I thought you were a bit unfair to "Knoxville: Summer of 1915," denouncing it as somehow inauthentic because Samuel Barber actually grew up in Pennsylvania. But the work is a setting of a text by James Agee, who really DID grow up in Knoxville.
The recent compositions you have mentioned, A Hand of Bridge and Jerome Moross' Frankie and Johnny, would serve well for a dysfunctional family concert with Trouble in Tahiti as the second half finisher.
Funny to hear your comments about programming Medea for figure skaters- Medea has proved hugely popular as a selection for competitive drum corps and high school marching bands, following its use in the then-controversial, now-landmark Star of Indiana drum corps' 1993 program. At the time, the use of Medea's Meditation and Dance of Vengeance on the field was unprecedented and avant-garde, but the program was passionate and performed with undeniable intensity and nuance. For a lot of us bandos out there, drum corps was our introduction to so much fantastic classical music!
When you mentioned one thing on disc you really didn't like I knew it'd be Knoxville, remembering your choosing it for Barber's one chararistic work despite your strong distaste for it
OK, that single quote you just read on their own CD packaging makes me unlikely to EVER buy a single one of their recordings. Hard pass on my end. I despise pretense in music (pretension? Pretenciousness? Pretencisosity?)
The statement is rather pretentious, but more to the point as Dave says, what else are you going to call classical music? No one’s come up with a replacement name as far as I’m aware. I get that there’s always been some confusion considering there is a Classical era in classical music, where the name came from originally, and there are also classicists and neo-classicists within classical music. So, the knot gets tangled quickly, but we have to have some kind of a name for this stuff.
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"The music formally known as Classical" is the nickname for today's Deutsche Gramophone.
LOL!
I thought you were a bit unfair to "Knoxville: Summer of 1915," denouncing it as somehow inauthentic because Samuel Barber actually grew up in Pennsylvania. But the work is a setting of a text by James Agee, who really DID grow up in Knoxville.
Please acquire a sense of humor. It will do you good.
The recent compositions you have mentioned, A Hand of Bridge and Jerome Moross' Frankie and Johnny, would serve well for a dysfunctional family concert with Trouble in Tahiti as the second half finisher.
You're so right!
Funny to hear your comments about programming Medea for figure skaters- Medea has proved hugely popular as a selection for competitive drum corps and high school marching bands, following its use in the then-controversial, now-landmark Star of Indiana drum corps' 1993 program. At the time, the use of Medea's Meditation and Dance of Vengeance on the field was unprecedented and avant-garde, but the program was passionate and performed with undeniable intensity and nuance. For a lot of us bandos out there, drum corps was our introduction to so much fantastic classical music!
Indeed it was!
When you mentioned one thing on disc you really didn't like I knew it'd be Knoxville, remembering your choosing it for Barber's one chararistic work despite your strong distaste for it
WAYLTL just listening to early Shostakovich film music "The Golden Mountains" suite, a mile away from Barber's Medea...
Please do a whole video in your Russian choreographer voice!
"Medea's Rhumba Of Vengeance". Hee!
OK, that single quote you just read on their own CD packaging makes me unlikely to EVER buy a single one of their recordings. Hard pass on my end. I despise pretense in music (pretension? Pretenciousness? Pretencisosity?)
The statement is rather pretentious, but more to the point as Dave says, what else are you going to call classical music? No one’s come up with a replacement name as far as I’m aware. I get that there’s always been some confusion considering there is a Classical era in classical music, where the name came from originally, and there are also classicists and neo-classicists within classical music. So, the knot gets tangled quickly, but we have to have some kind of a name for this stuff.
You're then missing out on a lot of interesting music. BMOP tackles wonderful little-known scores in fine performances and sound.
@@steveschwartz8944 Whatever. I have plenty to satisfy my ears.
So, why are you listening to Dave?
@@bloodgrss What a stupid thing to ask.
It's a tribute to Barber's versatility that he's so convincing in both the rose-colored "Knoxville" and the crass interactions of the bridge game.