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I have a thread running on pre 20th century composers.

Here is the follow up - what are your fave 20th century composers?

I'm going Shostakovich and Philip Glass.

Oh, and Leonard Bernstein and George Gershwin.

Palindromeman 7 Apr 23
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George Gershwin, Cole Porter, Scott Joplin, Rogers & Hammerstein, Kander & Ebb, Henry Mancini, Leonard Cohen.

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Ralph Vaughn Williams, Shostakovich, Arvo Part

Arvo Part - respect, man.

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Duke Ellington, Thelonious Monk, Don Ellis.

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Rachmaninoff, Puccini, Gershwin, Prokofiev, Berlin, Kern, Rodgers, Porter, Steiner, Korngold, Rosza, Tiomkin, Rota, Williams, L. Bernstein, E. Bernstein

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Aaron Copeland and Knut Nystedt.

Copeland. Good one. The common man needs more fanfare.

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Hans Zimmer

Ja!

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Do you include Rachmaninoff in the 20th century? He died in 1943. In a different genre was Duke Ellington, a true jazz master.

I think we can be flexible about this. The Rach does seem to me to be 20th century.

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I like Shostakovich.

The Brodsky Quartet did an amazing set of his string quartets:

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