Hi all, it's me again. I would just like to thank everyone who helped me
gain a lot of understanding by expanding on my original conversation topic
of Philip Glass and IDM. I really appreciate it. I posed a question about
The Orb and Steve Reich to a classical mailing list, and apparently, those
folks are not very openminded at all!
quoted 10 lines I wish I could help you, but I don't know "The Orb," so I have no way of
>I wish I could help you, but I don't know "The Orb," so I have no way of
>knowing. I doubt very much that anything was pilfered, as all of Reich's
>stuff is in copyright, and, there would have been one hell of a lawsuit if
>anything had been. Additionally, so much material from early minimalism is so
>naturally "ambient" that it would be impossible to tell if the borrowing were
>intentional or mere coincidence. Of course, not having heard the excerpt in
>question, I could be wrong, but based on my experience with these things, I
>thing it's a pretty good bet that I'm not.
>
>Dave