Someone mentioned the music of EB Hill...the 3 Concerted works for Piano and Orchestra, and the 4th Symphony have been recorded by the Austin Texas Symphony and will be released this year.
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Composers & Music / Re: Sung composers that you just "don't get"
Thursday 18 April 2013, 03:37
I don't find any pleasure in the bulk of Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, Bach, and most of the standard repertoire. I still find great value in Brahms, CPE Bach, and much of the music written since 1900. For me, Mahler is moving at times, but undisciplined and self-indulgent...Bruckner, Reger and others of that ilk, a bore. Rachmaninoff is a "God" for me.
For me, there is a difference in what I like and what I respect. After several semesters of counterpoint, and playing quite a bit of his music, I have great respect for the music of JS Bach, yet I will almost never listen to it. I can admire the genius of Webern, but will never choose to listen to anything other than Im Sommerwind, the Quartet movement and the Passacaglia.
It seems to me that we don't have to like something to appreciate it. Nor, do I believe that I have to "like" everything I listen to. I think of many plays and novels that convey to me very disturbing ideas. Likewise, I can appreciate a painting that I find troubling. For me there is a great danger in thinking that we must "enjoy" things for them to have value. I am fond of this quote from Koussevitzky, "From the beginning of the twentieth century, music, once the privilege of the 'initiated' became accessible to wide layers of society, bring about a 'mass initiation' of listeners into the sphere of musical art. This spreading of music to the masses, at too rapid a pace, resulted in a profound misconception of music as a means of 'entertainment' and 'enjoyment' to be passively consumed by the listener. Music must be listened to creatively. Only active love can lead to the understanding of art and of its lasting value."
I am also reminded of Copland's book, on listening to music. Copland spoke of the various levels of listening and how we should strive to learn to listen to music on its own terms. I have come to the conclusion that it is a noble goal, which few will take the time to reach.
That said, I hope to God that I never have to hear anything written by Haydn the rest of my life!
Karl
For me, there is a difference in what I like and what I respect. After several semesters of counterpoint, and playing quite a bit of his music, I have great respect for the music of JS Bach, yet I will almost never listen to it. I can admire the genius of Webern, but will never choose to listen to anything other than Im Sommerwind, the Quartet movement and the Passacaglia.
It seems to me that we don't have to like something to appreciate it. Nor, do I believe that I have to "like" everything I listen to. I think of many plays and novels that convey to me very disturbing ideas. Likewise, I can appreciate a painting that I find troubling. For me there is a great danger in thinking that we must "enjoy" things for them to have value. I am fond of this quote from Koussevitzky, "From the beginning of the twentieth century, music, once the privilege of the 'initiated' became accessible to wide layers of society, bring about a 'mass initiation' of listeners into the sphere of musical art. This spreading of music to the masses, at too rapid a pace, resulted in a profound misconception of music as a means of 'entertainment' and 'enjoyment' to be passively consumed by the listener. Music must be listened to creatively. Only active love can lead to the understanding of art and of its lasting value."
I am also reminded of Copland's book, on listening to music. Copland spoke of the various levels of listening and how we should strive to learn to listen to music on its own terms. I have come to the conclusion that it is a noble goal, which few will take the time to reach.
That said, I hope to God that I never have to hear anything written by Haydn the rest of my life!
Karl
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