Klarinet Archive - Posting 001345.txt from 1998/07

From: "Mr. Sheim" <fsheim@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] some modern music is just trash to me
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1998 21:56:38 -0400

At 09:48 PM 7/29/98 -0400, you wrote:
>Mary Sotnik wrote:
>>
>> > >> Certainly, there are some forms of music today that are really bad,
>> > >
>> >
>> > Which forms are 'bad', and won't the people who really like these forms
>be a
>> > bit upset when you tell them? :-)
>>
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>> Craig Earl Countryman
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>This is my response to the above statement.
>
>My soapbox is with some of the extreme modern atonal pieces that composers
>pass off as works of music. Experimental junk to me. I was listening to a
>Violinist (an upper Chair in the Phila. Orch.) discuss his dislike of
>modern, atonal, classical music saying that it alienates the audience, and
>is pushed by a very small, but very forceful, loud spoken group. (I'm
>speaking of the later stuff, past Boulez Domaines, past Smith 5 pieces) I
>heard, or at least sat through some of that at ClarFest. The Larsen that
>was performed - I like. Some others, I had to endure listening to them.
>There are lost of contemporary pieces that I like, but a lot of them you
>CAN hum on the way out of the concert hall (without sounding psychotic)
>
>On a more positive note, one of the highlights of ClarFest for me was
>hearing the Concerto by Prinz played by Howard Klug. Nice piece(to me).
>
>Sure I'll get flamed, but oh well, I spoke.
>
>David Blumberg
>reedman@-----.com
>http://www.sneezy.org/clarinet/Music/Blumberg.html
>
>
I agree with you. I enjoyed the Prinz Concerto too. Going into the hall
though, I wasn't quite sure what to expect. As a matter of fact, I was
pretty sure I WOULDN'T like it. I was pleasantly surprised.

Fred (fsheim@-----.com)

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