[b]Ryuichi Sakamoto

Ennio Morricone?
Steve Reich maybe...

Karlheinz Stockhausen

www.stockhausen.org

Gyoergy Ligeti

www.gyoergy-ligeti.de (unfortunately not in English)

I should also mention Hans Werner Henze, Helmut Lachenmann, Wolfgang Rihm, Luciano Berio. Luigi Nono and John Cage are already dead. Reich and Glass have been listed.
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Nobody seems to like Bjork here huh?
I think she is amazing, just like Coldcut, Massive attack and Portishead (where are they???)

mistatee said:

I think the intention of the thread was to ask for modern days "classical" composers, not for pop stars.

As for Bjork, I think she is a wannabe. Her problem is that she is not skilled enough to be taken seriously in the "classical" scene, but her stuff is too sophisticated and complicated for the pop scene.

Cheek said:

I'm a Cheek fan.

CinisterCee said:

Would you like an autograph???

2freaky4church1 said:

PRINCE IS THE MASTER COMPOSER OF TODAY AND BY THE WAY PRINCE WANTS U TO GO SIT ON THE MOON SOMEWHERE IN THE UNIVRESE HA HA HA HA

Cheek said:

Yes. Gonna write me? I'm orgnoting my address.

EmancipationLover said:

I don't think she's trying to fit in with the classical scene either. She was trained in that style of music and jazz for 10 years, and starting when she was only 5 years old. All of her string and horn arrangements are done by her. And they're amazing. Ultimately, at the end of the day she makes pop records and she's admitted as much. I think the fact that she can take such eccentric and classical ideas and make them accessible to the critical and commercial public speaks to her huge songwriting talent.

heartbeatocean said:

I love pretty much everyone on your list above, including Bernstein of course.

I don't know John Zorn though.
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Brian Wilson's compositional talent remains one of the few in pop music today that is on par with that of a classical music composer's.

minneapolisgenius said:

John Zorn is an avant-garde composer who hails from NYC. He's still pretty young. He incorporates jazz, classical, punk, every genre basically to make extremely wild and difficult pieces for string quartets, violin solos, etc. I went to a festival of his music last year and loved it.

GangstaFam said:

Precisely why I respect Björk.

CinisterCee said:

I've got to listen to her more. Are any of her works more "classical" oriented than others?

heartbeatocean said:

All her shit with Brodsky Quartet...

YO, if you're on AOL instant messenger or Yahoo, you need to polly with me.

heartbeatocean said:

Sounds interesting.

CinisterCee said:

Almost all of "Homogenic" and "Vespertine" show her classical roots.

GangstaFam said:

Sorry, but I've never heard anything by Bjork that would qualify her as "classical composer". Maybe she has made allusions to classical music, but that's it.

EmancipationLover said:

I think people are saying she has classical roots and this appears as sophisticated "pop" music. All these categories can be deconstructed anyway, by the way. I clearly hear classical influence in Selma Songs.