You realize that what links these two distant composers is more striking that what separates them.
As such, it has a mechanical efficiency that makes one pine for the distant days when composers and lyricists came up with original ideas for musicals.
This code was so strictly enforced that in 1810 G.A. Rimsky-Korsakov, a distant relation of the composer, was discharged from the Preobrazhensky Regiment for unbuttoning the top button of his uniform at a dinner following a ball.
Throughout you could hear distant echoes of the film composer David Raksin, but with the strain of noirish melodrama overwhelmed by layered, bebop harmonies that didn't stray into abrasive dissonance; minor keys prevailed.
He gravitates toward the late 19th and early 20th centuries, when tonality was coming unhinged and composers were discovering distant worlds of sound.
Indeed, it is often claimed that even after his 100th birthday Carter's work-rate continued to accelerate, to a pace he had never achieved before.Of the great composers of the distant past, the surest comparison is with Joseph Haydn, whose long career, classical bent, and indefatigable humour and inventiveness Carter shared.
Neither Elgar nor Vaughan Williams left any kind of following or tradition, but Vaughan Williams's resort to the distant past at least provided later composers with a route.
I think that all modern composers are working under a distant common influence, a musician we are talking about less nowadays.
These are not works from distant eras, after all, but scores by composers who either still walk among us or — as with Schoenberg and Webern — were alive within the memories of some older performers.
An ambitious young composer goes in search of a "distant sound," turning away from the woman who loves him.
