To continue with these lovely contemporary love confessions, I must add, in
my list:

-Arvo Part, and not only for the "Tintinabuly" thing.  "Kanon Pokajanen"
makes the listener feel all the overwhelming weight of good, even for a non
believer as I am.

-John Zorn.  I grow watching comics on TV, so I love his cuotations of WB
music, and his musical multi-style fragment collages.

-And I would like to add, specially, the music that the Art Ensemble of
Chicago did and recorded in the eighties for the ECM label.  The last shows
how John Cage's stone age-and-kindergarten musical conception could be
turned into something really fun and very, very good.  I think the AEC must
be among the most important ensambles of the last decades in jazz and
classical music, and I am not saying it as a jazz fan.

By the way, when people speak of contemporary music, they should mean the
music of TODAY.  How call Schoenberg "contemporary"? I think he is not
anymore.

Pablo Gamba
Caracas, Venezuela
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