Posted on 11/30/2010 1:33:53 PM PST by mojito
A full century after Arnold Schoenberg and his students Alban Berg and Anton Webern unleashed their harsh chords on the world, modern classical music remains an unattractive proposition for many concertgoers. Last season at the New York Philharmonic, several dozen people walked out of a performance of Berg's Three Pieces for Orchestra; about the same number exited Carnegie Hall before the Vienna Philharmonic struck up Schoenberg's Variations for Orchestra.
The mildest 20th-century fare can cause audible gnashing of teeth. Benjamin Britten's Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings is a more or less fully tonal score, yet in 2009 at Lincoln Centre, it failed to please a gentleman sitting behind me. When someone let out a "Bravo!" elsewhere in the hall, he growled: "I bet that was a plant." I resisted the temptation to swat him with my pocket score.
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Thank you. Exactly. What a conceit, to write something and call it "classical". Its a classic when generations have past and it is still beautiful and its still means something to people.
>>Modern classical music is an oxymoron. Classical music has withstood the test of time. The avant-garde crap being peddled today as modern music wont last past next leap year.<<
I wonder, was there not music written contemporaneous with the “classics we love” that was “bad” and hence, long forgotten?
Of course there was. The overwhelming majority in fact.
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Philip Glass? Who's that?
“I didnt even know people still composed classical music today.”
Billy Joel composed a collection of classical piano music. The CD is named “Fantasies & Delusions”. I have heard a few pieces - quite good.
/johnny
To quote Slappy Squirrel, “Monotonous, yet repetitive”.
I have mixed feelings about Glass. I originally hated the stuff but learned to like it in moderation, as long as it was a background to something else.
Maybe if I started taking some drugs I’d appreciate it more.
The article only makes sense if you stick an icepick through your head before reading it.
Most film scores ar classical music. Many of them are very good and quite popular. This fact eviscerates the thrust of the article.
I actually dumped it all off Limewire (I still own the vinyl, so back off, RIAA) and thoroughly enjoyed it all over again.
>>The article only makes sense if you stick an icepick through your head before reading it.<<
I can’t believe I fell for that. No, it did not help at all!
Classical Music Ping
Frank Zappa, if you don’t have anything else on the turn table...
/johnny
Stravinsky: Le Sacre du printemps, the Firebird, etc.
Modern? Cacophonous? Quite.
Classical? Of course.
He’s as popular now as he’s ever been. Tristan might be the best opera of the 19th century. The Ring and Tristan get put on all the time. Even his earlier operas.
Because it’s usually an expression of the composer’s narcissism, it’s yawningly predictable, and it’s unpleasant to listen to.
Because much of it is neither "classical" nor music.
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