I bought transcriptions of some ELP pieces a few years ago. The complexity of so many of their creations was even more evident when you read the musical transcriptions.
And to think they were in their 20's when they created the bulk of their work. All three of them monster talents.
#5 | Posted by AMERICANUNITY at 2025-04-02 06:37 PM
My dad really loved some excellent music. I was leaning hard into classical and minimal composition - I was a strange kid, so when I heard his music it was obvious I was witnessing a logical evolution. A convergence. The performances were familiar and stylized radical mixtures of curated theory imitating improvisation. I particularly responded to the evolution of electronic sound effects in television commercials and cartoons. Techno is baroque laser zaps.
That said, my father would have preferred more Ian Anderson than Jean-Pierre Rampal.:/ But it gets easier to accept that Ian taught himself to play in weeks and created his very own impressive, radical style.
