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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
... 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
... 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...
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...
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...
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....
under the hyperbolic- paraboloids of Xenakis's building, themselves based on his own music composition, Metastasis. Just got Kraanerg - it's my first Xenakis...
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...
Argh! There I go, carelessly mixing the spelling of 'presumptious' with that of "sumptuous". I was probably anticipating dinner. ... Stravinsky wrote...
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...
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...
... 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...
Having problems with message search?
Fill out this form to ensure your group is one of the first to be migrated to the new message search system.
