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Composers Forum |
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Question #5 - What composers, living or dead, do you most admire? MSB - M. Susan Brown; SH - Steve Hahn; TK - Tim Krueger; TS - Terry Schlenker |
| MSB - Stravinsky, Britten, John Adams, Handel, Victoria, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Brahms, Richard Strauss, Billy Joel. SH - Mozart, Stravinsky, Wayne Shorter, Joe Zawinul, Miles Davis, Alphonso Johnson, Kerry Minnear, the Beatles, the Brecker Brothers. TK - The same ones who have influenced me the most – Bach, Brahms, Howells, Finzi. TS - I probably most respect those who share my vision. These days, I find music to be my deepest expression of the spiritual and the emotional. Rautavaara believes music exists in another dimension, and it is our duty as composers to accurately transcribe it into our dimension, sort of like the sculptor seeing the sculpture in the block of marble before beginning the work. |