Very complex yet very modern. What a wonderful mix. Should be
downloaded by those who like both classical works and modern works --
the best of both worlds

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Wow, not only is this a fun piece to listen to, but I actually liked your re-
orchestration of it. OK, I'm a sucker for Dvorak, but your choice and
restrained use of silly modern instruments definitely sounded like the
great W/W Carlos, very cool! As always, the actual quicktime instruments
used here seem a bit lo-fi and the mix seems to miss the low and high
end... re-rendering with clearer fuller-sounding versions of those
instruments would be great. Good taste in music, sir! :-) And I always
love your anecdotes in the descriptions.
ttfn,
Drakonis

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Okay, made that word up but this does remind me of something
Keith Emerson would have done with this piece. Given that I think
the genre is entirely appropriate. Great sound and I really enjoyed
it.

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No! No! No! Here I am trying to have classical music appeal to a younger audience, and you geezers reveal your age by comparing me to these people who were popular over 35-years ago.

(Explanation to youngsters: Wendy Carlos became famous for one of the first albums of synthesized music, "Switched-On Bach," in 1968. This accomplishment was all the more remarkable as the early synthesizers, handmade only by the late Robert Moog, were capable of producing only one note at a time, so the music required dozens of overdubs on an 8-track reel-to-reel analog tape recorder. As far as I can tell, Ms. Carlos hasn't released any music in 20 years.

Keith Emerson played a Hammond B-3 organ in an English rock band, The Nice. In a later group, he performed some pop arrangements of the classics. I never cared for his music, and I can recall chuckling over the fact that the Bartók Foundation sued him --and collected a handsome sum-- after Emerson released an album in 1970 with a piece he called his own, "The Barbarian," but which was only a note-for note rendering of "Allegro Barbaro," a piano piece by Bélla Bartók, whose music is still under copyright.)

To bring you dinosaurs up to date, here are some people who have been doing more recent electronic arrangements of the classics:
In the late 1980s, Don Dorsey released several albums of classics, mostly music of J. S. Bach, on the TELARC label. This was done before the development of the modern software we now enjoy, and the arrangements are thus somewhat simple and straightforward -- actually a giant-step backward from the fine efforts of Isao Tomita 20-years before. Adequate playing, but he shows little imagination.

In 2000, William Orbit, who has produced many of Madonna's albums, released "Pieces in a Modern Style," an album of synthesized arrangements of a wide-variety of classical music -- even a piece by John Cage is included. I had known of Mr. Orbit from his series of albums, "Strange Cargo," and his music is not unlike some of the efforts posted at this site -- stunning and overwhelming sounds, but the music itself is simple and insubstantial -- not much happening. Much of the music on "Pieces in a Modern Style" relies on spacey effects. That works well for the famous "Adagio" for strings by Samuel Barber, but to my ears, the album lacks the excitement of classical music and is more of an easy-listening album.

Not a classical musician at all is the man I believe is the creative master of music in our time, Foetus. He has quotes of classical music in his diabolic creations, and some of his albums have long tracks which feature all the complexities of classical music.

If you compare my efforts to Foetus, I'll relish the compliment, but you old people should stay on the pages with lethargic easy-listening pieces.

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>No! No! No! Here I am trying to have classical music appeal to a
>younger audience, and you geezers reveal your age by comparing me
>to these people who were popular over 35-years ago.

How old do you think I am? Do you really care or are you just making
lazy assumptions based upon your own prejudices? It's attitudes like
yours that prevent any audience being turned onto classical music!
Besides, Emerson may have been popular 35 years ago but he's still
producing music today so he's hardly irrelevant.

>To bring you dinosaurs up to date, here are some people who have
>been doing more recent electronic arrangements of the classics:
>In the late 1980s, Don Dorsey released several albums of classics,
>mostly music of J. S. Bach, on the TELARC label. This was done before
>the development of the modern software we now enjoy, and the
>arrangements are thus somewhat simple and straightforward --
>actually a giant-step backward from the fine efforts of Isao Tomita 20-
>years before. Adequate playing, but he shows little imagination.

Don't patronise me (or anyone else for that matter) by assuming that I
know nothing of the field you're talking about. I used Keith Emerson as
an example because his stuff is what your track reminded me of most,
not because he was the only musician I could think of. You put the track
in the Progressive Rock genre, not me. If you didn't want comparisons to
prog rock artists then choose another genre. Unfortunately you can't
dictate to others what your music reminds them of… it doesn't work that
way!

>In 2000, William Orbit, who has produced many of Madonna's albums,
>released "Pieces in a Modern Style," an album of synthesized
>arrangements of a wide-variety of classical music -- even a piece by
>John Cage is included. I had known of Mr. Orbit from his series of
>albums, "Strange Cargo," and his music is not unlike some of the
>efforts posted at this site -- stunning and overwhelming sounds, but
>the music itself is simple and insubstantial -- not much happening.
>Much of the music on "Pieces in a Modern Style" relies on spacey
>effects. That works well for the famous "Adagio" for strings by Samuel
>Barber, but to my ears, the album lacks the excitement of classical
>music and is more of an easy-listening album.

Why do you keep listing artists you don't like? What's the point? And I'd
say that your track sounds more like Emerson than Orbit any day. That's
purely an opinion but it's based on considerable experience with both
artists.

>Not a classical musician at all is the man I believe is the creative master
>of music in our time, Foetus. He has quotes of classical music in his
>diabolic creations, and some of his albums have long tracks which
>feature all the complexities of classical music. If you compare my
>efforts to Foetus, I'll relish the compliment, but you old people should
>stay on the pages with lethargic easy-listening pieces.

I don't know Foetus so I can't compare your stuff to his, or vice versa. I
could have compared it to Cartoon, Paul Lansky, Michael Neil, or Britney
Spears, but I didn't because I didn't think it sounded like any of those
artists. And as for me being an old person, I expect I'm younger than
you. And maybe next time someone likes your music and takes the time
to write a comment you should just keep your mouth shut and take the
compliment.

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"You never say please. You never say thank you."
"Please don't be an idiot. Thank you."
-- Bayliss and Pembleton

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