[Conzumah]

My favorite modern musical artists are: TOOL, Nine Inch Nails, and Mr. Bungle.

and as for the classical composers, NO ONE will ever be able to top the genious of JS Bach. He ad libbed all of his fugues. if you know much about fugues, then you know that they are increadibly hard to compose when you have time to sit there and work it all out with a keybord, but this man just made them up off the top of his head. that's the reason we have so many of his organ peices, is because he played for the church, and everytime he played he had his students copying the three different parts of the fugue, and then they would compare notes and put the whole piece together. he had, what i think is, a complete mastery of music theory. which is truly amazing. Grainger was also a revolutionary, and if played correctly his peices can make me cry. i also love Elliot del Borgo. and of course Danny Elfman for his wondefully dark soundtracks (nightmare before christmas is one of my favorite movies). and last but not least is Phillip Glass. if any of you musicians out there haven't heard any of his stuff, go out and buy one of his cds, they are amazing.

black dragon, what do you play? I'm a classicaly trained saxophonist, turned jazz saxophonist. i was a music major for a couple of years in college until i realized that i could make quite a bit more money with computers.