Chris Coletti Live from Tanglewood 2008: Elliot Carter - "Call"

[muslit]

i often like carter's music, but i also realize his music will never appeal to a lot of people. this is quite accessible for carter.

[jhg12989]

Listen to the counterpoint and the different intervals formed by the brass. Listen to the way the three players interact with one another.

[lmaxim]

@jhg12989

What interaction are you talking about?

Counterpoint??? Maybe I'm too old-fashion, but what about harmony?

[jhg12989]

What music do you normally listen to? -jhg12989

[lmaxim]

OMG!!! Does anyone call this music? This random set of sounds creates no more then a simple noise.

[nvbaileys]

@lmaxim doesn't sound too random to me.

[1udwi6]

BRAVO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[reviewer221]

The comparison of this music to Stravinsky is absurd. Stravinsky was a true genius, and yes, many of his pieces were not received well when they first premiered, however they are in fact masterpieces. This piece and others like it are not.

We must also remember that Stravinsky's 'RIte of Spring' audience and today's audience are drastically different, and even though a modern audience is much more open minded, this type of music has not found any mass appeal.

[BellaSong1]

a modern audience is no more or less open-minded than audiences of the past have been. while quality can not be truly measured, one's opinion upon first hearing has very little to do with what will be considered a classic in 100 years from now. i personally am not sure if i like the music or not, but as for what will be liked in the future, only time will tell.

[reviewer221]

audiences in previous time went to things like opera's and ballets because they knew exactly what they were going to get. Its like saying "i want to watch an action movie" and going to the store a picking one out. So when The Rite of Spring comes out, people are shocked because it is not what they expected and not what a ballet *should* be.

It has been almost 100 years since Webern and Schoenberg started with serial and atonal music.... and has it ever been widely accepted at all? No.

[scoggles]

What a treat for Carter to be able to hear young people still playing his music. What was he, 99 here?

[muslit]

Harmony isn't very memorable.

[Quadrupelfuge]

gute Komposition! Und gut gemeistert.

[PolyphonicSeduction]

I don't see any sense in "Music" like this.

[kombelpeter]

I do. :D

[tim23z]

Agreed.

[levity76]

There are plenty of brass players who should perform behind a screen or with the lights off...especially the girls.

(I'm a trumpet player, and I'm totally kidding.)

[clairannette]

Heeeeey.... Look at Elliot there clapping in the back! WOW!!! I can't believe he is 100 years old TODAY!!!

[CherryBlossomGirl231]

it's some thing to keep time. it's really common. At least for me, who grew up with seeing Michael do that, it is. ^_^

(Michael is the one on the French horn. He was one of the two tapping... I think...) ^_^

[84Zacknafein84]

Can't understand why people plays horrible pieces like this...with all the REALLY GOOD music for brass.

Bah...

[TheBlackPage1]

It might be down to the fact that most people (especially performers)are sick to death of endlessly repeating the whole experience of music that's been heard 50 million times before. I can't understand people who deny variation in the arts.

[iambananananananana]

variation is good, but in this case, it's more like a degradation of music.

[TheBlackPage1]

It's a shame people vilify music they don't have the ability to understand. =)

[iambananananananana]

what good is this kind of "music" if only a handful of people claim to "understand" it?

[TheBlackPage1]

Well, what good are scientists if only a handful of people can truly understand what they do? However, one doesn't need to "understand" to "like". My understanding of Carter's music is limited to what's on the paper. Stravinsky even said "I have never understood a note of music in my life, but I've felt it".. Have you seen the letter he wrote Carter upon hearing his Double Concerto? But to answer your question; it makes us feel special.

xD

[levity76]

There are those who felt the same way about Rite of Spring. In the end, history and time will judge the merits of this stuff. And sometimes better music/art/science is born out of the experimental stuff. So chill, bee-otch!

:)