I'm not a pedestrian listener and to hear music that sounds like it has no form, doesn't appear to modulate smoothly between keys or even keeping time and it would help if they listened to one another and tuned their instruments as well.
Isn't Kenny G a jazz musician? He actually sounds like easy listening to me.
Sorry,
The comment was made in general. I wasn’t directing it at you.
How many concertos have “ad libitum” soli for the featured instrument? These were meant to be ad lib solos, yet somewhere along the way - it became habit to perform the ad lib sections as written.
There is a young pianist whose name escapes me - that has reversed this trend.
Common chord progressions and composition by “the rules” does not imply great music, any more than atonality, dense chords and dissonance imply bad music.
I tend to like music that resolves to a surprise chord - rather than the one it’s “supposed” to.
Sorry,
The comment was made in general. I wasn’t directing it at you.
How many concertos have “ad libitum” soli for the featured instrument? These were meant to be ad lib solos, yet somewhere along the way - it became habit to perform the ad lib sections as written.
There is a young pianist whose name escapes me - that has reversed this trend.
Common chord progressions and composition by “the rules” does not imply great music, any more than atonality, dense chords and dissonance imply bad music.
I tend to like music that resolves to a surprise chord - rather than the one it’s “supposed” to.