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Purposeful Spirit

Music by Jeremy Beck -
heard by the late
HOWARD SMITH

'... I cannot help but admire an unfamiliar creative talent displaying assured composition while simultaneously avoiding atonality, minimalism, aleatory follies, electronics, musique concrète or the murky waters of crossover-ism.'

Jeremy Beck: Never Final, Never Gone. © 2008 Jeremy Beck

While I was not entirely 'over the moon' with these works of Jeremy Beck (Louisville, Kentucky), I cannot help but admire an unfamiliar creative talent displaying assured composition while simultaneously avoiding atonality, minimalism, aleatory follies, electronics, musique concrète or the murky waters of crossover-ism.

So why not 'over the moon'? It's personal. While writing this I listened to each item, from start to finish, three times...

Copyright © 27 December 2017 Estate of the late Howard Smith,
Masterton, New Zealand

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JEREMY BECK: NEVER FINAL, NEVER GONE

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