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Music Lane It's all about the music, dude! Sit down, relax and listen to some tunes. |
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Music Lane It's all about the music, dude! Sit down, relax and listen to some tunes. |
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In Reply to: in the times obit... posted by hifitommy on May 13, 2016 at 11:26:56:
The obit contains a quote from a music critic in 1975 who says Tomita's version of Pictures "will disappoint the more musically minded, though it will just as certainly titillate the quad nuts". Many critics at the time, including this one, dismissed the Moog synthesizer of Walter Carlos and Tomita as a high-tech New Age hippie gimmick.
A very short-sighted (hard of hearing?) opinion, imo. Synthesized electronic music is an important element in a very wide range of genres today, right up to Pulitzer Prize, Grammy and Oscar winning classical "neoromantic" (i.e., mostly tonal) composer John Corigliano. Carlos and Tomita were creative pioneers. That's obvious even to someone, like me, who prefers the acoustic version of Pictures and Bach that is switched-off.
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