This is rich, strange, endlessly fascinating music: a subtle, beautiful triumph.
While this does makes for an extensive and fascinating music collection, the resulting mash of nameless tracks, albums without cover art, and songs with the title of the album in the song title ("Yanni – Ethnicity – Almost A Whisper.mp3," for example), is hardly conducive to absolute listening pleasure.
Adamo has an active enough mind to make fascinating music from the simplest possible material.
These durations would mean nothing, of course, if they were not filled with fascinating music.
Headliners Koreless and Jackmaster have both been making and playing fascinating music for years, but there are some equally great newer names further down the bill.
There is the festival proper, tilted toward the avant-garde but including all sorts of fascinating music, theater, dance and film.
Not only would we be without some of the most fascinating music of the last half-century, but everyone else's music would also be different, for Mr. Boulez's influence as a composer has been ubiquitous.
It seems strange that there has been a long-running debate about whether Bach — who composed some of the most profound, original and fascinating music ever written (albeit while using established techniques and forms) — should be deemed a musical conservative.
And, though they claim to embrace a wide swath of music, cycles are symptomatic of the past century's thinning of the repertory, one that has squeezed out much fascinating music and left behind only the most pre-sanctioned of classics.
After far too long spent quizzing 20-something herberts, one of the most fascinating music interviews I ever did was with two elderly Louisianans, Luderin Darbone, 91, and accordionist 93 year-old Edwin Duhon, who formed their Cajun band The Hackberry Ramblers in 1932, and got their first and only Grammy nomination in 1997.
