Christopher Webber ([log in to unmask]) wrote:
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>Give Glass a break!  It's at least possible that his work points the
>way to a breaking of the Gordian Knot in which "classical music" seems
>determined to strangle itself.  Fifty seven million sales at least should
>give us pause for thought - modified rapture, rather than ammunition for
>an execution.

My problem with Glass, well problems I suppose, are firstly his
ultimately uninteristing compositional method and secondly the fact that
his popularity overshadows other (IMHO) better "minimalist" composers,
such as Riley and Reich.

deryk barker
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