Is symphonic music kind of like Phil Spector got hold of chamber music?


The title says it.

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In response to the above post by @twoleftears, let me say that Spector didn’t have a deep enough education in music theory and composition to have alone created his 1960’s recordings, with their relatively-sophisticated horn and string arrangements. It was Jack Nitzsche who wrote and arranged all those parts for Phil.

Jack Nitzsche later did the same for Buffalo Springfield, Neil Young (he’s the pianist on Neil’s Harvest album), The Stones, Randy Newman, The Tubes, Tim Buckley, and produced albums for Crazy Horse (their fantastic debut album), Mink DeVille, and Graham Parker. He also did some fine film soundtracks (One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, Performance, The Exorcist), and in 1972 did a very interesting album entitled St. Giles Cripplegate, a modern Classical composition that was performed by The London Symphony Orchestra conducted by David Measham. The album was issued on LP by The Initial Recording Company (catalog no. IRC 006) in England, and by Reprise Records in the U.S.A. (MS 2092).

I always enjoyed Jack Nitzsche's contributions to pop music. The contributions are a key component to the sounds of the era.

Hey, OP, how about some follow up?  Always appropriate.  Personally, it always feels manipulative when someone posts something of at least some controversy or possible misunderstanding and then disappears,  

Btw, re  **** I’m not so sure about that. Phill looks pretty damn old. ****

He should, he’s dead.

OP here. I was very curious to see what sort of replies I would get.  The original  notion just popped into my head as a silly little thing, but I thought it would be a provocative starting point for discussing chamber versus orchestral music. On the one hand, some folks seem upset by my post, while others can appreciate the humor in it. It’s been interesting that our  attention  has turned to Phil, who I don’t know too much about, and was interested to learn more about. I guess I hear some orchestral pieces as lush and overblown, And I know I like the sound of clearly heard instruments better than I like the combined sound of a bunch of instruments. That’s just me, and of course it’s no legitimate commentary on the merits of any particular type of music.

I have refrained from reacting to individual posts, since I did not want to appear judgemental or directive about what the threads were supposed to be about.