Re: New Thread: "Classical" Music Influences on Us

[lance glover <baumhaus@earthlink.net>]

"Liebig, Steuart A." wrote:

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> yeah, yeah, all this classical stuff is way cool (i mean i liked elp's
> "pictures at an exhibition" and i thought that it showed keith emerson
> could really write some great classical music) . . .
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> but how many people here are into the crue?
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> ;-0 . . . ;-)
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> stig
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> (p.s. i know emerson didn't write it . . . s'a joke son!)
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: lance glover [mailto:baumhaus@earthlink.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2001 10:48 AM
> To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
> Subject: Re: New Thread: "Classical" Music Influences on Us
>
> more grist for the mill, as it were:
>
> charles ives    first sonata for piano & piano sonata no. 2 (1
> emerson, 2
> hawthorne, 3 the alcotts 4 thoreau) this stuff never fails to amaze.
> the alcotts
> especially- so beautiful/straightforward...
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> charles ives   calcium night light, three-page sonata for piano, songs
> for voice
> & piano
>
> george crumb   voices of children, black angels, music for a summer
> evening
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> messien   et exspecto resurrectionem mortuorum
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> penderecki   dies irae, de natura sonoris II, fluorescences, anklasis
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> schnittke   concerto grosso no. 1
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> carl nielsen   any of the symphonies, but in particular no. 5
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> xenakis   atre'es  st/4   nomos alpha    akrata  poola ta dhina
> st/10
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> berio   sequenza III
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> ligeti   atmospheres
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> conlon nancarrow   anything, but in part. studies 3a, 3b, 3c, 3d, 3e
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> varese   ionization (of course), density 21.5, integrales, deserts
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> thanks to everyone else on this thread, i've got lots of new (and old)
> things to
> look for...
>
> lance g.
>

what's funny about that is that i had a misunderstanding with the
high-school teacher who turned me on to ives (remember now this was back
in the early seventies- i'm an OG). i actually DID think he was talking
about keith emerson, not ralph waldo!!! this was soon clarified however,
much to my chagrin...

someone i fergot to mention in all this is harry partch. was (and is) a
real inspiration & influence...and thanks for whomever mentioned darius
milhaud (pron. mee-yo?)...

also, for the mention of cage's 4' 33" (silent piece), i think this was
tongue-in-cheek (do correct me if i'm wrong). i appreciate cage's
writing immensely, but concur with a number of folk who've posted in the
past about his compositional output being, shall we say, not uniformly
impressive. i do have a soft spot for the gamelan/satie/etc.-influenced
early prepared piano pieces; many of them are quite exquisite and imho
hold their own against a majority of 20th cent. musical innovations...

lance g.