Melia Watras, born in 1969, is an American violist and composer who works totally on the fringes of the classical world. She is a member of the string trio Frequency, in which she plays with violinist Michael Jinsoo Lim and cellist Sæunn Thorsteindóttir, and a Professor of Viola on the University of Washington. None of that is to say that Medtner’s music was as fashionable as that of Stravinsky or Prokofiev, and it wasn’t, however that was a problem, too. Audiences and critics of the Nineteen Twenties, ‘30s and ‘40s saved ready for Medtner to develop a extra trendy fashion so as to be consistent with those composers, but he never did. He all the time stayed inside himself, thus his music wasn’t conventionally melodic sufficient to be popular or trendy sufficient to be accepted as “contemporary,” but his music was actually nice, musically ingenious and emotionally affecting.
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