György Ligeti - RIP

[Hyperspeed]

2001: A Space Odyssey... now there's a boring film, no wonder the monkeys were killing each other. I thought the music from that was Vivaldi or Gustav Holst.

If you ask me, John Williams will be classed as a genius to future generations. Not very 'arty farty' but his music always seems to make a difference to a film - gives it that air of urgency, magic, gentleness and wonder.

[Hyperspeed]

When I listen to orchestral music it oftens bores the living daylights out of me. However I do visualise how each section of the piece could be applied to a particular scene in a movie and suddenly everything becomes interesting.

Maybe this is what John Williams likes to do, maybe everyone does this - inspiration is a great way to lead.

I must say Requiem is rather beyond my imagination.

I have attended performances of Karl Jenkins' work (a modern British composer), his 'The Armed Man' with it's 9/11 sequence is quite rousing. He's done a lot of tunes for commercials (people in the UK would recognise the little boy diving for pearls on the insurance advert) and has sold Platinum.

Get a few tunes of his, it's somewhere between classical and modern reference music.

Oddly, I like Celtic music like Enya's stuff too.