Contemporary Classical Composers - new discoveries

I love Simpson, but I was just noting that the OP had made an arbitrary cut off that he wanted currently living composers.  I would be more than happy to have a separate thread devoted to composers active after 1920

Oups! i must delete all my posts then....

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@mahler123 we may be missing out so let’s not worry about that criteria. The thread has evolved beyond it and I think it’s great.

@mahgister went thru few of your recommendations.

I’m familiar with Philip Glass’ work and wanted to give him another chance thinking it’s been years and may be something changed in me and I will love it. He’s still not one of my favorites although I admire the minimalist style and don’t hate it. Just don’t love it.
I enjoyed Robert Simpson’s string quartets and am going thru some of his other work. Thank you!

Going to go listen to this young lass later this month...

’The Peel’s acoustics suck for bands and such, but for soloists’ ? Better... ;)

Smashing Pumpkins? You couldn’t hear the person next to you SHOUTING.

Leo Kottke? Great, thanks.

...and with Jiji, we get to sit. In chairs...and not just at the bar....*LOL*

The Symps' 'ALT' programs are fun diversions....(and affordable...👍).

I think the big division occurs between Modernists who were deliberately trying to break with previous generations, and those that viewed their music as part of the long tradition.

  The Second Viennese School still sounds pretty radical to my ears.  It is interesting that the likes of Webern and Berg were contemporaneous with Rachmaninov , Sibelius and Vaughn Williams 

  I really enjoy Walter Piston and American composers who followed in his wake,such as Copland, Bernstein, Diamond, Perischetti, Schuman, Harris.  Over the pond Simpson and Rawsthorne.  In Russia after Shostakovich and Vainberg Schnittke and Gulbaidulina.  From Poland Bacewicz.