The economic possibilities of this piece are endless. $50 is chump change. For example, the makers of Xanax could pay to have this played repeatedly to people who have no escape. They'd make a gigantic return on investment.
I've heard music many times in my life that I initially 'did not get'. Later I grew to enjoy it. If this ends up broadening someone's limited idea of music, then it was worth it. Music is subjective, but I always appreciate imagination in music, even if I don't understand it at first. It's much easier to 'paint by numbers'.
Stravinky's Rite of Spring was instant...I loved it RIGHT AWAY. But: referring to your comment, that happened to me with Charles Ives. I really resonate with what you said.
Oh my god... After listening to this in the background for a minute or two my brain is tingling... This is amazing and I'm totally sober too.. Just do something else with this in the background
"Bethany Beardslee [the soprano in this recording] had specifically requested this piece by Babbitt. It has been described as synthesized sounds skillfully chosen to complement and reflect the singer's tonal colorings, being delicate, glistening, and elegant. The vocal part ranges from the F sharp below middle C to B above the staff. It is almost totally pointillistic in its splintering of all musical elements. Ussachevsky gave high praise to the work as satisfying both emotional as well as intellectual parameters." Music of the Twentieth-century Avant-garde, A Biocritical Sourcebook, Edited by Larry Sitsky, available on Google Books. "I know of no serious electronic composer who ever asserts that we are supplanting any other form of music. We're interested in increasing the resources of music." Milton Babbitt. An interview with Milton Babbit, by Charles Fowler for Music Educators Journal, 1968.
I expect most people's first response is "what a load of shitzu" but as time goes on with subsequent hearings it becomes strangely compelling & the thing is you can't say why.
Odd thing is...the more you listen, the less frightening it is. It's like no longer being scared in nightmares, because, you KNOW when you wake up, all is well. I had MORE nightmares as a kid; now, I actually HOPE I can confront my nightmares...yet I don't get any...just a trace.
This is supposed to follow the Greek mythology of a woman raped and left in the forest and the guy cut her tongue out so that's why she sounds like she's trying to speak. But she's having delusions running around in the forest
Caoilfhionn Davis To elaborate further, she was raped, had her tongue cut out, and was turned into a nightingale by the gods. This song is supposed to depict Philomela becoming used to her new voice (hence the bird-like songs in the beginning) and recalling the events that transpired in the forest. She’s not having delusions. She’s literally in the forest as a bird.
@@Eorzat Oh wow...this explanation actually makes the piece make a lot of sense now. I can totally imagine a bewildered and frightened human-turned-nightingale in a state of fright.
I feel a million trees too. Actually, I did a thesis on this composition in College. Babbitt worked closely with RCA to develop a more precise Synthesizer - the RCA Mark II. Anyways, this piece was composed by him for Bethany Beardslee and I believe this is the original recording performed by her.
@KhagarBalugrak Also, the original name of the article is "Composer as specialist", which was changed without his permission. He wrote that people need to make an effort to enjoy new sophisticated music, but most people not only wish not to do it, but also the are not interested in new music at all. I mean really new music, not pop music, which is always the same.
@KhagarBalugrak I think it's good to expose yourself of stuff that's outside of traditional minors, modes, ragas, meters, etc... The important thing about this piece is that it has a tangible aesthetic. I don't relate to it instantly, but when I hear it, I hear substance and purpose, it makes me want to listen to it again and think about the sort of proto-poetry accompanying it. Would I pick it over a Yundi Li concert? No. But that doesn't mean I can't listen and smile. New wrinkles on the brain
This piece makes a whole lot more sense than much of Babbitt's other work, specifically his piano compositions which are just complete confusion for the sake of confusion.
@RandomTask3000 I never studied music professionally. But I enjoy this music. I managed to enjoy this solely because I made a considerable(very considerable) effort. I've heard a lot of music that is considered to be difficult such as death metal, harsh noise, etc. But this is the most difficult ever. Now my perception of music is completely different to what it used to be.
Truly a craft; this composer invested serious time to come up with serialist logic that doesn't (to me) sacrifice VARIETY. Not having studied music is a testament to this composer, too. But...I'm a musician, yet I LIKE ... what I don't necessarily UNDERSTAND.
This doesn't sound random to me. In my opinion it is more structured than most music I've ever heard. Elliott Carter has written music that's even more demanding from the listener. And yes, John Cage knew Babbitt very well.
