On May 20, 2005, at 7:45 PM, Peter Cudmore wrote:
> 20th c choral music is almost an oxymoron, but the Glagolitic Mass is a
> glorious exception. There's also the fabulous Ligeti music Kubrick
> used for
> 2001, and also a central-eastern European tradition that Penderecki
> captures
> in his St Luke Mass.
>
> Pace Mark's comments about minimalism, there's also Steve Reich's
> Desert
> Music, which I think is wonderful. Based on W. C. Williams poems.
>
> Oh, and let's not forget Carmina Burana.
Or Arvo Pärt, or Messiaen, or Stockhausen, or Virgil Thomson,
or Penderecki . . .
Hal
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