I've really been enjoying these works by Hanson the last few days...definitely a composer worthy of deeper investigation. I think he got an unfair appraisal in the postwar period, simply because he wasn't afraid to write tonal music...this is something he should be championed for imho
@SPscorevideos Yeah, but it seems alot of American composers in the 1950's had a complex about not being serial, and thus on the cutting edge of the avant garde, etc...look at Sessions and Copland, they both started getting close to atonal in that Era...but Hanson didn't have the complex, he had the gift of melody and that's always enough
I never said that no American composer followed a different path, I'm just saying that the academia in the US (and also UK) isn't as strict as in Europe. :)
![Howard Hanson - Symphony No. 7 "A Sea Symphony" [with score]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/3okuxhiTL_k/mqdefault.jpg)
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Beautiful
Seattle Symphony, conducted by Gerard Schwarz.
Nice music tho! Howard Hanson is my favorite composer.
I've really been enjoying these works by Hanson the last few days...definitely a composer worthy of deeper investigation. I think he got an unfair appraisal in the postwar period, simply because he wasn't afraid to write tonal music...this is something he should be championed for imho
He was American, there weren't (and still there isn't) any prejudice against tonality.
@SPscorevideos Yeah, but it seems alot of American composers in the 1950's had a complex about not being serial, and thus on the cutting edge of the avant garde, etc...look at Sessions and Copland, they both started getting close to atonal in that Era...but Hanson didn't have the complex, he had the gift of melody and that's always enough
I never said that no American composer followed a different path, I'm just saying that the academia in the US (and also UK) isn't as strict as in Europe. :)