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Re:The Sad, Beautiful Fact That We're All Going To Miss Almo... by muhfuhkuh on Tuesday April 19, 2011 @10:21PM (#2465014)
"would you throw anyone from the last 100 years into the mix?"

Carl Orff, John Williams, Danny Elfman, Hans Zimmer.

For more individual achievements, Zack Hemsey for "Mind Heist" (aka the song from Inception) and Clint Mansell for "Lux Aeterna" (aka the Requiem for a Dream song).

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Re:The Sad, Beautiful Fact That We're All Going To Miss Almo... by autarch on Wednesday April 20, 2011 @12:35AM (#2465263)
<doublecough>Copland, Barber, Ned Rorem, James MacMillan, Britten, George Crumb, Joseph Schwantner, John Adams, William Bolcom, John Corigliano, Dominick Argento, Charles Ives, ...

There's a lot more to modern composition than film music and Carmina Burana.

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Re:The Sad, Beautiful Fact That We're All Going To Miss Almo... by zzeroparticle on Tuesday April 19, 2011 @10:26PM (#2465026)
Sergei Rachmaninoff should be added to this list since I've yet to encounter any pianist who didn't have a glowing reaction to any of the Rachmaninoff Piano Concertos. Especially Piano Concerto #2 which ranks up there as being one of my top 10 favorite pieces of music.
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Re:The Sad, Beautiful Fact That We're All Going To Miss Almo... by alphakappa on Tuesday April 19, 2011 @10:32PM (#2465035)
Not to mention an incredible array of composers from the non-Western world.
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Re:The Sad, Beautiful Fact That We're All Going To Miss Almo... by patrickk on Wednesday April 20, 2011 @09:57AM (#2466590)
For me, the track "Time" from the Inception soundtrack is mind-blowing.

Listen to it with good quality earphones and tell me it doesn't send chills down your spine.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0kGAz6HYM8

EDIT: link

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Re:The Sad, Beautiful Fact That We're All Going To Miss Almo... by zb on Tuesday April 19, 2011 @11:17PM (#2465114)
<cough> Stravinsky?
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Re:The Sad, Beautiful Fact That We're All Going To Miss Almo... by bhoung on Wednesday April 20, 2011 @09:15AM (#2466440)
scanning through the text, your name jumps out at me, which makes me ask myself what kind of HN consumer would call themselves that... to which the answer is, one with high average points karma
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