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thesweetcheat
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Re: Revolutions are celebrated when they are no longer dangerous
Sep 23, 2010, 09:07
IanB wrote:
The minimalists are interesting because like the Serlialists some of their ideas have been adopted and turned into pablum by film score writers and house / chill out artists. Think of for example the American Beauty score which was then ripped by everyone in American tv all the way to the core of the mainstream - Desperate Housewives etc. So everyone gets a spoonful of Reich's Six Marimbas (for example) watered right down so it doesn't upset anyone. It's like sax players on rock records who dare to overblow for a few bars.


Yes, that's true. I suppose Glass (and Nyman) have been responsible for bringing minimalist film scores into popular acceptance.

I hate sax players on rock records, generally. Especially that 80s thing where "New Wave" groups seemed to think it was obligatory, e.g. the terrible re-recording of "Pretty In Pink" for the film of the same name.

Saxophone is far better used on ska records!
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