Stockhausen, Karlheinz (1928-2007) 4-9 Jan

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I refer m'learnéd friend to the OP:

Having lived for the past year or so with Schoenberg/Gould piano pieces on my CD player, the comparison with Stockhausen's "drawings", and other piano pieces on last night's H&N was immediate.

But the immediate and noticeable difference is that Schoenberg's pieces were so melancholic - full of Angst, I think the term is. Stockhausen's works in contrast are actually very happy and cheerful.

In response to which I pointed out Arnie in happy mode, to which RB made the comment which you quote*.

(And, in rejoinder to which, I deleted the comment "and don't call me Shirley".)

[Nick Armstrong]

I refer m'learnéd friend to the OP:

In response to which I pointed out Arnie in happy mode, to which RB made the comment which you quote*.

(And, in rejoinder to which, I deleted the comment "and don't call me Shirley".)

Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit drinking.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

You mean there's ever a "right" one?!

[Nick Armstrong]

You mean there's ever a "right" one?!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeI5ke0BENw

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeI5ke0BENw

Oh, brilliant! I'd completely forgotten that runner!

[Quarky]

Stockhausen's portrayal of a Woman's madness absolutely compelling on H&N last night. Gather his mother was killed by the Nazis for that reason.

Hear and Now going from stength to strength!

[Nick Armstrong]

"Stockhausen when came to Huddersfield" Radio FOUR, Thursday 19.11.15

Can't see any reference to this so far.

Another mysterious example of R4 broadcasting a programme which looks more suited to R3 (presumably because someone on R3 will be too busy playing music backwards... actually, it's too late in the morning to clash with the fun and games but why let chronological accuracy stand in the way of rhetorical effect...? )

[Bryn]

Indeed, clearly to highbrow for Radio 3 these days.

[pastoralguy]

Thanks for the heads up. I saw him in Edinburgh and he really struggled to make sense of our Queens Hall. He started out by saying that concert hall construction was too centred on acoustic music and radicals such as himself were not given, as he saw it, their due.

I seem to remember that he went down like a lead balloon.

[Sydney Grew]

. . . I seem to remember that he went down like a lead balloon.

Nevertheless it does not of course do to attach blame to the man himself; he poor unsound fellow was a product of the circumstances of the Second War and not only that, his mother poor woman was unhinged before him.

[mercia]

"When Stockhausen Came to Huddersfield"

Radio 4 this morning 11:30 - the ubiquitous Ian McMillan

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06pd3bt

[ahinton]

Radio 4 this morning 11:30 - the ubiquitous Ian McMillan
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06pd3bt

Might there be some kind of umbilical connection between ubiquity and the surname McMillan (however it's spelt)?

By the way, I've never forgotten the copy of a Daily Telegraph (I think) article by the music critic Martin Cooper entitled Stockhausen's Cosmic Trips sent to me by Sorabji around 40 years ago in which, in characteristic red ink, he had lifted the third letter of the second word onto the front of the third one...

[Bryn]

Might there be some kind of umbilical connection between ubiquity and the surname McMillan (however it's spelt)?

By the way, I've never forgotten the copy of a Daily Telegraph (I think) article by the music critic Martin Cooper entitled Stockhausen's Cosmic Trips sent to me by Sorabji around 40 years ago in which, in characteristic red ink, he had lifted the third letter of the second word onto the front of the third one...

What a Berberian!

[Beef Oven!]

...............sent to me by Sorabji around 40 years ago in which, in characteristic red ink, he had lifted the third letter of the second word onto the front of the third one...

A gratuitous name-drop that would even do MrGG proud!

[ahinton]

A gratuitous name-drop that would even do MrGG proud!

But I still have the evidence!

Anyway, why are there two threads on this?