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  • noun One who works in the style of postminimalism.

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post- +‎ minimalist

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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."

    LA Weekly | Complete Issue 2009

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Tenured composition faculty, even when they are receptive to postminimalist students, are unlikely to have much depth in minimalism and postminimalism.

    Sequenza21/ 2010

  • For one thing, the distribution infrastructure for minimalist and postminimalist music is very weak compared to that for other styles.

    Sequenza21/ 2010

  • A postminimalist is better off staying in the respectable territory that John Adams has staked out at the borders of neo-romanticism.

    Sequenza21/ 2010

  • 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

  • As a result, today's postminimalist composers have largely been trained by faculties who were more interested in other things.

    Sequenza21/ 2010

  • 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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