Well, I agree with everyone's choice of 5 pieces. I like a lot of CEI's music, so I am dissatisfied with singling out just 5. And the single movement...
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Frankie Camiola
jeffreyhammo...
Dec 5, 2003 1:51 am
C'mon Quart, it's just a stupid game to spark some conversation and thoughts. If you *HAD* to pick just five (5) (if somebody was holding an out-of-tune oboe...
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quartodeciman
Dec 5, 2003 5:56 pm
Well, Frankie, I think your list works just fine and Scott's does too. I haven't heard Psalm 90 for many years, but I remember liking it a lot. So, your list...
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Frankie Camiola
jeffreyhammo...
Dec 6, 2003 7:40 pm
Being held at risk by an oboe, I just spit out the first 5 titles I can think of. Quart, where are they?!!! Frankie [Non-text portions of this message have...
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quartodeciman
Dec 6, 2003 8:27 pm
... Frankie, it hasn't happened yet. quart...
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quartodeciman
Dec 6, 2003 8:41 pm
Oh, well: 1. Symphony #4 movement 2 Comedy Allegretto 2. String Quartet #2 movement 3 The Call of the Mountains Adagio 3. General William Booth Enters into...
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Frankie Camiola
jeffreyhammo...
Dec 6, 2003 8:44 pm
Has anybody ever heard Ives 4 performed by the Ensemble Modern with John Adams conducting? I may order this directly from the EM website...
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Anne Ozorio
mskahuna2002
Dec 6, 2003 8:55 pm
I've no idea about eitherv their Ives or their Zappa but Ensemble Modern are one of the best contemporary music ensembles around and nearly everything they do...
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Frankie Camiola
jeffreyhammo...
Dec 6, 2003 9:13 pm
Anne If you haven't ever heard Zappa's "The Yellow Shark", you should try to pick it up sometime. FZ was always frustrated with orchestras performing his...
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Anne Ozorio
mskahuna2002
Dec 6, 2003 9:31 pm
Sorry, I don't "do" favourites. I don't know why but I always get stumped when asked. Anne anne.ozorio@......
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Bob Zeidler
bobzeidler
Dec 6, 2003 9:48 pm
Hi, Daniel! And welcome! Is "NY bassoonist Johnny Reinhard" the same Johnny Reinhard who prepared a realization of the Universe Symphony? I'm guessing that he...
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Bob Zeidler
bobzeidler
Dec 6, 2003 10:07 pm
... I don't, either. Once, on another music board, a few of us -- myself included -- did one of those "desert island disc" things. Truly an exercise in...
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Frankie Camiola
jeffreyhammo...
Dec 7, 2003 12:05 am
Here is John Adams discussing Ives 4 with the Ensemble Modern.... The "Fourth Symphony" of Charles Ives is a problemmatic work. What do you bring to this work...
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Bob Zeidler
bobzeidler
Dec 9, 2003 3:59 pm
Frankie- One can never have too many Ives 4ths. Simply "the great American symphony." And Adams is a respectable conductor of Ives's music. But, now that I've...
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Scott Mortensen
scottkmort
Dec 9, 2003 11:02 pm
Frankie, I've never heard Ensemble Modern's recording of the Fourth either. But I've heard from several Ives fans--whose opinion I trust--that it is...
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Frankie Camiola
jeffreyhammo...
Dec 10, 2003 12:10 am
... From: Scott Mortensen To: charlesives@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2003 6:02 PM Subject: RE: [charlesives] Re: Ensemble Modern Frankie, I've...
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mskahuna2002
Dec 12, 2003 11:30 pm
Sometime ago, Scott and Bob reviewed the Faberman, Cleobury and Armstrong versions of Celestial Country. It was wonderful, the ideal way to get into a new...
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Frankie Camiola
jeffreyhammo...
Dec 13, 2003 12:06 am
Anybody into Varese here? I have been listening to Varese all week and really "hearing" most of this music for the first time. In a word - outrageous. I own...
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Anne Ozorio
mskahuna2002
Dec 13, 2003 9:53 am
Here's what I wrote, inspired by Scott, Bob, Michael and the folks here. Thank you, sincerely ! ... From: Anne Ozorio <anne.ozorio@...> ...
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quartodeciman
Dec 13, 2003 8:45 pm
... I met the music of Varèse before I met the music of Ives. I was knocked out by Intègrales and Ionization. That would have been about the time of the...
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quartodeciman
Dec 13, 2003 9:43 pm
a bit more on Varèse: Sorry! That audio file isn't the complete Poeme Electronique. The rest of the work includes voices. Louise Varèse,Varèse: A...
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Scott Mortensen
scottkmort
Dec 14, 2003 6:49 am
Anne, The cycle was assembled by Armstrong, not Ives. His choices are interesting. Quite a mixture of more traditional--and not-traditional-at-all works. I...
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Scott Mortensen
scottkmort
Dec 14, 2003 7:02 am
My interest in Ives has a Varese connection. When I was an undergrad, I took a music appreciation course that included a big set of cassette tapes of various...
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Anne Ozorio
mskahuna2002
Dec 14, 2003 2:27 pm
Hello Scott, The more I listen to this compilation, the more I'm impressed. It takes a good knowledge of the ranfe of Ives's work to select so intelligently....
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Frankie Camiola
jeffreyhammo...
Dec 14, 2003 3:55 pm
under the hyperbolic- paraboloids of Xenakis's building, themselves based on his own music composition, Metastasis. Just got Kraanerg - it's my first Xenakis...
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quartodeciman
Dec 14, 2003 11:11 pm
I said "...Xenakis's building". That was a bit presumptuous of me. I read that there was some unpleasantness later over the credit due for the Phillips...
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quartodeciman
Dec 15, 2003 5:55 pm
Argh! There I go, carelessly mixing the spelling of 'presumptious' with that of "sumptuous". I was probably anticipating dinner. ... Stravinsky wrote...
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Frankie Camiola
jeffreyhammo...
Dec 15, 2003 11:34 pm
So Stravinsky liked Varese, but not Xenakis? I know Stravinsky also stated that Decoration Day was a masterpiece, but did Ives like Varese or Stravinsky? Did...
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quartodeciman@...
quartodeciman
Dec 16, 2003 8:17 pm
Let me try and sort this out, for my own satisfaction if nothing else. I always take Stravinsky's crustiness as a dose of humor. Stravinsky was a very...
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RRZeidler@...
bobzeidler
Dec 17, 2003 1:53 pm
... Oh, absolutely, Anne (and Scott)! I've gotten to know Richard Bernas, at least in a cyber-sense. Richard posts occasionally on the message board I frequent...
