This is mostly addressed to Milton Parker, whose knowledge of the New Music warrants my deep respect. There are any number of archive sites for canonical names in modern composition, but I haven't encountered many that focus on current recordings. The final chapter of The Rest is Noise made me realise just how dated my knowledge of had become, formed mostly by John Schaefer's book, Blue "Gene" Tyranny's reviews for an old AMG, and occasionally peeking in at Kalvos and Damian. Few of the names were familiar, I went in search of things like Der Gerettete Alberich, only to find fragments.
I know that this field is as fragmented as popular music, but my overviews are over a decade old. Who is a trusted canon maker that can point me to the potentially important? I'm fairly positive that there's more than Max Richter detritus to hunt down.
― Deliquescing (Derelict), Monday, 26 October 2009 01:39 (fifteen years ago)