Although he had long been respected as one of the top conductors in the field, in the 1990s some critics were willing to canonize Stanislaw Skrowaczewski as one of the world's greatest composers as well. Although his music had the earmarks of contemporary European style, the underpinnings of his structural concepts had a natural flow to it, and Skrowaczewski was not allergic to some measure of tonal referencing; his music was technically reflective of late 20th century trends, beautifully orchestrated and relatively easy to ...
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Although he had long been respected as one of the top conductors in the field, in the 1990s some critics were willing to canonize Stanislaw Skrowaczewski as one of the world's greatest composers as well. Although his music had the earmarks of contemporary European style, the underpinnings of his structural concepts had a natural flow to it, and Skrowaczewski was not allergic to some measure of tonal referencing; his music was technically reflective of late 20th century trends, beautifully orchestrated and relatively easy to follow. Moreover, in 1999 it looked like Skrowaczewski was going to get recognition of a kind he had long sought in the form of a Pulitzer Prize for his Concerto for orchestra. But the Pulitzer went instead to Melinda Wagner, and after the dawn of the new millennium things began to change; certain concerns, both artistic and technical, considered all important to the late 20th century were no longer viewed predominantly constituting the center of the classical music universe....
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