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Friday Fun Thread for March 3, 2023

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Try John Adams, his works are used extensively in the soundtrack of the computer game Civilization 4. In particular The People are the Heroes Now from the opera Nixon in China, Chairman Dances or Shaker Loops.

For a more avant-garde (and repetitive) sound there is Philip Glass: Runaway Horses from the A Life in Four Chapters movie soundtrack, Pruitt Igoe from Koyaanisqatsi movie soundtrack, or the opera Einstein on the Beach.

Yeah Hallelujah Junction and Life in the mountains are favourites. But I thought maybe as a movie-goer I was missing an entire iceberg of music that only people who regularly go to classical concerts know, but apparently film scores are it.

There exists, but I didn't want to recommend something I personally don't like. Putting that aside, there are György Ligeti and Karlheinz Stockhausen, maybe you will find them to your taste.

Thank you. But what the shit? My ears are not that sophisticated.