Originally posted by Blotto
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For someone such as myself attempting to come to terms with current compositions ( and I do agree with Eliot Carter that that may be the only music worth listening to), there is the first hurdle to cross of being familiar enough with the genre, that no matter what the composer may throw at you, it is possible to stay with the composition, and not lose the continuity/ contiguity of the piece. But the more difficult hurdle is to say OK I hear what the composer is saying, but for reasons to be identified, unfortunately on this particular occasion, the composer failed to make his case. It takes a brave man to go against the view of the cognoscenti.
But, on an initial hearing, I quite liked the Rihm.
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