Posted on 01/15/2025 2:04:35 PM PST by nickcarraway
Schoenberg. No loss at all.
Let me respectfully disagree. The “Transfigured Night” sextet, written in his earlier romantic style, is a beautiful piece.
First Hunter’s paintings, now this. Civilization is crumbling before our eyes.
The score for ‘Concerto for Untuned Piano and Bowling Ball’ is lost? Oh, woe! Like the Library of Alexandria!
Verklaerte Nacht
I am with you, this is tragic for the family and a niche group but hardly a world cultural loss.
I have no sympathy for any material loss from these fires. Loss of life absolutely terrible, everything else nothing. Long overdue consequences for the CA population’s ideology as a whole.
Correct. I’m not sure how to put an umlaut over an “a” on a website, so I translated it.
Well said.
I would like to know what the son’s home in the Pacific Palisades cost or was worth. There was no place better to store such a valuable legacy???
Yes, with annual Santa Anna winds, periodic wild fires, periodic torrential rains washing away unstable Pacific Palisades hillsides, the area came with known periodic hazards. People ignored them, dwelling on the many beauties of the locations.
A lot of historical art has been lost in the fires. Old musical scores, photos, movie reels, paintings, etc. (Hunter Biden’s “paintings do not qualify as art).
Agreed.
Palisades was a beautiful place though, almost a movie set type perfect.
Let me respectfully disagree. The “Transfigured Night” sextet, written in his earlier romantic style, is a beautiful piece.
I just listened to a sample, I can hear the influence on early ELO.
Atonal is somewhat of an acquired taste.
Respect it? Sure.
Admire it’s groundbreaking? Sure.
Have a glass of wine and mellow out? Nope.
Maybe a Speedball and a flask of Dirty Mezcal?
Rock on Bruh!
Personal items often have value on the collectors’ market, but what is the importance of these scores? I assume the music is all written down and copies are available. The story notes that the scores that burned were not originals. They would seem to be easily replaceable.
gee, it is a shame that no one ever thought to record the music, copy the sheet music, publish it, etc.
People figured the real fire threat was up in the hills, like Brentwood, Encino, Bel Air, Tarzana, etc.
Malibu and PP have hilly areas farther inland. But unexpectedly, it was coastal Malibu and Pacific Palisades that were hardest hit; the areas nearer the beach than to the hills.
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