Dvorak, Berg, Copland
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love this concert...
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It is the best music I have heard
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@BritinIsrael Look at it this way. Do you only watch one genre of film?
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It doesnt have to sound like Beethoven or Mahler, for example. There are many modern 12 note compositions that i admire and can honestly say that even John Cage's "prepared piano " works are to me more palatable than the Berg Violin Concerto. But that is my personal opinion.
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Maybe " non music" was the wrong description, and i apologise if i upset or offended anyone. Maybe i should have said "unmusical"! I use this word because i find the Berg Violin Concerto totally devoid of any musical value orsubstance. I am convinced that if one of my grandchildren suddenly found a violin and bow laying on the floor and tried to make some sounds out of them , the result would not be any different, and maybe even more acceptable to the ear.
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@mahlerman101 hence the beauty of creativity that makes our very humanity so unique. Great art demands a unique voice for it to be marveled at and remembered. Unfortunately for your tastes, composers have been trying to desperately free themselves of the shackles of their influence (take a look at Brahm's anxiety over Beethoven's legacy) such that, yes, radically new styles evolve, styles that inherently still apart of musical idiom, i.e., gestures.
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@BritinIsrael It always bothers me when people claim that something is "non-music." What is music, in the general sense? A collection of gestures manifested in sound that recreate our moods and feelings. People who listen and study Mozart all the time (I love Mozart) seem to forget that Berg and Stravinsky manipulate the same gestures. Berg is all about gesture, the Brahms of the 21st century. As for harmony, there has been a logical progression from Palestrina on - hence the beaty of creativity
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Honestly i have tried and tried and tried........... but i just cannot call the Berg violin concerto "enjoyable" in any sense of the word. This rates, alongside most of Stravinsky's output, as total NON MUSIC!!!
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excellent work!
I enjoyed this concert very much, thank you for posting!
infintomx 3 years ago 7
Yay! The Berg concerto and Appalachian Spring on the same program...they're like the two sides of my soul.
wesleyan97 3 years ago 6