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Re: New Music Nonsense
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Margaret Mikulska <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Sat, 15 Jun 2002 02:30:09 -0400
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Julian Allen wrote:

>Nobody has yet mentioned 'Odyssey' by Nicolas Maw - said to be the longest
>piece of continuous music ever written.  This dates from the 1980's and is
>certainly a masterpiece.

I heard it live - dreadful stuff.  It's the contemporary equivalent of a
third-rate imitator of Chaikovsky.

-Margaret Mikulska

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