American Classics

[MrGongGong]

I just started listening to it.......woke the cat up !

Stick with it
it's wonderful
and the score is a work of great beauty
(as all of his scores are)

[MrGongGong]

I don't own this CD, but I've heard it and it's good. My friend Terry's got it. We call him Tel, he's real name is Terrence. Only his mum calls him that though (his father is deceased). His mum's quite old and frail.

Anyway, at £4.20 incl p&p, why wait!!!?

I'm wearing blue underpants
(thought that might be useful in recommending some more Crumb music )

[teamsaint]

I don't own this CD, but I've heard it and it's good. My friend Terry's got it. We call him Tel, he's real name is Terrence. Only his mum calls him that though (his father is deceased). His mum's quite old and frail.

Anyway, at £4.20 incl p&p, why wait!!!?

cheers, Beefy. I'll see what the charity shops in Fareham have tomorrow, then make a decision !
Not this Terry, by any chance.?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyzZK5zB_3Q

I don't know him at all.

[MrGongGong]

"My mum's got a washing machine"

[teamsaint]

Stick with it
it's wonderful
and the score is a work of great beauty
(as all of his scores are)

I did. Just watched a youtube performance without reading anything about it . Amazing. I'll go back to it after having read more about it, which it clearly needs.
I also had a look at some images of the score, and they are, as you say, quite beautiful.
A great recommendation. Headphones job, though !! Cheers.
Now, must get the washing on.

[MrGongGong]

I am listening to it at the minute.

It is not an easy listen.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqchvQeZjjo

The Kronos version is my favourite
but the Smiths do it very well (Panic free )

I think it's one of the truly great pieces of the last 100 years in the way it draws on the past as well as having a global context and in it's use of extraordinary sonic events

[teamsaint]

I am listening to it at the minute.

It is not an easy listen.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqchvQeZjjo

Sessions 8 will be a relaxing listen later on !!

[MrGongGong]

Sessions 8 will be a relaxing listen later on !!

Followed by Metal Machine Music no doubt (Darling they're playing our tune)

[Beef Oven]

Sessions 8 will be a relaxing listen later on !!

I will come back to the George Crumb, Black Angels Quartet later in the week. I don't know whether I've played too much music or what today, but this work is not 'landing' with me.

Gonna move on to this now.....

William Schuman - Symphony #7

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Most of the US composers I best love have been mentioned (Ives, Carter, Feldman, Sessions, Ruggles, Cage and, yes, Crumb) except for Milton Babbitt> If/when the "US String Quartet" Thread opens, can you please include this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz7vCsTOsu0

Meanwhile, feast your ears on this neglected masterpiece:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SMR5WIgSUg

... by the way, am I allowed to mention Stravinsky, Schoenberg, Varese and Bartok?

[MrGongGong]

Meanwhile, feast your ears on this neglected masterpiece:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SMR5WIgSUg

Great stuff thanks

[Beef Oven]

Most of the US composers I best love have been mentioned (Ives, Carter, Feldman, Sessions, Ruggles, Cage and, yes, Crumb) except for Milton Babbitt> If/when the "US String Quartet" Thread opens, can you please include this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz7vCsTOsu0

Meanwhile, feast your ears on this neglected masterpiece:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SMR5WIgSUg

... by the way, am I allowed to mention Stravinsky, Schoenberg, Varese and Bartok?

No, they are not American for the purposes of this thread And the same goes for Dvorak

I rather hope we'll kick off in this thread soon with American Quartets, (we've mentioned Rochberg's quartets) so we can keep all 'American Classics' in one thread. Although you and MrGG have already begun the American quartets

P.S. ahinton has mentioned Babbitt.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

No, they are not American for the purposes of this thread And the same goes for Dvorak

Well he didn't become an American citizen. Err ... neither did Bartok. As you were!

P.S. ahinton has mentioned Babbitt.

So he did; quite rightly disputing the generally held idea that Babbitt and Sessions are "dry and academic". (Presumably people who say this would prefer them to be "wet and dim"?)

[EdgeleyRob]

I'm sure we've discussed Crumb before ?
but
Black Angels is one of the greatest string quartets of the last century for starters
the most terrifying opening in music
and definitely not "relaxing classics"

I have just listened to this Mr G and found it very difficult.
I am glad I stuck with it but I'm not sure it's for me.

[MrGongGong]

I have just listened to this Mr G and found it very difficult.
I am glad I stuck with it but I'm not sure it's for me.

"difficult" ?
What particularly did you find difficult ?