Contemporary Classical Composers - new discoveries

I performed of Maria Newman's choral work premieres at the Los Angeles Cathedral of the Lady of the Angels in 2018 with a chorus of about 100.  It is unfortunate it was not recorded and the acoustics were terrible (two secord reverb at the back of the huge church).  She has written so much beautiful music. 

As to Anna Clyne's cello work is very nice.

As to Takamitsu, I can listen to the shorter works but I won't spend an hour listening to what to me is sophisticated ramblings.  Maybe others will appreciate it more.   

Music as a spiritual experience is not always received in the same way by all people on all their paths.

Music is a galaxy if not a cosmos where any orbits define specific consciousness levels. Music is not reducible to taste.

Taste there is yes, but music is not about tastes.

It is about consciousness levels and there exist many mansions in the father realm said someone wiser than me.

Consciousness levels can not only be higher or lower compared to one another, they can be parallels. they even could be diverging and reconverging roads.

For me music is visible and invisible geometry.

Music is from the heart but even the heart has his own very precise geometry...I posted a video about the heart geometry and music in  the thread about sound and mystical experience .

@mahgister I just heard several of the first posts, long dead Armenian composer, Persian song and Feinberg (I already have the Feinberg recording).  All great, especially the Armenian choir.  I read your Pop music interest.  For me, I'm in love with 20th century pop music, 1900 to 1970 and then less so thereafter (my wife enjoys heavy metal up to Led Zeppelin-sounds great in my listening room but I'm not crazy about it).  My pop music extends back to 1900+ dixieland, blues and tin pan alley and nearly all jazz periods including modern compositions (post bop, rock/jazz and country if pre-1960s) and especially close to my heart, Yiddish song.  I have equally eclectic tastes.   Through jazz, I am still discovering new interpretations of classic pop songs both vocal and mostly instrumental.  

The problem with me is that music i loved i listen to it too often... Bach and Schutz and Monteverdi reach thousand of listening sessions each one during my long life... Jazz help me to break the spell...And falling in love with Bruckner, and scriabin helped me too ...

The music i like a lot, i listened to it more sparsely, but this music exceed vastly in numbers the music i love too much for sure than i could listen thanks to Persian and Indian music and Jazz other pieces than Bach or 15 and 16 centuries songs and choral music ...

In more popular music songs called pop, words and poetry matter very much at least if not much than music...

I like too much choral music to be immersed when young in pop music as were my friends...I prefered Dylan, Cohen and the french poet Leo Ferre to most because of poetry in these times ...

My first heard piece of music was small choral folks eighteen century french and anglo saxon songs picked at radio program each noon before even i can read... Choral music for me was beating everything else when young ...Obrecht and Josquin Des Prez put me in ectasy...All french flamish school in particular...

But i was excluded very young from the church choral because i cannot sang right; music is more a heart vibration some beat i felt or a a dancing geometry i look at more than a melody in time for me.... i guess that in choral works the beat as in Schutz Geistliche chor music, my favorite piece with the 8th book of madrigals by Monteverdi and all Bach choral music or the flowing geometry of the crowding voices in space were my obsession.

I imagine that my taste and journey and obsessions in music were caused by this handicap in music and my performance limitations.

I was fascinated and interested in acoustics more than in buying gear because of this habit of seeing music in space more than hearing it flowing in time ...Then i learned how to make any music stand up in space with headphones or speakers...

Bach beat all composers in geometric perfection, probably he wrote God music....Scriabin is a genius because he gave me a heart fractals demonically creative music he never used a recipe but reinvented his piano playings in this new fractals dimension space between tonal and atonal ... I was a Bruckner devotee because he pushed to perfection Bach geometry and cinematic almost movie like motivated music with a beat no one could ever recreated...Each Bruckner symphonies is for me a specific movie i can describe in details. I did it for the fifth the most "perfect" Bruckner symphonies... The most beautiful being the 6 the 7 the 8 and the 9... The 5 th was the most deep intellectually, for sure the 9th is the more tragic one... The 8 is between the 5 and 9 in beauty and perfection married together... The 6 and 7 are the more easy to listen and understand at first sight ...

Bruckner mastery of choral music was my introduction... At the Shubert level as Brahms...

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@mahgister I just heard several of the first posts, long dead Armenian composer, Persian song and Feinberg (I already have the Feinberg recording). All great, especially the Armenian choir. I read your Pop music interest. For me, I’m in love with 20th century pop music, 1900 to 1970 and then less so thereafter (my wife enjoys heavy metal up to Led Zeppelin-sounds great in my listening room but I’m not crazy about it). My pop music extends back to 1900+ dixieland, blues and tin pan alley and nearly all jazz periods including modern compositions (post bop, rock/jazz and country if pre-1960s) and especially close to my heart, Yiddish song. I have equally eclectic tastes. Through jazz, I am still discovering new interpretations of classic pop songs both vocal and mostly instrumental.

My only yiddisch inspired music love is The book of angels of Zorn... A genius for me...

@mahgister I get weepy watching Bogart in In A Lonely Place which stars Bruckner's symphony no.5, 4th movement.  Most Bruckner symphonies have great meaning to me as well.  

I have an acquaintance who is 84 and in feeble condition who needs to dispose of his about 800 to 1000 renaissance choral LPs. I am not an aficionado and if you are interested in an excellent collection at low cost, I can provide you with his contact information.  

For some brilliant religious Jewish choral music composed by a jazz/classical pianist in both lyrical and dramatic vein, this link Aminadav Aloni provides some free and great music.  He was like Beethoven of modern choral Jewish music whereby he used traditional/required thematic lyrics and music structures but developed them in a modern harmonic and rhythmic structure, incorporating jazz, pop and other modern forms. Search – HMSI  The S'Fatai Tiftach 13 choral works begin shrouded in mystery and extend to heartfelt and heartrending beauty.  Always with a hummable melody.

There are other live/current Jewish music composers who compose in grandiose schemes such as Meir Finkelstein (you apparently know Lucas Richman) and all jazz themes (jazz pianist and arranger) Chris Harden and all genres, Michael Issacson.