Extremely annoying pieces of classical music

[teamsaint]

I struggle with Glass, but I’m quite keen on Reich. Your point about earlier works is a good one. Why did it go so wrong say, with Glass, later on?

Thats what we need, a minimalism thread.

[MrGongGong]

I struggle with Glass, but I’m quite keen on Reich. Your point about earlier works is a good one. Why did it go so wrong say, with Glass, later on?

I think after the success of Einstein he became a "famous composer' so started writing music for people who commissioned him rather than the musicians he had worked with for years. It DID mean he could give up being a taxi driver SO I wouldn't begrudge it.
It is a perfect example of how being conventionally "successful" isn't always desirable IMV

[Pulcinella]

Thats what we need, a minimalism thread.

But surely it could only have a few messages on it, or maybe many the same, just shifted by a syllable or two?

[teamsaint]

But surely it could only have a few messages on it, or maybe many the same, just shifted by a syllable or two?

Something along those lines had occurred to me.

Or we could just rename " Another go" and do a bit of judicious " find and replace?"

[Bryn]

Thats what we need, a minimalism thread.

Do bear in mind that the term was introduced, w.r.t. music, by Michael Nyman, having borrowed it from the visual arts for a 1968 article he wrote for The Spectator re. Cornelius Cardew. It is rejected by most of those composers who introduced the process. Indeed, until Michael 'coined' the term the genre was more usually referred to as process music, (setting a process in motion and letting it run).

[teamsaint]

Do bear in mind that the term was introduced, w.r.t. music, by Michael Nyman, having borrowed it from the visual arts for a 1968 article he wrote for The Spectator re. Cornelius Cardew. It is rejected by most of those composers who introduced the process. Indeed, until Michael 'coined' the term the genre was more usually referred to as process music, (setting a process in motion and letting it run).

Precisely.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I think after the success of Einstein he became a "famous composer' so started writing music for people who commissioned him rather than the musicians he had worked with for years. It DID mean he could give up being a taxi driver SO I wouldn't begrudge it.
It is a perfect example of how being conventionally "successful" isn't always desirable IMV

[Beef Oven!]

I think after the success of Einstein he became a "famous composer' so started writing music for people who commissioned him rather than the musicians he had worked with for years. It DID mean he could give up being a taxi driver SO I wouldn't begrudge it.
It is a perfect example of how being conventionally "successful" isn't always desirable IMV

Yes, that’s probably it.

[Keraulophone]

We sang Totus Tuus by Henryk Górecki a few weeks back.

After five minutes, we'd definitely had enough, but were only halfway through.

Like much muzakal wallpaper of this ilk, some may find it fractionally better to listen to than to perform.


Controlled lines by New College Choir here, though:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GT-fogvEMTs

P.S. The film Higgi - The Movie, about Edward Higginbottom's final months as College Organist, is presently being completed by a French team. Can't wait.

[Nick Armstrong]

Schwanda the Effing Bagpiper - it really is a particularly annoying piece of music.

Had to find a place in this thread, Richard!

[Richard Tarleton]

Had to find a place in this thread, Richard!

Ha ha, yes, I'd forgotten about this thread.

The really disturbing thing is that RC really likes it, a lot in fact, and will play it again in a few weeks' time.

[MickyD]

Rimsky-Korsakov's 'Flight of the Bumblebee' surely qualifies, too.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Rimsky-Korsakov's 'Flight of the Bumblebee' surely qualifies, too.

From a performing point of view, yes. I'b been practising it for years on the piano.

A few years ago, I arranged it for woodwind quartet. The performers sightread it impeccably, apart from the oboist .

[Tony Halstead]

From a performing point of view, yes. I'b been practising it for years on the piano.

A few years ago, I arranged it for woodwind quartet. The performers sightread it impeccably, apart from the oboist .

You should have offered him/ her a few lessons, then, Alpie!

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

You should have offered him/ her a few lessons, then, Alpie!

No need to rub it in.