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I grew up listening to his recordings of Prokofiev, which were just then being released on the Melodiya/Angel label. The very first recording I heard had the Prokofiev 1st Violin Concerto and on the other side of it was this really blistering performance of Hindemith's Kammermusik no. 4 with Igor Oi...

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I'll have to say, though, that I don't find a lot to recommend in the examples I've heard of Ludovico Einaudi.

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John F . I'm not quite sure what your message has to do with what I wrote, whether that was supposed to be a rebuttal or what. Certainly classical music will only survive if people keep writing it. And if they choose to write it incorporating stylistic elements of popular music, that will be fine a...

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Classical composition involves an approach to structure and continuity which popular styles of music generally lack. Classical composition is not defined by style but rather by an approach to structure. Therefore, provided that approach to structure is present, there is no reason not to incorporate ...

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I recently performed Stanford's Serenade in F major, op. 95. This is a nonet for flute, clarinet, horn, bassoon, 2 violins, viola, cello and bass. It was written in 1905, and is in the usual four movements. The texture is very full, especially in the first movement, so that part of the challenge of ...

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It is quite clear she was summarizing in her own words what the singer was telling her.

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So the quoted statement is that of the singer, Yvonne Kenny, not of the psychologist Lichter. The title of this thread, then, is misleading. "A psychiatrist's point of view - contemporary music", leading the reader to the assumption that a psychiatrist, after some well researched study, had conclude...

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Lance, now I'm curious. Could you please put the quote in some kind of context? Could you at least post the paragraph from which it came? You could snap a picture of the page from which it came and post it here so we can read what comes before and after.

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Lance, why on earth are you posting this? Out of this lengthy book, why did you choose to pull this one sentence completely out of context? Of what significance is it that this author who is interviewing performing musicians about their experiences of performing inserts this one sentence about conte...

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Rameau's operas flow nicely between recitative and melodic numbers. I remember Hippolyte especially for this trio, with the remarkable chromatic progression on the words "Tremble, frémis d'effroi". (at around the 2:05 mark in this video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZdrNY_TA78

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1) Production is an art form. 2) Then there's the mysterious ability to make a beat that's memorable -- i.e. the hook. 3) Kendrick is an innovator. 4) In To Pimp a Butterfly Kendrick's innovations are much more present, and, I believe, more recognizable. Hope that helps, -G Garrett, that helps very...

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I think one of the roots of the problem is that people just can't grasp the immense amount of skill, talent, and dedication required to produce a successful hip hop track. "Oh, c'mon, that sounds so easy to do!" Well, consider that Kendrick is simply so talented that he...*wait for it*...makes it l...

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Sometimes when forced to lighten up, here because of the instrumentation, his music becomes a bit more digestible.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c17OJxqf0GE

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Reger's music is impossibly dense. If only he could have written a little bit less, his music would sound better. If you could somehow strip half the notes out of any one of his compositions, that might provide some relief to one's weary ears. Reger wrote 3 sonatas for clarinet and piano. They sound...

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My buddy said it well elsewhere: New Music People: This modernist piece sounds like noise to you because you need to educate yourself in the specific vocabulary of this type of music. Also New Music People: I don't really listen to hip hop, but I listened to Kendrick Lamar and I'm not hearing anyth...

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BWV 18 Gleichwie der Regen und Schnee also expresses similar sentiments. It entreats God "From the cruel murders and blasphemies of the Turks and the Pope, protect us like a father".

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Good work, Garrett! Very enjoyable.

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But what about the newer music which eschews those forms we recognize and understand? How is our appreciation and understanding shaped in the 'absence' of these old forms? Are these replaced with newer forms and, if so, what are they? Or is it just familiarity with the works rather than formal expe...

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The Liszt Jeaux d'Eau and the Scriabin 5th Sonata are two of my favorite piano works, so there's the beginning of a good program right there. How'd he do on the Beethoven? That's a pianist killer.

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My wife and I braved the high winds (and I don't mean flutes. They sounded marvelous) in Washington DC last night (March 2) and went down to the Kennedy Center to hear Donald Runnicles conduct the Symphony no. 10 in F# major by Gustav Mahler . I have a few words to say about what I heard. The conduc...

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Sorry to hear of your loss, John.

Jean-Baptiste! With a name like that he should have specialized in Baroque music.

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Thanks, Mark. I enjoyed that very much. However, you may be surprised at what struck me first. It does not seem like "typical Mahler" except in large portions. The beginning sounds a great deal as though he had been more influenced by his friend Schoenberg than he might have wanted to admit. I don'...

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If you're not familiar with the 10th, John, you've got to get a load of this: Right around the 19:00 mark Mahler unleashes the most ear-splittlingly dissonant chord in symphonic music. Nine different pitches at one time, but it's the way it's orchestrated that really packs the big punch. For maximum...

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Recently I stumbled across a program of a major orchestra that has programmed "Mahler's Tenth." Unfortunately I cannot now find the link. You tell me, because to my shame I can't tell you. You could stumble across quite a number of programs by major orchestras doing the 10th, since it is being more...

