>> 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
Should have said "or Berio . . ."
Hal
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