Who is your favourite living composer?

I'm not even sure he qualifies. More than being living, he basically transcends life.

seriously.. I don't think he'll ever die.

Also.. I am guessing that in 60 years, all the cool kids will dig him.

Arvo Part.. Who's heard Siluans song? ooooof

Sam Sadigursky is pretty darn good at what he does... His 'Words Project' albums are really tight jazzy art songs. I really enjoy these.

https://www.newamsterdamrecords.com/#Album/Words_Project_II

(you can listen by clicking the song titles)

My favourite composer is, without a doubt, Howard Goodall.

Have you heard his Enchanted Voices.

You can hear an excerpt on the Classic FM website.

easily Nobuo Uematsu

Out of non-incidental music probably John Adams or Arvo Part.

I second John Adams. Ellen Zwilich is nice, too.

I am also now ready to say Harrison Birtwistle and (please don't hurt me) Elliot Carter! (The latter more on the strength of his neoclassical works.)

Living composer?

Christopher Theofanidis.

David Shaffer, and alfred reed, duh and me lol

David Shaffer, and alfred reed, duh and me lol

Frank Ticheli > David Shaffer f'sho. I do like Alfred Reed though. :)

Sorry.

David Shaffer, and alfred reed, duh and me lol

Spoken like a true band geek. Except...

Alfred Reed (January 25, 1921

Ellen Zwilich is nice, too.

FSU represent!

Magnus Lindberg

People, please post more than a name.

And post more than a name and an article or conjunction.

DISCUSS the topic.

Why is this composer your favourite.

What has the composer done that merits attention.

Right now, some of these posts are bordering on "deletable" for the brevity.

Put your verbal skills into action somewhere OTHER than the shoutbox and the off-topic forum.

Ok...

Going back to my post then:

I second John Adams. Ellen Zwilich is nice, too.

I am also now ready to say Harrison Birtwistle and (please don't hurt me) Elliot Carter! (The latter more on the strength of his neoclassical works.)

Adams - I really like his relatively new post-Klinghoffer language. Very original and very personal. The degree of chromaticism and harmonic complexity allows it to transcend silly stereotypes of minimalistic music. That isn't to say his earlier stuff isn't great, too.

Zwilich - I'm no postmodernist, but I like the fusion of different kinds of music in her music (which, I guess, some might say is a demonstrate that there are no "kinds", anyway). It sounds funky.

Harrison Birtwistle - Awesome. Is that a good enough reason?

Elliot Carter - I'm just beginning to understand him. Well, no, not really, I'm just fooling myself. But his music sounds nice. Personally, I'm more a fan of his earlier, neoclassical works, but his string quartets are genius.