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I've been on the Saturn list for years until I had email problems about a year ago. I've even met the woman at a raga concert, but she probably doesn't remember me.

No kidding.

Sounds like Allen!

Gary Moore fans rage at Britain's Sun tabloid for cause of death speculation. I thought the original Sun story was highly speculative. Bah!

Lowes disturbing behavior.

and his version of Wishing Well.

only 58.

I'll have to check out another performance of the Debussy/Ravel qts., I'm pretty familiar with this one now.

Absolutely! It's always paired with Ravels only string qt. I have the performance by the Emerson Qt. I should dig into Prokofiev. I like his piano music that I've been exposed to.

Thanks Brownie! I always wondered what a crepuscule was.

bring back the CD!

opps...that didn't work out.

My Mother would never let me have anything like that in the house.

NY Times obit: more intensely rational and for many listeners impenetrably abstruse...my kind of music.

Yeah...there's something about the way it sounds that just makes sense. Like Bach, a solidly constructed building.

Milton Babbitt - Composition for Guitar David Starobin, gtr New Music with Guitar, Vol. 1 ℗ 2011 Bridge Records, Inc. Released on: 1988-06-01 Music Publisher: C.F. Peters

passed away this morning. Milton Babbitt (May 10, 1916 - January 29, 2011) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton_Babbitt I used to see him at concerts in NYC in the '90s. Him and Elliott Carter would always be there with their wives. Julliard Theater, Miller Theater. RIP.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wenbcXkBh3U&feature=related Rachel Flowers - Tarkus (Emerson, Lake, and Palmer) Pt. 1

Stephen Prutsman- Soundchaser- Seoul, Korea

holy friggin' cräp!

I bought this recently to find out what these pieces sound like: Bela Bartok – The Piano Concertos (Pierre Boulez) (2005) expecting this to be exciting, I liked it the first time I heard it.

Oh yeah. For a Harry Partch student, he sounds nothing like him. His (classical) music is a departure from all that minimalism and Asian influence that most folks associate with microtonal music. Kepler Quartet sequenza21 article A Conversation with Ben Johnston The Microtonal Piano music is amazing, a bit different from what others have done with the piano and microtones. Less of the hymnotic drone and more of the abstract splat. Thanks for bringing up Ben Johnston's music -- I adore this music. The Kepler's CD is the first of what I believe is a projected three CDs of Ben's 10 quartets -- a heroic project. Thanks to a Kronos recording from some time ago, the best known is No. 4, a mesmerizing set of microtonal variations on "Amazing Grace." The earlier works are basically atonal and idiosyncratic in their use of avant-garde techniques. The later works return to tonality with more references to the past. I recall the 9th as being particularly warm hearted. All of his music is profoundly human, often witty. Ben was still teaching at the University of Illinois when I arrived on campus in 1981. He retired a couple years later and I unfortunately never got to know him. newly released: Ben Johnston: String Quartets 1, 5, and 10

Here's one that I've owned for years. Also very OOP. Oskar Gottlieb Blarr - Mussorgsky and Bartok on the Organ dude...Pictures at an Exhibition on a church organ, sorta like ELP, but not. Béla Bartók - Romanian Folk Dances (6) (Román népi táncok), for piano, Sz. 56, BB 68 4:54 Béla Bartók - Transylvanian Dances, for orchestra (arranged from Sonatina), Sz. 96, BB 102b 4:32 Béla Bartók - Dances in Bulgarian Rhythm (6), for piano (Mikrokosmos Vol.6/148-153), Sz. 107/6/148-153, BB 105/148-153 9:17 Modest Mussorgsky - Pictures at an Exhibition (Kartinki s vïstavski) 34:36 Performed By : Oskar Gottlieb Blarr

That cover is so fucking cool.