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In Reply to: RE: They're in the article posted by rbolaw on July 24, 2016 at 19:26:22:
Thanks for your list of favorites.
I've heard music by all of these guys, and own at least some pieces by most of them. And I do like some of the music by most of them. But (just my personal opinion), none of them will appear alongside the undisputed "great" composers (guys like Beethoven, Brahms, Bach, Dvorak, Rachmaninoff, Mahler, Mozart, etc), or even alongside the second tier of almost-greats like Saint-Saens, Bartok, Liszt, etc. Actually, I doubt that any of them will be remembered or played in concert for long after their death.
Of course I know that I'm not the arbiter of future fame and glory. All I ever profess is what I personally like listening to. Perhaps the audiences of the future will have more expansive ears than I do. But personally, I don't really think any of them are destined for "greatness." There's not one single work by the bunch that would appear on my personal "desert island 50" list.
That said, I do like some pieces by Vasks, Corigliano and Glass quite a lot. I also like the later (non-serial) music of Rautavaara, who is not on your list, but his later music is probably my favorite of the living composers. Yet, even having lived in NY, SF, and Houston, and been close enough to attend the symphony in Atlanta, Chicago and Cincinnati, I have never heard any music by Rautavaara on a concert program. So much for my idea of good modern music, eh?
"Life without music is a mistake" (Nietzsche)
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