Billy Kitson ([log in to unmask]) wrote:

>Ahh, somebody else read the Sunday Telegraph item it was in Tuesday's
>Sydney Morning Herald = a sense of "deja vu" Re: - WAMozart and a FEW
>others did come into my head!!  If Mr Gorecki is regarded as "one of the
>world's successful living composers" [direct quote from article] "Lord
>help Us"!!

I have no problem with "one of" - how, after all, would you define
"succesful" so as to exclude HG?

But, IIRC, the original article said "the" most succesful.  i suppose
in terms of record sales that godawful symphony must make hima contender.
But I wonder if in total numbers of discs shipped he'd still be numero
uno? Ahead of Glass, Taverner, Pa"rt, Nyman...

Deryk Barker
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