Klarinet Archive - Posting 000962.txt from 2002/11

From: Karl Krelove <karlkrelove@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] Trivia --- Hindemith
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 18:09:03 -0500

Symphonic Metamorphosis on Themes of von Weber, for a start.

:-)

Karl Krelove

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bill Wright [mailto:Bi6W@-----.net]
> Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2002 10:10 PM
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: Re: [kl] Trivia --- Hindemith
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>
> <><> Dan Leeson wrote:
> I believe it was the planned ballet for what eventually became the
> Symphonic Metamorphosis on themes of von Weber, and the set designer was
> Salvador Dali. Do I get a pizza???
>
>
>
> Yes, you do.
>
> And since (I believe) you live in San Francisco, I may be able to pay up
> someday..... although perhaps in some other currency besides..... pizza.
> Perhaps fresh seafood?
>
> The reason this trivia interested me is because I've always thought of
> Hindemith as pushing the envelope, and thus I was surprised that he
> didn't like Dali's art.
>
> I don't enjoy serial or atonal music, and therefore I don't have even
> one Hindemith composition in my CD collection. But when I consult the
> encyclopedia, it says that Hindemith "showed a free and highly
> resourceful treatment of traditional form and tonality" --- which isn't
> quite the same thing as serial or atonal. Later in his life, "his
> style entered a new phase, marked by increased clarity of tonality and
> form and greater expressiveness of melody."
>
> So perhaps I need to search out a composition or two of his and listen
> to them. Any suggestions for someone who dislikes serial and atonal and
> strident (such as the yowling first movement of Strauss's Domestic
> Symphony, to which I would not listen again, even if you offered me a
> rosewood basset horn with gold keys as payment)?
>
> Regards,
> Bill
>
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