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Don't be a hipster snob
Bastardous Bassist:
That's him exactly. The guy who wrote Hyperrpism, Octandre and Ionisation (at least, that's the pieces with which I am most familiar). I just got a recording of Boulez leading Chicago Symphony. It's in the latest album purchases thread. It's pretty good as far as I've gotten with it, which isn't very far. I plan on sitting down and listening to it later today, but I have a bunch of stuff to do first.
Also, the album has a Jackson Pollock painting on the cover. How could it not be amazing?
Kai:
Yeah, Edgar Varese is great. For his music, and his influence. Can we say, "Totally made Zappa do the weird shit he did"? I mean, because of it, I have Civilization: Phase III, and that wins.
pat101:
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I think a big problem with not knowing anybody is that I have a horrible, horrible memory. That's why I also do physics! No memorization needed!
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Took the words right out of my mouth. Exept I suck at physics.
And pat, those people probably dont really care about popular music.
Some people would rather listen to Bach then Radiohead
or Brahms then The Arcde Fire.
Nothing wrong with that.
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Oh I know that, and that's totally fine I mean I enjoy Bach and Brahams myself from time to time, I guess I just figured that if you're going to be studing music you'd try and learn as much about music as you can, no matter what the genre. I guess I'm also just sick of peole who tell me that they're fans of independant music but all their favorite bands are whoever's on the OC soundtrack yet they've never heard of Neutral Milk Hotel, it's just getting old.
Bastardous Bassist:
Yeah, but between practicing, and learning all that theory and stuff, it leaves very little time for other types of music. Now, I personally think it helps being well-versed in all forms of music, but that's because in jazz, it really helps with ideas for solos, but a deep understanding of any of those genres (including concert music) is not at all required. Of course, I'm also taking a course entitled "Music After 1950," which deals with all genres of music (concert music, jazz and pop so far, but when "pop" starts splitting into 50,000 different subgenres, as it does really soon in the course then those three won't be sufficient to describe it) and how they're all related to each other. It's great, and taught by one of my favorite music professors.
Rizzo:
I love the way this topic degenerated into hipsters talking about what people should know about music...
So very ironic.
Who'll be the first to reply criticising me?
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