RE: David Cope/EMI (Was:Mozart's 42nd - yeah, right)

[Bruce Petherick <b.petherick@vc.unimelb.edu.au>]

At 14:44 26/05/98 -0700, you wrote:
>.  I have David
>Cope's latest CD, "Classical Music Composed By Computer," and find at least
>parts of it to be engaging.  His Sonata "after Beethoven" combining
>elements of the Moonlight sonata with Bach harmonies was actually quite
>affecting.  Maybe he has taken the concept a little bit too far, but it is
>at least interesting.  One of the stranger pieces combines Mozart with
>Balinese gamelan.  The performances on the CD, btw, are by live performers,
>so maybe their "human" input helped.

I forgot to say before that the worst part of the first Cope CD was that
everything was being performed by computer, and that the piano was
horrible:->  Human perfomers make soooooo much difference....
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