Babbitt is a funny old guy, I met him once. He started out writing showtunes, you know. Is this Judith Bettina? It sounds like her. She's a great interpreter of his work. I've seen her perform many times.
@stanchinsky Yup. He also spent YEARS playing pop tunes in working bands. Also, he had perfect pitch. He's kinda Frank Zappa, before Frank Zappa was Frank Zappa.
Babbitt's music hardly has anything to do with vacuum cleaners or industrial music of any sort. His music is based on tonal relations, just like Mozart's music.The main problem in it is that many events are happening at a given second of his music and each this secod is in complex relations to each other, thus making his music quite demanding. In fact, if one can undertand the music of Wagner or Webern, it will not be difficult for them to undertand Babbitt.
Here's the deal: Babbit, and other composers like him (Schoenberg, Berg, etc) believed that concepts such as "conveying emotion" or a "listenable melody" were passe, and they decided to take music to the next level. Their approach to music is that it was like a formula to be derived. If you didn't understand the song, it was because you were too stupid to understand it.
@Reishirosama Exactly backward: this doesn't sound like music from a Spongebob episode, there's a Spongebob episode with music that sounds like THIS. Get it?!
@stanchinsky agree.... this music, like the french spectral composers, is a natural 20th century extension of traditional tonal harmony/orchestration/etc.
Actually there's less use of sprechstimme in this piece than you might think. While it does use some here and there, the piece actually has written pitches the vocalist is supposed to sing.
I like it! It's Such an honor for me to listen to something like this. I try so hard to open my mind and float into the world of Electronic Music, this took me there! To the center, the core, the foundations! Bravo, it's incredible!!
well, I think it's wrong to say there's no set rhythm or timing, rather, there are set timings and rhythms. There are definatley patterns and mottifs. I think that organization is what makes it classifiable as music.
Zappa was a musical hero to me (from last century), as was Jimi Hendrix, Herbie Hancock and Miles Davis...and Weather Report. I LOVE FZ's orchestral works. But I seem to like this Mr. Babbitt more than I thought! Now I gotta listen to "Green Scratchy Sweaters".. !
For sure. People like Schoenberg will be remembered for their unconventional thought, but I really believe the music of Samuel Barber, and Eric Whitacre, or dare I even yet say Jude Vaclavik will more clearly survive the ages of time.
B zzzozzoikszz z zz beeoingggg.... (that's the sound of my neurons springing right out of my brain). Babbitt is a genius, don't be deceived. But there's no way to make the genius in Philomel popular. In fact, as much as I admire Philomel, I can only listen to it once per year, before the neurons start popping out of my head with that springing sound...
You are very wrong. He never experimented the way scientists did as he said numerous times that what he did was art and he thought as a musician, thinking how his music could develop one way or another.He compared himself to a scientist mainly implying that it's unlikely that mainstream audience will turn attention to abstract mathematics, similarly it's unlikely that mainstream audience will turn to such music, and therefore such music will be of interest to some limited number of individuals.
But I love "Philomel". My only problem is the ending doesn't do the final words justice. "I am becoming my own song". Come on, all of us live for that moment of finding our own song...a line like that shouldn't end so forgettably!
@LesbianStraightGay What I understood from his article was not that people need to make an effort to enjoy new sophisticated music, but that it's simply not for everyone. It's by and for specialists."Why should the layman be other than bored and puzzled by what he is unable to understand? It is only the translation of this boredom and puzzlement into resentment and denunciation that seems to me indefensible." I don't like this, but I have no right to say it's not music. "Music" is subjective.
@ozeri By "the usual stuff" were you referring to dentistry? Hamburgers? Those embarrassing flakes (i.e., dandruff)? Perhaps a combination of all these?
Actually there was no such failure in his writing! This music has a theme. The vocal part is sung in what is called "recitative" in a sence it is a "medium", if you will, of speaking and singing. I would suggest "Pierrot Lunaire" by Schoenberg!
Endure Schonberg or this is a relative term. Imagine having to endure Ligeti, about the most mechanistic, process-oriented and BORING of the post post moderns. Still, i like Ligeti...Babbitt has moments of glory, like this one..
