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In Reply to: RE: I can't pick one, but I think I can pick three... posted by EBerlin on May 11, 2008 at 22:33:39

1- J.S. Bach. There's really nothing to say about that choice.

2- Meredith Monk. I've been listening to her music for 10 years now and while it certainly lacks the structure and profundity of many other composers, I find a calm, still point at the centre of all of her music, a simple serenity in many ways (as if serenity can ever be "simple"). I find that point in some of the music of other composers but it's there in all of her music written in the last 20 years that I've heard and it seems to be more present in each new work that I hear.

3- I'll pick John Adams for his sense of play and his sense of tonal colour.

I certainly might not place Monk and Adams in my list of 3 greatest composers, and in fact I doubt I'd like to choose that list, but I certainly find them extremely satisfying composers which, I think, is a very different, and much more personal, thing.

David Aiken

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