In Reply to: I have shockingly bad taste… posted by David Aiken on December 27, 2007 at 22:47:08:
Sort of, via his alternate opera/soundtrack to Cocteau's Beauty & The Beast. Now THERE's a movie.
LOL, ain't it a stitch...thirty - forty years on these composers still provoke fear and/or loathing in the general music lover's breat.
The Dracula to a Glass quartet could be fun, actually, although Freaks is my all-time fave Browning film.
To be perfectly honest, I haven't been in love with much by Glass since his violin concerto but, oddly enough, I think he's a brilliant and effective film composer. Cage has acquired "grand old man" status now - isn't it amusing? I first became familiar with him through his pieces for choreographer/partner Merce Cunningham. Have you seen Meredith perform her pieces? Not to be missed, although I don't know if she does it anymore. I saw her back in the 70s and early 80s. Lou Harrison and Curran? Are you a New Yorker?
BTW, the Philip Glass Appreciation Society on -line fan club is headquartered just down the road from me in Carmel, IN. Really.
Seriously, if you can concenrtate on NY downtown minimalism & other musical iconoclasts try some horror/scifi with "redeeming" qualities: Devil's Backbone, Pan's Labyrinth, Children of Men etc.
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Follow Ups
- Glass beat ya to it... - Harmonia 06:01:22 12/28/07 (4)
- RE: Glass and Higdon - phatty 10:32:30 12/28/07 (3)
- Played one of best Rhapsody In Blue I've ever heard... - Harmonia 11:11:41 12/28/07 (2)
- Yes, it was the Third.... - phatty 11:49:00 12/28/07 (1)
- Champaign/Urbana is less than 2 hours from me. - Harmonia 15:05:08 12/28/07 (0)