Word: tonalists
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...music he loves best in smaller cities and with regional orchestras. Yes, that includes Saint-Saens, Rachmaninoff and all the other romantic concerto merchants beloved of tradition-minded concertgoers. But his huge repertoire also includes an astonishing variety of other works, among them the challenging yet accessible "new tonalist" music of American composer Lowell Liebermann, the vaporously lyrical cameos of Spanish miniaturist Federico Mompou and Hough's own twinkling transcription of Rodgers and Hammerstein's My Favorite Things...
Performers take to New Tonalist pieces like pols to an open mike, but many critics bristle at the pieces' crowd-pleasing traditionalism. An unsympathetic Dallas reviewer brushed off Liebermann's unabashedly tuneful Second as "excruciatingly conventional." Retorts the composer: "That's like criticizing a novelist because his grammar is correct...
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