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·For those of you who can't be limited to ten or even to one hundred.
For those of you who don't think a vertical perspective is at all useful for thinking about the arts.
For those of you who are just generally inclusive.
This is your thread.
Every once and awhile, post a composer or twelve that you admire with a brief note about why you admire them. You might even mention specific works, if you like. No favorites, though. We don't have no stinking favorites.
I'll start.
Michèle Bokanowski--I was in the Hollywood Amoeba shortly after it had opened, when it still had a lot of 3" CDs. I had already discovered that the Cinema pour l'oreille series was pretty cool, so when I saw her L'etoile absinthe in the characteristic packaging of that series, I bought it automatically. Some days later I put it on for the first time. Amazing. Overwhelming.
The next day I made the 90 minute drive back in to Hollywood to see if I could find any more discs by this amazing composer. There was one, in the three inch section, in the same Cinema pour l'oreille series. Either I'd overlooked it (unlikely), or it had come in in the two days since my last visit (also unlikely). Either way, there it was, so I bought it.
A couple of months later, CalArts--another 30 minutes or so up the road from Amoeba--hosted a weekend of the films of Patrick Bokanowski and of the music of Michèle Bokanowski and flew them from Paris to be there in person. Not just extraordinarily talented but also extraordinarily nice people.
[N.B.--I won't have time to do this very often, myself. I just wanted to counter the glut of new and resurrected "Top 10" (or 50 or 100 or 25 or whatever) lists that have been doing the old mushroom trick on TC recently.
And what I just said and the way I said it should not be taken as in any way a model for your own posts. This is a freeforall, OK?]
For those of you who don't think a vertical perspective is at all useful for thinking about the arts.
For those of you who are just generally inclusive.
This is your thread.
Every once and awhile, post a composer or twelve that you admire with a brief note about why you admire them. You might even mention specific works, if you like. No favorites, though. We don't have no stinking favorites.
I'll start.
Michèle Bokanowski--I was in the Hollywood Amoeba shortly after it had opened, when it still had a lot of 3" CDs. I had already discovered that the Cinema pour l'oreille series was pretty cool, so when I saw her L'etoile absinthe in the characteristic packaging of that series, I bought it automatically. Some days later I put it on for the first time. Amazing. Overwhelming.
The next day I made the 90 minute drive back in to Hollywood to see if I could find any more discs by this amazing composer. There was one, in the three inch section, in the same Cinema pour l'oreille series. Either I'd overlooked it (unlikely), or it had come in in the two days since my last visit (also unlikely). Either way, there it was, so I bought it.
A couple of months later, CalArts--another 30 minutes or so up the road from Amoeba--hosted a weekend of the films of Patrick Bokanowski and of the music of Michèle Bokanowski and flew them from Paris to be there in person. Not just extraordinarily talented but also extraordinarily nice people.
[N.B.--I won't have time to do this very often, myself. I just wanted to counter the glut of new and resurrected "Top 10" (or 50 or 100 or 25 or whatever) lists that have been doing the old mushroom trick on TC recently.
And what I just said and the way I said it should not be taken as in any way a model for your own posts. This is a freeforall, OK?]