who cares? Bach turns my head upside down in such a great way. I really can't stand mozart. Trills and toots and tunes, bah, humbug. Totally with you in Britten. Top man, as are many of the vastly underrated Brit 20th C composers. Also Copland, Stravinsky, Gershwin and Purcell. For the ultimate in pin-yer-ears-back-thrills, though, put on the Montiverdi vespers, turn up loud and hang on to your seat. Schubert & Beethoven's quartets! But let's not forget Dinosaur Jr, Big Black and the Go-Betweens. - -- Johnny Deadman http://www.pinkheadedbug.com