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Composers Forum |
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Question #3 - Which, if any, composers have influenced you over the longer term? MSB - M. Susan Brown; SH - Steve Hahn; TK - Tim Krueger; TS - Terry Schlenker |
| MSB - Britten, Brahms, Bach, Mozart, Handel, the Renaissance madrigalists Byrd and Tallis, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Paul Simon, John Adams. SH - Later influences were Samuel Scheidt, Heinrich Schütz, Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Debussy, Bartók, George Crumb, Henri Tomasi, Charles Chaynes, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, and Return to Forever (Chick Corea). TK - Bach and Brahms influence and inspire me with their intellectual facility. Howells and Finzi have affected me in a more emotional way, especially evoking feelings of melancholy and nostalgia. TS - More recently, as I have begun to focus on choral music, I have loved the music of Frank Martin, Arvo Pärt, Einojuhani Rautavaara, Hugo Distler, and Eric Whitacre. |