Klarinet Archive - Posting 000022.txt from 2005/01

From: "Matthew Lloyd" <matthew@-----.uk>
Subj: RE: [kl] Your Hit Parade
Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2005 15:49:30 -0500

We're certainly at cross purposes here - one way or another.....

I do not and would not dismiss Tchaikovsky. But I think he's a much
greater figure than Rachmaninoff.

I suppose my own "baggage" is that I resent the idea that composers such
as either of these (both of whom are second rate compared to Mozart -
but then who isn't?) jump to the top of the "hit parade".

As to that dreadful Lark thing - depresses me every time I hear it. And
the Bruch is pure saccharin.=20

Perhaps I was overstating it using the pearl among swine metaphor
without some sort of smiley, but equally I think that a work such as
K622 sitting between two works of ANY other composer will stand head and
shoulders above the other two!

We're not really that far off agreement I suspect!

However my real venom is to the idea of a "hit parade" per se!=20

Matthew

-----Original Message-----
From: Ormondtoby Montoya [mailto:orm1ondtoby@-----.net]=20
Sent: 03 January 2005 20:38
To: klarinet@-----.org
Subject: RE: [kl] Your Hit Parade

Matthew=A0wrote:

> 1812 is Tchaikovsky? Cappriccio Italien ditto?

Yes.

Matthew, perhaps my "where I live" comment was unnecessarily sarcastic,
but I have never been able to understand why some people dismiss
Tchaikovsky. I *can* understand why some people dismiss Vaughan
Williams's music (repetitive, doesn't lead anywhere), but the
Rachmaninoff and Tchaikovsky?

(Heh! I know that some people don't enjoy mushrooms or salmon either.)

....anyway, I didn't mean to be abrasive; but "pearl among swine" is a
strong metaphor for music which (imo) has real value. FWIW. YMMV.

Cheers,
Ormond

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