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To my shame, I must confess that I am not that fond of opera in general. But I will have a quick listen to the recording.
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Not trying to be arrogant here, but who listens to this?
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I prefer that it doesn't matter.
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Same here but I have no shame about it.
There are exceptions to everything, of course. I like Birtwistle's early operas Punch and Judy and Yan Tan Tethera. The latter was made for TV and simultast (TV and FM stereo) by the BBC. I made a cassette recording of the audio. There's a low quality home-video (looks like) of what looks like the same broadcast on Ootoob. I remember it got terrible reviews. Perhaps that added to my pleasure.
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After a quick skim of the video, I can't find anything inspiring or entertaining about it. OMG, there's a lot of weird stuff out there.
I liked your previous tip better.
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I wasn't asking you to like it. I was relating some personal history. I thought you liked those kinds of stories.After a quick skim of the video, I can't find anything inspiring or entertaining about it. OMG, there's a lot of weird stuff out there.
I liked your previous tip better.
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Yes, this is true. Anyway, you seem to have an interesting background of musical knowledge (and taste and humour?).
There's always something to talk about.
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Regarding weird stuff: you might like to checkout the Scratch Orchestra. (I was peripherally involved, back in the day. That had a permanent influence on my writing!).After a quick skim of the video, I can't find anything inspiring or entertaining about it. OMG, there's a lot of weird stuff out there.
I liked your previous tip better.
Oh - and replying to my own post to add, the Scratch Orchestra led to an interest in Serialism and thus to Minimalism. I still enjoy and have been much influenced by Terry Riley, Steve Reich (if you don't know Different Trains: well, try it for contained musical horror) and even Philip Glass (et seq).
Different Trains (Reich)
Rainbows in Curved Air (Riley)
Koyaanisqatsi: Life out of balance (Glass)
These constitute a very different and perhaps more accessible modernism compered with Ligeti or Penderecki:
Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima
In the end all the gear is about the music we can listen to, no?
My Spotify playlist does include rather a lot of genres
Including popular ones!
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Thanks, interesting. Are you a composer or writer?
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Thanks again for the tips. Most of the composers have already been mentioned in this thread (it's too long now and it's hard to read the whole thing).Oh - and replying to my own post to add, the Scratch Orchestra led to an interest in Serialism and thus to Minimalism. I still enjoy and have been much influenced by Terry Riley, Steve Reich (if you don't know Different Trains: well, try it for contained musical horror) and even Philip Glass (et seq).
Different Trains (Reich)
Rainbows in Curved Air (Riley)
Koyaanisqatsi: Life out of balance (Glass)
These constitute a very different and perhaps more accessible modernism compered with Ligeti or Penderecki:
Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima
In the end all the gear is about the music we can listen to, no?
My Spotify playlist does include rather a lot of genres
I have heard Penderecki, Reich, Glass etc. live several times and also posted a few photos of concerts I attended. I don't find them weird but good. Glass is mostly too monotonous for me, but unfortunately he has a great influence on other composers who emulate him, so that sometimes you can't tell them apart at all.
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Wow! Scratch Orchestra and Cornelius Cardew both fascinate me. It seems to me very hard to get a handle on what was going on, what purposes were being served, what people got out of it all. There's a surprising amount of rancor in some of the writings I've read about and by people involved in 60s and 70s avant-garde and improvised music in the UK. That adds to the fog that I find so impenetrable. I got a copy of Stockhausen Serves Imperialism but found it boring and uninformative.
So it's very cool to find someone that was there. Thanks for mentioning it and linking the Pilgrimage From Scattered Points.
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That I like. The trick of setting repeated fragments of spoken word to his music actually works (there are other more famous examples). I think the recordings of Reich's music with his own ensemble are the best. Not surprising when you think about that.
Classic.
As a movie soundtrack I think this is very successful. I think this is what Glass has been best at. I still find the closing scene with the rocket explosion very moving.
In a recent podcast we looked at 5 movies to which Miles Davis contributed music. Music that works well for film isn't necessarily good listening music, nor visa versa.
There's a wonderful story about how that work sounds so much like Xenakis Metastaseis. A number of eastern bloc composers have told stories about their clandestine radio listening.
For some of us, yes.
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Vivaldi, Haydn, Bach, the usual pieces first, played a bit rustic. Well, our expectations for yesterday's little concert in the local music school were not very high anyway. It's all very provincial and we wouldn't expect first class musicians. There were three musicians from the East who had gone through hard 'Soviet' music education, when they were young, as they told. Whatever that means.
Kristina Kato - violin Vilnius - Dresden (She is Professor for Violin at the University of Music Dresden)
Eugen Mantu - violoncello Bucharest - Erfurt (He is solo Cellist at the Erfurt Philharmonics)
Georgeta M. Nita - piano Bucharest - Ludwigshafen
But still I learn something, so it is a gain. E.g. I didn't know the beautiful sonata for violin and cello by Ravel and I wasn't aware that he was among the modern neoclassical composers.
I found another piece by the Austro-Czech composer and pianist Erwin Schulhoff even more exciting and also his biography, not the least of which is that he was a Dadaist and avant-gardist of the 'Neue Musik'. Very intersting! See my YouTube links below.
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Kristina Kato - violin Vilnius - Dresden (She is Professor for Violin at the University of Music Dresden)
Eugen Mantu - violoncello Bucharest - Erfurt (He is solo Cellist at the Erfurt Philharmonics)
Georgeta M. Nita - piano Bucharest - Ludwigshafen
But still I learn something, so it is a gain. E.g. I didn't know the beautiful sonata for violin and cello by Ravel and I wasn't aware that he was among the modern neoclassical composers.
I found another piece by the Austro-Czech composer and pianist Erwin Schulhoff even more exciting and also his biography, not the least of which is that he was a Dadaist and avant-gardist of the 'Neue Musik'. Very intersting! See my YouTube links below.
Erwin Schulhoff - Wikipedia
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I hope you can see my YouTube links abroad, ie that they are not subject to geoblocking?
In the past; I even got commissioned, and shock! even paid for it on occasion. Then in my forties I had to go make a proper living
I haven't ever stopped composing, but it's only recently after retiring that I have got back to recording what I composed. I have nothing to link to at the moment, but I am preparing some stuff... hope to finish off a lot of unfinished projects before I die.
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The Corona pandemic had caused a severe slump in cultural life. I'm glad it's picking up again and we can do more again. This weekend we experienced a lot of music and art again and our calendar continues to fill up with concert and theatre visits or vernissages in the near future.
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Do you have any scores you could share a fragment of?In the past; I even got commissioned, and shock! even paid for it on occasion. Then in my forties I had to go make a proper living
I liked this release, if you haven't heard it:
Cornelius Cardew & The Scratch Orchestra - The Great Learning
View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 2000 CD release of "The Great Learning" on Discogs.
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ThanksI liked this release, if you haven't heard it:
Cornelius Cardew & The Scratch Orchestra - The Great Learning
View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 2000 CD release of "The Great Learning" on Discogs.
I like the instrumental part a bit, until the vocals kick in, then I drop out. Not my thing. Sorry.
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