¿A quién NO le va a gustar esta obra? Es phe-no-me-nal. No toda la obra de Babbitt es tan asequible como ésta, aunque toda su obra es interesante y variada. Un campo mucho más vasto que la repetición incesante de Steve Reich, el Glass y por supuesto todos los pos-modernitos con sus fusiones de esto y aquello, o pero aún, los que tratan de escribir música tonal, y ya ni pueden armonizar un pinche coral...
That's pretty close to my opinion! I find, to MY ears, that it encases variety, and then de-encases it (let's it OUT of the box), with astounding sense of PACE.
You seem to refer to an article which he wrote in 1958.I refer to the documentary called "MILTON BABBITT Portrait by ROBERT HILFERTY (Director's cut)".I do not have any education in music but I find this music to be very listenable.If fact,the vocal lines in this piece remind me of American pop songs of the first half of the 20th century.It might be difficult when one tries it for the first time,but with repeated attempts it gets better,especially if one had heard Webern.
Yes, the pompous world of academia turns up their nose at him and poo-poohs his genius. Unless the academic world of classical western art music opens it's minds to composers such as Edgar Meyer and allow them the same sort of room as composers such as Christopher Theofanidis. Its self-dug hole will collapse and be lost due to its complete and utter irrelevancy. Just because someone makes money from their art doesn't mean it's a compromise.
Babbit was not the kind to "hear every note in his head", he's more the kind to somehow come up with a structure that is flawless. He's like the mad scientist of music. He was very into mathematics.
![Babbitt, "Philomel" (1964) [Monadnock Music Festival 2010]](/img/n.gif)
I paid my buddy's wedding DJ $50 to play this at his wedding.
you, sir, are my hero.
The economic possibilities of this piece are endless. $50 is chump change. For example, the makers of Xanax could pay to have this played repeatedly to people who have no escape. They'd make a gigantic return on investment.
lmfao what^ also thats a brilliant idea to get the dj to play this at a wedding god im picturing it now thats hysterical
My hat is off to you.
Well done Sir
My IB music theory class brought me here. I swear if I get this on the exam imma flip the table.
Same 😂
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Yay! I’m not the only one in 2020!
It's actually... Eee... Eee eee eee according to the score.
Rejoice, yee(s) . . . . . . . ..... Phil, a million trees, plant 'em over here, O K ?
Clearly, I haven't done enough opium to understand this.
David Toback Try Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire.
"It's got a good beat, and you can dance to it." - Dick Clark
I've heard music many times in my life that I initially 'did not get'. Later I grew to enjoy it. If this ends up broadening someone's limited idea of music, then it was worth it. Music is subjective, but I always appreciate imagination in music, even if I don't understand it at first. It's much easier to 'paint by numbers'.
Stravinky's Rite of Spring was instant...I loved it RIGHT AWAY. But: referring to your comment, that happened to me with Charles Ives. I really resonate with what you said.
Just so people know, this was composed on the RCA Mark II, The EARLIEST programmable synthesizer.
Torin Vlietstra This was the first song that got popular that was composed on a synth as far as I know.
Google it, the photos are astonishing. It's huge, takes up a room like Hal. Lol.
Same one for Wuorinen's TIME'S ENCOMIUM . . . ..1969
The soprano really did a good job on this.
Mihordea Dana so difficult
Yes. Lovely voice, and VERY good ears, w/superb attention to articulations.
Why do I keep feeling like this is gonna turn into a snuff film.
Well it is about the rape of a woman so.....
Does the chicken have to do with it ... I'll admit the music IS a mite SCARY.
he... he HE... he TREEEEEEEEES
Oh my god... After listening to this in the background for a minute or two my brain is tingling... This is amazing and I'm totally sober too.. Just do something else with this in the background
I'm scared... how did I get here?
Checking in every time I remember this exists.
Babbitt is famous in the non classical music world as Sondheim's teacher. It would've been interesting to have heard a collaboration between them.
Whew...REALLY interesting !
what the hell did i just listen to.
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1960's music. This is all synthetic music, essentially... The first ever dubstep.
+LaNoobleyCentralz For Soprano, Synthesizer and electronic tape
"Bethany Beardslee [the soprano in this recording] had specifically requested this piece by Babbitt. It has been described as synthesized sounds skillfully chosen to complement and reflect the singer's tonal colorings, being delicate, glistening, and elegant. The vocal part ranges from the F sharp below middle C to B above the staff. It is almost totally pointillistic in its splintering of all musical elements. Ussachevsky gave high praise to the work as satisfying both emotional as well as intellectual parameters." Music of the Twentieth-century Avant-garde, A Biocritical Sourcebook, Edited by Larry Sitsky, available on Google Books.
