Alan Lynn <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>John Williams is one of the most influential composers/conductors of our
>times, like it or not. He's also a very talented guitarist and an emmisary
>of sorts to the musically uneducated. Besides, the man knows how to write
>a good horn part. ;-)
I don't think John Williams is a good composer, if its now really wise
to take the discussion of Good and Bad, he is in short a kind of Sven
Cocklinson who has good ears, he hears everything and good understand how
he shall use it, but he don't know so much more. He is not what I would
call "educated" if that is now how you say "gebildet" in English. How far
from noble, sentimental, emotional understanding music, isn't his mechanic
unpersonal crap? For his music, ok, setting music to films is its own art,
but take some Strauss, take some Offenbach, and shake everything to a
cocktail, and there you have him: John Williams!! Besides I don't think
there is something special with his horn parts.
>Music has been around for centuries - surely somewhere, sometime every
>chord progression, melody, etc, has already been written, even if not
>well known.
There are more potential melodies than there are stars in the universe.
Andreas von Doebeln
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