This is an interesting thought experiment, but it would seem to reveal more about the limitations of the selected sources than their efficacy as litmus tests for greatness. It suffers from album-oriented bias.
What about composers? John Williams, Philip Glass, Thomas Newman...Sakamoto...Duke Ellington...
Or conductors? von Karajan...Bernstein...Tilson-Thomas...Ozawa...
This is an interesting thought experiment, but it would seem to reveal more about the limitations of the selected sources than their efficacy as litmus tests for greatness. It suffers from album-oriented bias.
What about composers? John Williams, Philip Glass, Thomas Newman...Sakamoto...Duke Ellington...
Or conductors? von Karajan...Bernstein...Tilson-Thomas...Ozawa...
Interestingly the Library of Congress and Grammy Hall of Fame lists have composers and conductors. I just ended up excluding those two groups because the underlying mechanics of how careers work in those fields seem different. Ellington is on the list though. According to the info I pulled, he put out classics 39 years apart.
This is an interesting thought experiment, but it would seem to reveal more about the limitations of the selected sources than their efficacy as litmus tests for greatness. It suffers from album-oriented bias.
What about composers? John Williams, Philip Glass, Thomas Newman...Sakamoto...Duke Ellington...
Or conductors? von Karajan...Bernstein...Tilson-Thomas...Ozawa...
Interestingly the Library of Congress and Grammy Hall of Fame lists have composers and conductors. I just ended up excluding those two groups because the underlying mechanics of how careers work in those fields seem different. Ellington is on the list though. According to the info I pulled, he put out classics 39 years apart.