"I know of no serious electronic composer who ever asserts that we are supplanting any other form of music. We're interested in increasing the resources of music." Milton Babbitt. An interview with Milton Babbit, by Charles Fowler for Music Educators Journal, 1968.
Bethany Beardslee, Cathy Berbarian, (and my Mom) were all born in 1925. IMHO, Beardslee is a superb singer.
This is what I watch in 2020...
It certianly requires a patient ear to understand, enjoy, and decode. It is a fascinating work, and a bold statement.
You know it takes a while to appreciate this kind of music. When I first heard it years ago, I was like "what is this shit?" Now I love it.
Look up Stockholm syndrome
I expect most people's first response is "what a load of shitzu" but as time goes on with subsequent hearings it becomes strangely compelling & the thing is you can't say why.
So this is where Bjork got her 2000s sound.
Thank you for posting this, seriously.
This is delightful food for the BRAIN, IMO. Intense and utterly interesting.
Wow, electroacoustic music is very frightening
Odd thing is...the more you listen, the less frightening it is. It's like no longer being scared in nightmares, because, you KNOW when you wake up, all is well. I had MORE nightmares as a kid; now, I actually HOPE I can confront my nightmares...yet I don't get any...just a trace.
This is supposed to follow the Greek mythology of a woman raped and left in the forest and the guy cut her tongue out so that's why she sounds like she's trying to speak. But she's having delusions running around in the forest
Caoilfhionn Davis To elaborate further, she was raped, had her tongue cut out, and was turned into a nightingale by the gods. This song is supposed to depict Philomela becoming used to her new voice (hence the bird-like songs in the beginning) and recalling the events that transpired in the forest. She’s not having delusions. She’s literally in the forest as a bird.
@@Eorzat Oh wow...this explanation actually makes the piece make a lot of sense now. I can totally imagine a bewildered and frightened human-turned-nightingale in a state of fright.
Y I K E S
I feel a million trees too. Actually, I did a thesis on this composition in College. Babbitt worked closely with RCA to develop a more precise Synthesizer - the RCA Mark II. Anyways, this piece was composed by him for Bethany Beardslee and I believe this is the original recording performed by her.
@KhagarBalugrak Also, the original name of the article is "Composer as specialist", which was changed without his permission. He wrote that people need to make an effort to enjoy new sophisticated music, but most people not only wish not to do it, but also the are not interested in new music at all. I mean really new music, not pop music, which is always the same.
So this is Philomel. Very cool. All of Stockhausen in a few minutes!
Hm. I sorta disagree, but...sorta agree (a paradox - or at least hopefully not a misconception(!)
Yeah... I can see why people weren't into this.
Meanwhile one guy with his entire tongue covered with acid: yeah that sounds about right
First tutorial ever. “How to make your dog go batshit crazy.”
Think about how different this would sound without the synthesizers
A friend just turned me on to your very cool stuff.
@KhagarBalugrak I think it's good to expose yourself of stuff that's outside of traditional minors, modes, ragas, meters, etc... The important thing about this piece is that it has a tangible aesthetic. I don't relate to it instantly, but when I hear it, I hear substance and purpose, it makes me want to listen to it again and think about the sort of proto-poetry accompanying it. Would I pick it over a Yundi Li concert? No. But that doesn't mean I can't listen and smile. New wrinkles on the brain
this sounds like a horror film soundtrack
This piece makes a whole lot more sense than much of Babbitt's other work, specifically his piano compositions which are just complete confusion for the sake of confusion.
@RandomTask3000 I never studied music professionally. But I enjoy this music. I managed to enjoy this solely because I made a considerable(very considerable) effort. I've heard a lot of music that is considered to be difficult such as death metal, harsh noise, etc. But this is the most difficult ever. Now my perception of music is completely different to what it used to be.
Truly a craft; this composer invested serious time to come up with serialist logic that doesn't (to me) sacrifice VARIETY. Not having studied music is a testament to this composer, too. But...I'm a musician, yet I LIKE ... what I don't necessarily UNDERSTAND.
The true Uncle Milty
I'd have paid good money to see what the Soul Train dancers could do with this.
ME, TOO
Dunno about money, but yes I'd be curious!
