Those who feel that contemporary classical music has offered little in the last four decades might find this work an approachable portal into relevant new music. Writing a piece with no dissonance wasn't what I set out to do, but it comes close. It begins slowly and gradually gets faster and faster until it ends really in a whirl of prestissimo music. It's just the notion of a state of almost limitless bliss. If they want to make it into a secular piece, that's fine.
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There are no good words anymore that haven't been appropriated for some purpose other than what they were originally invented for. So the cynic in him remains. But on the other hand there's always the one little ray of hope that somehow things will work out well in the end. I guess I am an agnostic pessimist, in the sense that I am not really sure that pessimism is the ultimate truth. All rights reserved.