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Hopefully your browser will take you to the proper Youtube link. I'm sure your mind will supply a totally different set of mental images.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGesimKbRUc

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I didn't know what to make of Fiji by Michael Torke when I first heard it. It took me several listenings before I began to like it, which engendered many more listenings over the course of which I really began to appreciate and love what's going on in this infectious music. It has become my favorite...

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They played mainly their own compositions. Kissin doesn't. Yuja Wang doesn't. Big difference. For that matter, neither did Rachmaninoff! He recorded and played lots of repertoire that was not his own music. This statement is relevant only if one can trivialize my point down to a matter of "earlier ...

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Trifanov's concerto is available to listen to on Youtube. At one listening I have to say I agree with Ricordanza's assessment of the work. This is the work of a pianist who's spent many hours practicing Rachmaninoff and Prokofiev concertos, and that's the sound he has in his head, and that's what hi...

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I just wish there was a piece, apart from a few by Arvo Part, that I could say "oh yes, I think that is something special". I think that about the keyboard works of Ligeti, but that's already 'old'!! It's a start.* And Ligeti was writing his Etudes for piano (Of his works, these are my favorites) u...

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Belle, you say I made an argument against "murmuring"? I don't know what you're talking about. And clearly you don't know what I'm talking about. Now I think you need to learn to count your decades. I said "three or four decades out of date". It's now 2018. Go back three decades and you have 1988, b...

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Edit
Sorry for making a total mess out of my attempt to extricate myself from my nested quotes.

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You don't really need to read this one again, either.

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Help, I've fallen into post-editing Hell, and I can't get up!

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I don't think my comment is 'several decades out of date'. That would take us back to WW2 and there were very many great composers of that era whom we all love to hear today. Indeed, though there were plenty at the time who said that modern music was all noise and not worth listening to. That is wh...

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And maestrob's point is well made; if modern music was better than it is more people would want to hear it in the composer's lifetime. Actually, his point was "how are we going to know if it's good if it's never played?". Yes, we have unprecedented mass media, concert venues absolutely Everywhere, ...

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I've been enjoying this lovely composition of Steve Reich from 2015, called Pulse.

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Carl St. Clair has been with them for 28 years! He must have gone there right after his time with the Cayuga Chamber Orchestra (Ithaca, New York based orchestra. St. Clair took that job in 1985 upon the retirement of the original conductor, Karel Husa).

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Starting around the time of Paradise Lost , Penderecki's thematic material tends to consist of chromatic scale fragments, a few notes in one direction and a few notes in the other. Here's a good example, one of my favorite Penderecki works, because it involves the clarinet. This performance of the C...

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One of the more curious aspects of Penderecki's compositional output was the non-existence of a 6th symphony. He wrote his Symphony no. 5, the Korean Symphony , in 1992. In 1996 An oratorio called The Seven Gates of Jerusalem appeared, which he subsequently decided should be called (for numerologica...

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I remember Eric Salzman for an electronic collage he created with Joshua Rifkin and had released on Nonesuch Records called The Nude Paper Sermon . It was most memorable for the spoken monologues embedded in it, especially one that begins "A politician speaks..." at about the 18.57 mark. iv4J3Vc2LiA

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As Ira Gershwin once wrote:

It's never too late to Mendelssohn
Two hearts are at journey's endelssohn.
Whate'er their future, they must share it.
I trust they Lohengrin and bear it.

(Lyric from Kurt Weill's Lady in the Dark)

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I've been listening to this excellent Quartet for 2 vibraphones and 2 pianos by Steve Reich. The group featured here, Ensemble Signal, performed a whole evening of recent Steve Reich compositions last month (Oct. 18) at the Coolidge Auditorium in the Library of Congress, but it was this quartet that...

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A number of clips from Brett Dean's Hamlet can be found on Youtube. Here is one of them. It seems to me that most of the musical interest is in the orchestra.

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The ISIS-inspired car attack in New York City was horrible. So is the more recent shooting in Sutherland Springs, Texas. And that was Christian-on-Christian crime. Seems like neither Islam nor Christianity has much claim on being a "religion of peace". These attacks happen with such regularity you h...

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I just want to post a link to a performance of this work for anyone who hasn't heard it. I hadn't heard it or heard of it until today. What's really striking about this piece is the way he will suddenly switch keys, bolt out of the blue, with no preparation or transition. He does this repeatedly. RL...

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John, this venue is on Georgia Ave., just immediately south of the Beltway, relatively close to the Forest Glen Metro station. I know these musicians from 2 of the orchestras I play in. They're hoping to find an occasion to perform the piece again. Takoma Park is a funky neighborhood. I like it; it ...

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Nevertheless, She Persisted has been performed again, this time in Silver Spring, Maryland, and I am able to present a video recording of it. The double bass (replaying a role given to it by Beethoven's 9th symphony) interrupts, rejects and "mansplains" the efforts of the cellos to express themselv...

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Seeing as he was Catholic, I can understand Elgar's reluctance to contribute to the English Hymnal.

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And it's a darn good thing there's no key of F flat major.
Otherwise Max Reger would have felt obliged to use it.

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Here we go again. I've had many differences with Mark over the years, but it is simply incorrect that there cannot be an extended discussion on pre-tonal music. I didn't say there couldn't be, just that there wouldn't be. I'd be happy for you to prove me wrong and talk about the music rather than p...

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