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- From: gtaylor@vme.heurikon.com (Gregory Taylor)
- Newsgroups: rec.music.misc,rec.music.classical
- Subject: Re: Sky and (guitarist) John Williams
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- Date: 31 Dec 92 15:22:15 GMT
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- In article <n8qrnt@lynx.unm.edu> lazlo@triton.unm.edu (Lazlo Nibble) writes:
- >I've seen a few solo guitar recordings by John Williams lately. Is this
- >the same John Williams that was/is in Sky, or are there two guitar-playing
- >John Williamses out there?
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- Same guy, Mr. N. That recent Takemitsu disc on Sony is pretty nice,
- of the lot that I've heard (if you're into 20th century reasonably
- non-atonal but still gestural work. The short arrangements by Takemitsu
- are pretty nice - he's a self-taught composer *and* a guitarist, too....)
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- With regards,
- Gregory
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