My shoulders just went ^^ within the first couple tones. hardly ever hear music like this :)
It's just a different, strange, but organized environment. I think the singer well compliments Mr. Babbitt's piece.
This is really beautiful !
@mikeshorin man you make art music lovers look so great
When does the girl crawl through the television? This is the video that was in The Ring, right?
this is a certified avant garde classic
Awww, did baby learn a new word? 🖕😑
@@fenrirrising131 cry
This doesn't sound random to me. In my opinion it is more structured than most music I've ever heard. Elliott Carter has written music that's even more demanding from the listener. And yes, John Cage knew Babbitt very well.
Babbitt is a funny old guy, I met him once. He started out writing showtunes, you know. Is this Judith Bettina? It sounds like her. She's a great interpreter of his work. I've seen her perform many times.
The singer is Bethany Beardslee.
Bethany Winham Still you are the queen of this music,Bethany !!
Agreed! Looking forward to reading your memoir--you're a musical hero of mine.
"singer"
It's a hit!
Fellow person of 2020!
Reminds me of the level in Donkey Kong with the electronic chomper things.
Mathematics at its finest.
this is the weirdest song ive ever heard. we listened to it in class.
@stanchinsky Yup. He also spent YEARS playing pop tunes in working bands.
Also, he had perfect pitch.
He's kinda Frank Zappa, before Frank Zappa was Frank Zappa.
I keep thinking that something is gonna come out of the woods and try to freak me out... :P
Babbitt's music hardly has anything to do with vacuum cleaners or industrial music of any sort. His music is based on tonal relations, just like Mozart's music.The main problem in it is that many events are happening at a given second of his music and each this secod is in complex relations to each other, thus making his music quite demanding. In fact, if one can undertand the music of Wagner or Webern, it will not be difficult for them to undertand Babbitt.
my music teacher played this today in class and i absolutely hate this shi im actually traumatized bro everytime i listen to this i panic
Here's the deal: Babbit, and other composers like him (Schoenberg, Berg, etc) believed that concepts such as "conveying emotion" or a "listenable melody" were passe, and they decided to take music to the next level. Their approach to music is that it was like a formula to be derived. If you didn't understand the song, it was because you were too stupid to understand it.
They did not believe this at all.
@Caramellatta I enjoy this without any special knowledge.
@Reishirosama Exactly backward: this doesn't sound like music from a Spongebob episode, there's a Spongebob episode with music that sounds like THIS. Get it?!
@stanchinsky
agree.... this music, like the french spectral composers, is a natural 20th century extension of traditional tonal harmony/orchestration/etc.
In all fairness spectralism is based on science and serialism is based on sci-fi numerology
Yep. I liked this one and some of Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire or whatever it was called. But the rest of it made me sneeze.
@gavinfarkas hah word! my final is tomorrow at noon and both of their names are right next to each other on the study guide! XD
It totally does!
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Actually there's less use of sprechstimme in this piece than you might think. While it does use some here and there, the piece actually has written pitches the vocalist is supposed to sing.
babbitt is emerging as the last most significant american modernist after 1950. pace carter.
I like it! It's Such an honor for me to listen to something like this. I try so hard to open my mind and float into the world of Electronic Music, this took me there! To the center, the core, the foundations! Bravo, it's incredible!!
my ears bled
well, I think it's wrong to say there's no set rhythm or timing, rather, there are set timings and rhythms. There are definatley patterns and mottifs. I think that organization is what makes it classifiable as music.
ahh, I love the Twelve Tone System.
Very much reminds me of Frank Zappa's "little green scratchy sweaters"
Zappa was a musical hero to me (from last century), as was Jimi Hendrix, Herbie Hancock and Miles Davis...and Weather Report. I LOVE FZ's orchestral works. But I seem to like this Mr. Babbitt more than I thought! Now I gotta listen to "Green Scratchy Sweaters".. !
For sure. People like Schoenberg will be remembered for their unconventional thought, but I really believe the music of Samuel Barber, and Eric Whitacre, or dare I even yet say Jude Vaclavik will more clearly survive the ages of time.
Young
trees!
B zzzozzoikszz z zz beeoingggg.... (that's the sound of my neurons springing right out of my brain). Babbitt is a genius, don't be deceived. But there's no way to make the genius in Philomel popular. In fact, as much as I admire Philomel, I can only listen to it once per year, before the neurons start popping out of my head with that springing sound...
