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Current mood:  mellow Category: Music
Here's another message from a listener, totally different than the last one (who could not listen to the music):
Dear Nick, I haven't been able to get your music out of my head all day. I absolutely love what you have done to break the boundaries between classical and popular music. I am an 18 year old cellist going to SUNY Fredonia School of Music for Music Education, and I have been composing as well for about a year now. I love that your music is not only pleasing to the ear, but also technically interesting-- I just went to a concert for new music last night, and it was so frustrating because all the pieces had great intentions and musical content, but I just couldn't bear to listen because every single one of them was atonal and displeasing to the ear. Maybe its just me, but I feel like making music should be about evoking a particular response, and the language should be secondary, as a means to accomplish your goal. It really excites me the way you have cross pollinated the classical and musical worlds. I love both types of music, and I think that to often people from the "classical" community ignore or gloss over popular music, when it is popular music that actually has a fanbase. I especially enjoy how you've blended the two not only with instrumentation, but also with musical content. I listen to a lot of alternative cello music, and bands that play metal on cellos like Apocalyptica, and Break of Reality, but there simply playing popular music on classical instruments. You've wrapped both into a tight ball and created a new type of music! Anyways, I would love to play one of your pieces, but I'm not quite sure if I can put together a group of guitar, cello, percussion, and voice etc. That's why I'm wondering if I could play your string quartet. Do you have sheet music, or a recording? I'm in a string quartet, and I know that we would all love to read a piece of yours (once I tell them about you) and possibly perform it. On another note, if you ever write a piece for solo cello, or cello with accompaniment, please let me know! I'm craving new music to add to my repetoir that won't make people cringe when they hear it. Thank you for writing your music, for affecting the musical world in the way that you have, and for affecting me with your sounds. Keep writing! You're an inspiration. Isaac
3:06 AM
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