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Thanks, pliable, for the decoding help and the lin...

2007-03-28T15:00:00.000+01:00

Thanks, pliable, for the decoding help and the link above.

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fyi, and for what its worth, conductor John McLaughlin Williams, active in unusual classical music recording projects in both the United States and Ukraine, thought that Silvestrov's "Requiem for Larissa" probably should have won a "Grammy Award" for ECM. He considers the Silvestrov work -- along with Franz Schmidt's 4th Symphony, Karl Amadeus Hartmann's Concerto Funebre, Henryk Gorecki's 3rd Symphony, Benjamin Lees' "Memorial Candles" Symphony, Joseph Suk's Asrael Symphony -- to be greater musical masterpieces than John Adams's recently trumpeted and awarded "On the Transmigration of Souls" for Lorin Maazel and the New York Philharmonic.

For those having difficulty decoding Garth's comme...

2007-03-26T21:44:00.000+01:00

For those having difficulty decoding Garth's comment follow this link.

Did the name of composer Elena Firsova inadvertant...

2007-03-26T21:30:00.000+01:00

Did the name of composer Elena Firsova inadvertantly get left out here?

Reading this piece again I do wonder why I spend h...

2007-03-25T18:42:00.000+01:00

Reading this piece again I do wonder why I spend hours agonising over nuances of phrasing in my posts.

Or is it simply that having a name like Igor Toronyi-Lalic allows you to be very rude about Russian composers?