R.I.P.
You might want to consider re-reading what he wrote. I had to write a paper on this guy for music history
@Mastersopinion It's not necessarily bad, I just wanted to stress the difference between serious art music and amateur music.
This IS serious, yet fun at the same time ...not at all amateur, IMHO.
Yes. Anyone interested in this work should read a recent paper by Christopher M. Barry.
Quite enjoyable.
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NeoFryBoy !
no, It's not, It's experimental, avant-garde... it's very common, it doesn't mean is pretentious just because you don't like it / get it.
You are very wrong. He never experimented the way scientists did as he said numerous times that what he did was art and he thought as a musician, thinking how his music could develop one way or another.He compared himself to a scientist mainly implying that it's unlikely that mainstream audience will turn attention to abstract mathematics, similarly it's unlikely that mainstream audience will turn to such music, and therefore such music will be of interest to some limited number of individuals.
But I love "Philomel". My only problem is the ending doesn't do the final words justice. "I am becoming my own song". Come on, all of us live for that moment of finding our own song...a line like that shouldn't end so forgettably!
@LesbianStraightGay What I understood from his article was not that people need to make an effort to enjoy new sophisticated music, but that it's simply not for everyone. It's by and for specialists."Why should the layman be other than bored and puzzled by what he is unable to understand? It is only the translation of this boredom and puzzlement into resentment and denunciation that seems to me indefensible." I don't like this, but I have no right to say it's not music. "Music" is subjective.
If you like this, I suggest Stockhausen's Gesang Der Junglinge.
@ozeri By "the usual stuff" were you referring to dentistry? Hamburgers? Those embarrassing flakes (i.e., dandruff)? Perhaps a combination of all these?
I wanna download this. Someone send me a link plox.
Actually there was no such failure in his writing! This music has a theme. The vocal part is sung in what is called "recitative" in a sence it is a "medium", if you will, of speaking and singing. I would suggest "Pierrot Lunaire" by Schoenberg!
Fucking terrifying
@KhagarBalugrak a true badass you are
Can anyone confirm if this is Lucy Shelton ? No one does it better than Lucy, and it sounds like her.
Reminds me a little bit of Vladimir Sarsenchy's pieces.
i loved what kind of music is?
Classic performance of one of the twentieth centuries greatest works.
Gay
One word... Sprechstimme.... O.o
Endure Schonberg or this is a relative term. Imagine having to endure Ligeti, about the most mechanistic, process-oriented and BORING of the post post moderns. Still, i like Ligeti...Babbitt has moments of glory, like this one..
¿A quién NO le va a gustar esta obra? Es phe-no-me-nal. No toda la obra de Babbitt es tan asequible como ésta, aunque toda su obra es interesante y variada. Un campo mucho más vasto que la repetición incesante de Steve Reich, el Glass y por supuesto todos los pos-modernitos con sus fusiones de esto y aquello, o pero aún, los que tratan de escribir música tonal, y ya ni pueden armonizar un pinche coral...
That's pretty close to my opinion! I find, to MY ears, that it encases variety, and then de-encases it (let's it OUT of the box), with astounding sense of PACE.
makes me crazy
You seem to refer to an article which he wrote in 1958.I refer to the documentary called "MILTON BABBITT Portrait by ROBERT HILFERTY (Director's cut)".I do not have any education in music but I find this music to be very listenable.If fact,the vocal lines in this piece remind me of American pop songs of the first half of the 20th century.It might be difficult when one tries it for the first time,but with repeated attempts it gets better,especially if one had heard Webern.
I'm still waiting for the credits to roll...
....Yeah! ...
@KhagarBalugrak Hateful/abusive content? You're kidding, right?
Yes, the pompous world of academia turns up their nose at him and poo-poohs his genius. Unless the academic world of classical western art music opens it's minds to composers such as Edgar Meyer and allow them the same sort of room as composers such as Christopher Theofanidis. Its self-dug hole will collapse and be lost due to its complete and utter irrelevancy. Just because someone makes money from their art doesn't mean it's a compromise.
Utterly inspired - much like Bach. I'm sure he heard every note in his head.
Babbit was not the kind to "hear every note in his head", he's more the kind to somehow come up with a structure that is flawless. He's like the mad scientist of music. He was very into mathematics.
@@musicfriendly12 the we should not be calling him a composer.
Trying to summon Bigfoot
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