I will say this about the Akiho piece I'm listening to now titled "Prospects of a Misplaced Year". A lot of it reminds me of Bernard Herrmann which is good because I like film music and especially Herrmann's style. If I was going to hire someone to do a noir soundtrack, I'd choose Akiho.
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There's more to it than that. http://www.latimes.com/science/scien...nap-story.html
Most of the time classical music transcribed into a rock format doesn't work for me at all. There are some exceptions like ELP's Fanfare for the common man, Renaissance's Cold is Being to name a few. Emerson was a master at it. Many of his are really good.
I can totally respect your viewpoint on not appreciating some 20th century composers/works. The big beef I would have is to label ALL of that music in less-than-flattering terms. You can hate it all you want, but that doesn't mean its shit. I happen to love Bach's St. Matthews Passion, Mahler 2, and Ligeti Atmospheres, and they all do different things for me.
In terms of what you said about Shostakovich for example - I would encourage you to dive head-first into some of his symphonies/string quartets - and I mean REALLY dive in. We're talking weeks here. He can be the perfect composer to bridge romanticism with some 20th century attributes, although admittedly he only goes so far in terms of texture, timbre, orchestral color compared to more radical composers. His music should stick into your head if you've heard it enough times - its a "catchy" as Beethoven imo.
If it isn't Krautrock, it's krap.
"And it's only the giving
That makes you what you are" - Ian Anderson
I'm seeing this for the first time now. I write the book on my own opinion of everything. That's the book I write. Frankly, I don't give a damn who likes noise or something that's just one note for an hour and a half. They should go listen to it and have fifty-three orgasms while doing so. What they like jangles my nerves the same way that the more atonal 20th Century music does. I can't discern a beat. I can't hear a melody. I can't figure out what's going on. It all sounds random. I can't listen to random.
Now, if writing the book on a subject is the only way I'm allowed to have an opinion, then all I have to say is that I don't recognize or accept that rule. There is only one rule for me and that's this: There are two kinds of music in the world, what I like and what I don't like. That's it.
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Not exactly new but a great example of crossover or fusion that works wonderfully IMO:And there are new crossovers between classical and other genres.
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Thanks for posting the longish clip of After Crying. This is a bucket list band for me. I'm listening to the 2 CD (I think 25th Anniversary disc). I prefer the instrumental side of the band but I do like it all.
Well, I can only say that I prefer Stockhausen, Penderecki, Ligeti, Varese, and Subotnick over many of the so called classical/rock hybrid type things.
On the other hand, I've been enjoying a lot of Terje Rypdal's orchestral work, although that's mostly just taking the sort of modern electric guitar (well, post-Hendrix guitar, not very modern anymore, is it?) into a sort of late Romantic/early 20th century orchestral framework, so beyond that, there's not much in the way of "crossover" or whatever.
How is this for a hybrid?
Florian Magnus Maier is a metal guitarist who studied flamengo with Paco Peña in Rotterdam and also studied composition.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florian_Magnus_Maier
Listen dude. I don't like dissonance, so it doesn't exist, since I don't like it. I don't like it so the human brain is not made to like it - since I only have brain. Classical music died when I stopped liking it, because it became part of what I don't like. Frankly Frank, I don't give a damn about your opinion and the 5 paragraphs you wrote to support it. I've been listening to music for 240 years so that has to count for something. That's it.
You can't state that a form of music died, because you don't like it anymore. My dad doesn't like any jazz that is made after 1935, or even after 1930. This doesn't mean jazz died, it just means he lost interest, just like you lost interest in classical music, which doesn't sound the way you like. No-one is forcing you to like something you don't like, but the music still excists and is very much alive, even if it's not for you.
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I have to agree with zap on this one: if he doesn't like it, it doesn't exist. In fact for a while something I posted rubbed him the wrong way, he decided he didn't like me and I instantly vanished into the void. Thank goodness he changed his mind and I reappeared, but not before my wife filed a missing persons report with the police. It was a big mess so take my advice Rarebird and be careful how you respond to Zappathustra...
I'm not so sure about that. Andrew McKenna Lee (bandleader, songwriter, the bald guy on guitar) has serious, legit training as a composer. And while he does like Yes and other prog, that stuff comes at least as much from his formal studies, his background in classical guitar, and a sort of generalized love of rock and pop. Those vocals, for example, are meant as his own version of Sixties girl-group pop - the Shirelles, the Supremes, and so forth.
That has never happened and you know it. So enjoy the privilege of being in the good territory of the universe, meaning obviously the one that I like. The other is not only bad, it just doesn't exist. Isn't it a famous philosopher's axiom: I like therefore it is? Or something like that.
...or not
Try http://www.coursera.org/learn/music-as-biology
My Progressive Workshop at http://soundcloud.com/hfxx
A perfect example of a rock band playing a popular classical piece.
Certainly Ritchie Blackmore has been down this road a few times.
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