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Hello fellow enthusiasts, I am proposing that we start a listening group for larger works from the last 50 years or so. I am totally open to input but I am thinking that we ideally do works that are 45-120 minutes long. We could potentially do even longer works than that though we would have to...

In another thread there has been a discussion about the greatest living composers. It was interesting to check out suggestions in order to find new favourites to follow. However, many of the suggestions were composers who are likely to not be very active in the years to come (due to their...

Dear forum members, I hope you are staying safe and well. I am currently working on a project and am conducting a survey for it. If you could kindly take 5 minutes to complete it, I would be extremely grateful. Here is a link: https://forms.gle/1gWk6WmQavgA7a7P6 Thank you very much for your time!

I just happened upon this Soviet/Russian composer by chance while scrolling down the K's on classical-music-online.net. That site had a large number of pieces for listening/download but very little in the way of info (date, performers) for most of them. The music blew me away. One of the only...

We invite everyone to participate in this listening thread focusing on contemporary music of the last 20 years! Each week TC members have the opportunity to present a "concert" of approximately 50 minutes of music for the TC community to hear and discuss. On your assigned week please list your...

This is an invitation to participate and give input on a listening thread. The focus of the thread will be LISTENING TO NEW MUSIC, specifically music composed in roughly the last 20 years. I hope to make this listening experience a little different than the 1980-2000 Listening Group by making it...

Does contemporary organ makers invent new physical stops - e.g. new types of pipes? It is hard to say - whether they do or do not do that. From the one side - stops mainly reflect the instruments of orchestra and the set of those instruments is finite and quite permanent for some centuries...

1980-2000 Listening Group The goal is to hear, discuss, and better appreciate music from 1980-2000. The selected works will be presented slowly over time, with each participant having the option of presenting the works they submitted. Alphabetical List of Works Note that No.11 and No.22...

CONTEMPORARY MASTERPIECES LISTENING GROUP I have had an idea for a while but I'm not absolutely certain how to best execute it. I would like input from the TC members that are interested in Contemporary music. The hope of the proposed thread would be to get as many people as possible, by...

I used to hate most 20th/21st century music (not the late-Romantics/early modernists [1]). The music had no melodies, it was cacophonous. Eventually I grew to enjoy it. Revelling in the chaos and explosive noises that existed. I speak of orchestral/concertante music of course. Vocal music is of...

So, I'm a newcomer at Talk Classical. But I noticed there're no threads about Free Improvisation. Anyone here into FI? For those who're new to it: Free Improvisation is a musical genre which emerged roughly by the late 1950s, but it's still practiced nowadays. It is basically a kind of musical...

Do you find your self to be an AM or late night composer?

I have recently played this piano trio by Italian Composer Matteo D'Amico. http://www.matteodamico.it/Curriculum.htm I think it is a very good piece that may be of interest for other piano trios and for the public in general. Enjoy it! Alessandro

I'm always in a quest to find great music. Honestly, one of the main reasons I come to TC is to mine all of you...to pick your brains to learn of great music that I'm not familiar with. So, with this end in mind, I'd like to ask all of you: OF ALL THAT HAS BEEN COMPOSED SINCE 1975, WHICH PIECES...

I like to focus on several composers at a time as personal favorites at least until I feel I know their lives and music very well. My opinion of them may change with time, and they might get replaced in my personal hierarchy by someone new, but it gives me some focus for my musical exploration...

Taken from "The Real Frank Zappa Book" written by Frank Zappa himself. "Hateful Practices" Meeting Pierre Boulez Living composers and stupid teens listening to Pop Music The following section is excerpted from the keynote address I delivered at the 1984 convention of the American...

In my case, I listen to 20th century and contemporary works most of the time. Don't get me wrong, I know some of you would call me a dumb person but I get bored listening to the baroque and classical era. Romanticism is amazing, I like it but I don't fo there too often either. Now some pictures...

I can relate to what she said in a sense. I like listening to classical music but at the end, the present and all the music to come is the one I'm insterested in. Maybe that's why I prefer contemporary music over baroque, classical, etc.

I would like to get more information about what's happening in contemporary classical music, but what magazines, blogs or other sources of information is good for this? I know some academic journals - like Twentieth Century Music from Cambridge University Press, Contemporary Music Review from...