From 2008:
My friend Ethan Iverson, who plays piano with the Bad Plus, read my recent Wall Street Journal column about modern music, in which I mentioned in passing that “I don’t go in for crunch-and-thump music, nor do I care for the over-and-over-and-over-again minimalism of John Adams and Philip Glass, which puts me to sleep.” He promptly issued the following challenge on his blog: “Here’s an open invitation to Terry–who, after all, is a current collaborator with modernist composer Paul Moravec: what about a list of classical music since 1950 that he finds interesting? It should be a list of music that is neither twelve-tone or minimalist, nor particularly ‘crunch and thump.’”
Here goes, straight off the top of my head….
Read the whole thing here.
