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- noun One who works in the style of
postminimalism .
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Examples
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This, he reasoned, was the natural response of artists rethinking their relationship to content, largely via conceptual art and postmodern approaches to image-making, and engagements with space and context that would come to be defined with terms like "postminimalist" and "expanded field."
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If I ever was put in charge of the Pops, the first thing I'd do is commission a whole bunch of those young-gun postminimalist pop-influenced composers out there to do arrangements of their favorite songs — not for the orchestra to back up said acts, but as the sort of stand-alone pieces that Fiedler used to do.
The Dangling Conversation Matthew Guerrieri 2007
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If I ever was put in charge of the Pops, the first thing I'd do is commission a whole bunch of those young-gun postminimalist pop-influenced composers out there to do arrangements of their favorite songs — not for the orchestra to back up said acts, but as the sort of stand-alone pieces that Fiedler used to do.
Archive 2007-05-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2007
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Writes Peter Margasak, "the group delivers some serious rhythmic thunder, with driving ostinatos setting the stage for postminimalist horn riffing, cross-cutting grooves, and generous improvisations."
Chicago Reader 2010
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Tenured composition faculty, even when they are receptive to postminimalist students, are unlikely to have much depth in minimalism and postminimalism.
Sequenza21/ 2010
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For one thing, the distribution infrastructure for minimalist and postminimalist music is very weak compared to that for other styles.
Sequenza21/ 2010
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A postminimalist is better off staying in the respectable territory that John Adams has staked out at the borders of neo-romanticism.
Sequenza21/ 2010
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Still, in many ways I prefer the orchestra on its own, so that its character can come through more strongly: the group delivers some serious rhythmic thunder, with driving ostinatos setting the stage for postminimalist horn riffing, cross-cutting grooves, and generous improvisations.
Chicago Reader Barbara Yaross 2010
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As a result, today's postminimalist composers have largely been trained by faculties who were more interested in other things.
Sequenza21/ 2010
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As I said, I don't get the same recordings that Kyle gets, but let's take him at his word and stipulate that an awful lot of the postminimalist composers out there-especially the more successful ones-are writing warmed-over John Adams.
Sequenza21/ 2010
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