RE: New Thread: Classical Music Influences on Us

["Christensen, Mark" <mchriste@jaguar.middlebury.edu>]

> "love bartok.
> listen to the string quartets regularly."

me too!

> Also, it is more abstract (please pardon my loose definition, Tom ;-)
> but have you guys/gals checked out 'Threnody for the Victims 
> of Hiroshima'
> by Krzysztof Penderecki?
> 

i actually played a gig a couple years ago where the opeing act was a live
orchestra playing just that piece.  tough one to follow.

m.c.