Dixon Hill

He's a cool guy.

Anyone else think Rick Beato's perfect pitch kid is the next John Williams?

In the 21st century it is reasonable for a composer to view the entirety of our musical history as their playground, and at any time it is unreasonable to expect a composer to build their work entirely from the ground up. That said there is much to draw from between the era of Miss Deutscher's chosen idiom and the present. I wouldn't wish for her to neglect that, particularly since the most reliable method of forging new ways is the combination of so many disparate old ways. Why you have to seemingly take it to the point of "nothing worthwhile has been done since Strauss" type polemics, or worse, revert to the idea that an art form can hit some evolutionary wall beyond which nothing will matter (are you a Boulez fan? I wager not, and yet...) is what's "truly puzzling" here though perhaps I've misunderstood your apparent distrust of "post modern" tastes.

I put thought into my post. Perhaps you could be bothered to in turn respond more cogently - and less predictably. Perhaps not.

I don't hear anything resembling Shore's voice in that but who knows.

She has obvious talent but she's writing music pretty squarely within an idiom in vogue about 120 years ago. That she does it at her age is impressive but many with the knack of composition can set their imagination wandering in an established musical language that they know well and churn out material. If, in 10 or 15 years, her talent has continued to increase, she's seen that to write beautiful music doesn't have to mean to write the music of fin de siecle Vienna, and her own distinctive compositional voice emerged, that will be something to talk about. If this is ultimately her music though, that's all well and good, but to me less exciting than someone speaking one of the many more contemporary musical tongues with such aplomb at an early age - that would be one who could "carry" a century. Nothing against the lass herself and her accomplishments of course, but as it stands it's a 60 Minutes "culture" piece for dilettantes - now noticing it actually was featured on 60 Minutes. There you have it. Always the search for the "next Mozart," always a yearning for glories of the past and a blindness to reality and the beauties right in front of us. Simple way of looking at things I think but that's what something like 60 Minutes and clickbaity "inspirational young prodigy" videos are all about.

Susan may not have been anything great as a character but she was worth it for her family.

Before I learned to recognize Larry's humor I couldn't have told you when he left the show. No change in quality if you ask me, just a slightly different flavor.

So, how often do you and Joe exchange dick pics?

What Joe gets wrong is not his opinion - he can feel what he feels however ridiculous I may think it is. Rather it's his overly assured way of delivering those opinions that does him a disservice. One gets the sense that this is not a man sharing what he feels but a man who is demanding that you feel the same thing. As Jay recently pointed out this is a key JWFan snag and often the root of arguments.

Praying for you Joe.

You know, if Drax were here he'd say you're an irrational, illogical human.

It's always funnier when someone says it's not funny.

JWFan Millennial. Have we ever had such a high goody two shoes population before? This is why Drax offed himself.

KM?

Yes.

Best to put Josh on ignore, Joe. He's the worst type of human.

Ah go on then, do me in ya bastard cowards!

Congratulations to Jay and all others involved, and everyone who was desperately hoping for this release. These specialty labels are doing wonderful things for this art form and its fans.

It's good campy fun for all ages.

The La Jolla Quartet is really something.

Anyone else listening to Star Trek Generations on a loop?

And will surely act better.

Yep. Very early days for him. Let's see how things develop. Watch career great interest etc. I've seen you dish out your fair share of it.

Should I check that one out?