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Philip Peters asks me:
>Could you elaborate a bit on Talma (sounds like a Dutch - or, rather,
>Frisian name) & Clayton? Do they achieve the same level? Of course in this
>- I mean the last - century there have come increasingly more women to the
>fore.
Louise Talma, an American, studied with Boulanger. She's of the Samuel
Barber generation. She's neo-classicist, with the same kind of energy as
Piston. Laura Clayton's a composer, probably in her 50s now, who takes off
from Perle and Druckman.
Talma has a few recordings. To me, this is some of the finest music of the
century. Clayton has none, so far as I know. I've encountered her work
only in live performance.
Steve Schwartz
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