Classical Music
- Elliott Carter – Three Occasions for Orchestra (1986–9); Violin Concerto
- Einar Englund – Wind Quintet
- Karel Goeyvaerts –
- Aquarius, stage cantata, for eight sopranos and 15 instrumentalists
- …want de tijd is nabij (Because the Time Is Near), for male chorus and strings
- John McCabe – String Quartet No. 5
- Einojuhani Rautavaara – Piano Concerto No. 2
- Robert Simpson – String Quartet No. 13; Vortex for Brass Band
- John Tavener – The Protecting Veil
- I Nyoman Windha – Puspanjali
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Famous quotes related to classical music:
“The basic difference between classical music and jazz is that in the former the music is always greater than its performance—Beethoven’s Violin Concerto, for instance, is always greater than its performance—whereas the way jazz is performed is always more important than what is being performed.”
—André Previn (b. 1929)
“Compare the history of the novel to that of rock ‘n’ roll. Both started out a minority taste, became a mass taste, and then splintered into several subgenres. Both have been the typical cultural expressions of classes and epochs. Both started out aggressively fighting for their share of attention, novels attacking the drama, the tract, and the poem, rock attacking jazz and pop and rolling over classical music.”
—W. T. Lhamon, U.S. educator, critic. ‘Material Differences,’ Deliberate Speed: The Origins of a Cultural Style in the American 1950s, Smithsonian (1990)