Klarinet Archive - Posting 000658.txt from 1998/12

From: MARK <mgustav@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Bible and music - changed question
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1998 21:28:49 -0500

If you want a challenge, take on Schoenberg's "Moses und Aron". He not only
omits the second "a" in Aarons name out of superstition (reducing 13 letters
with the "a" to 12 letters without the "a") but challenges the logic of the
story.

It will be performed by the Met this year.

Mark Gustavson

Benjamin A. Maas wrote:

> <The class is only on the Hebrew Bible, so I thought that this would be an
> inappropriate topic.>
>
> What about the music of Leonard Bernstein? I can't seem to find my
> recordings/info right now, but I seem to remember that the text of the first
> symphony is a Hebrew Text. The other symphonies have some texts and
> religious significance, but I don't know them as well. His Mass is also
> unlike any other mass our there...
>
> --Ben
>
> Benjamin Maas
> Clarinetist and Digital Recording Engineer
> Student, University of Southern California
> Executive Director, Digital Renaissance Consort
> bmaas@-----.net
> bmaas@-----.edu
>
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