why dont you mix your music with different classical styles ? thats what i do and it works very very wel. im invited to greece next year. im from the netherlands.

wishes you al the best,

Bryan

even if you do use the computer ( notation programmes ) its stil fukin hard to get ur music out there.ur only a composer if you can composer without pc , so in your head and writing it down on paper. if not ? ur not accomplished composer. i like to cal these people ( most of them ) song writers.
anyways none of my concerns. i am doing well:) going to perform my new pianoconcerto in greece next year

Some people are abusive and say I’m arrogant; others are abusive and say I have a massive inferiority complex – the blatant contradiction, and the commonality of abuse, only confirm the harsh side of what I’m saying.

But I have said for years that it is better to make a realistic appraisal of your situation and go from there, than live in illusion. Even Caesar had setbacks, and he didn’t get out of the hole by being unrealistic about them. It is I believe a very positive thing indeed to face a bad culture with a creative reply. Many of the greatest artists of all time and every stripe took a dim view of their own time, as I do of ours.

I have met people in my cab who even have sen the video before meeting me, and liked it very much. Cab Industry people, and Classical music professionals willing to be themselves and not pseudonyms, have so far all been very congratulatory and positive.

Oh also to the doubters, I suggest you read what William Kraft said about the video, he is a well-respected American composer.

For the general, sane, public, I just point out how little surprised I am that some of these remarks are so surprisingly irrational and hostile… the hostility is completely in line with most of the video, from the first line Miss Imbach chose to use… apparently, if only I were willing to do what I don’t want to do, and write for Hollywood (John Williams advised me AWAY from that career, saying “I don’t think Hollywood is the place for a serious composer”) then I’d have a career; if only I didn’t have personality shortcomings, I’d be a success; yadda yadda.

I am living in the reality that you pretend doesn’t exist, in which the SF Symphony has not on any of the four seasons I have studied done more than 2% repertoire by living Americans; those with the hostility are living in a bubble. The hostile views are, in my opinion, left over from the Reagan and Bush years, during which the idea was developed that a person is wrong not to be successful in the terms that those monsters allowed – a time when some were teaching it takes “courage to be rich” but could not speak in proper English well enough even to say “the Democratic Party” but instead said “the Democrat Party.”

One of the attributes of our society is cruelty to those whose description of circumstances challenges their own PC idea of how everything is all good and nice. That was actually a movement in the Soviet Union, related to the topic I touched on at one point in the video. The Soviets were smart enough to refuse to condone it.

The video is getting a lot of views, very many more than anyone thought likely, and so far only this site, for some reason, has people who feel called upon to decry what I have said.

The modern day composer refuses to die!