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[Elizabeth Bear]

Lau, then? All the pianists I know are overachievers.

Whatever the answer is--*g*--it'll come up eventually.

[txanne]

Whatever the answer is--*g*--it'll come up eventually.

TexAnne pokes wall, wall is uninformative. All is right in the Universe.

[glinda_w]

Lau, then? All the pianists I know are overachievers.

Whatever the answer is--*g*--it'll come up eventually.

*thinks about it for a bit*

If I were to dare guess (knowing how well this group of authors can surprise me) I'd think Falkner.

[BruceCohenPDX]

I wouldn't be at all surprised if Brady plays the piano, though probably not classical music.  There's a lot of interesting stuff locked up inside our boy there.  The really well-contained ones always have depths to them.

As for tone-row music, I point out that Schönberg took several years to finish a piece that took a couple of minutes to play.  The rules were so horribly over-constrained that he estimated he might finish 2 or 3 more such pieces in his lifetime and leave nothing for future composers to do.  That seems somewhat self-defeating to me.

As for Cage, I saw him do one work that was actually interesting; it helped a lot that no sound was involved at all. */snark*

[redheaddread]

Lau, then? All the pianists I know are overachievers.

Wait, isn't Reyes the son of musicians?