American Classics

[teamsaint]

If you don't like it, that's fine. You didn't like the Joan Tower Concerto For Orchestra either. I think that both Tower and Rorem are excellent composers and have produced masterpieces. It's a shame that you've unintentionally scared teams ain't.

I will have to man up on this one..........!!
I am fortifying myself with some Webern.....

[amateur51]

I will have to man up on this one..........!!
I am fortifying myself with some Webern.....

Attaboy, teams!

[Beef Oven]

I reckon that teams is more than capable of making up his own mind, don't you Beefy?

He stated that he is worried, I was not speaking for him. A bit of advice, push your bed against the wall.

[teamsaint]

no, definitely making my own mind up on this one.
I could still cancel the order, not yet despatched.

but I am going for it.............life on the edge !!

Rubbbra 2 last night. Not his jolliest !!

(Londoners speak in code a lot of the time, it seems to me...)

[amateur51]

If you don't like it, that's fine. You didn't like the Joan Tower Concerto For Orchestra either. I think that both Tower and Rorem are excellent composers and have produced masterpieces. It's a shame that you've unintentionally scared teams ain't.

Masterpieces? If they have, please recommend them & I'll listen openly.

I listened to Towers' Concerto for orchestra and said that I enjoyed it but found it ultimately unmemorable. Listening to other pieces by her led me to believe that she tends to repeat herself particularly in the use of loud percussion. The two Rorem symphonies do not show, to my untrained ear, little evidence of being symphonies, something which I have found sadly common in USA symphonies (but I'm always open to education - I greatly appreciate the referral to Harris symphony no3 ).

I do not write these thoughts to contradict you; I write them because I want to present my point of view' and you're welcome to respond. OK?

[Nick Armstrong]

A bit of advice, push your bed against the wall.

Old American Indian saying, Beefy?

[teamsaint]

Been having a good listen to Barber Symphony #1 today.
Not an obscure "lost " classic I know, but what a rip snorter of a piece it is.
Going to become a favourite, I think.

and Ned's trio of Symphonies has turned up......

[Beef Oven]

Been having a good listen to Barber Symphony #1 today.
Not an obscure "lost " classic I know, but what a rip snorter of a piece it is.
Going to become a favourite, I think.

and Ned's trio of Symphonies has turned up......

Barber's Symphonies 1&2 are glorious, I adore both works. Rorem's Symphonies are top- notch too (though there are dissenters on here).

[Beef Oven]

Old American Indian saying, Beefy?

No walls in wig-wams!!!!

[ahinton]

Barber's Symphonies 1&2 are glorious, I adore both works. Rorem's Symphonies are top- notch too (though there are dissenters on here).

Agreed about the Barber; don't really know the Rorem yet.

[ahinton]

Rubbbra 2 last night. Not his jolliest !!

But then nor's 1, which at times threatens to sound to me almost like a kind of premature English Pettersson in places...

[teamsaint]

But then nor's 1, which at times threatens to sound to me almost like a kind of premature English Pettersson in places...

Pettersson is on my "to do " list....so will have to take your word for it, AH, but it sounds like a good recommendation.
I know Beef Oven is a big fan....

[Beef Oven]

Leonard Bernstein - West Side Story, Symphonic Dances. Florida Philharmonic, James Judd.

[teamsaint]

Ned Rorem #3 as recommended by Beefy/Roehre/Suffy.
Oddly, has taken me a while to get into this stuff.

[Beef Oven]

Ned Rorem #3 as recommended by Beefy/Roehre/Suffy.
Oddly, has taken me a while to get into this stuff.

What do you think of the Rorem ts?