Not managed to find all that much of his yet; Missa's excellent ! Not too complex...you can just lap it up. Is it just me, or might that be a feature of quite a lot of US composers; hugely enjoyable without 'taxing' you too much ? May be why some experts, maybe even some here, don't have much time for some of them.
For example, I also greatly enjoyed the other American pieces in tonight's 'concert', particularly the Syler, but I fear few if any colleagues here will go out of their way to try it. Perhaps it, and I are just too simple for this forum ?
And on that dispirited note.....!
Possibly. It's a quality I've noticed in a good deal of contemporary American music, actually. Not that I dislike it - quite the contrary. It's nice to have something well-crafted and not cerebral to listen to sometimes.
The radio's giving me Kalinnikov before bed tonight; tomorrow I shall listen to more of my new Maltese holdings. So far I've listened to the first disc of 19th-century works. Quite attractive...entirely unmemorable, and somewhat old-fashioned in their time, perhaps, but very nicely put together. Frankly, I'm impressed...I had expected less. (The performances, on the other hand...)
