Klarinet Archive - Posting 000030.txt from 2005/01

From: Adam Michlin <amichlin@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] Your Hit Parade
Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2005 01:55:59 -0500

At 12:38 PM 1/3/2005 -0800, Ormondtoby Montoya wrote:
>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?

Holst intensely disliked Tchaikovsky's music. If I remember correctly (I
don't currently have access to the reference), he essentially found
Tchaikovsky's music overly sentimental.

I don't find it as such (well, ok, maybe some of it), but I can see how
Holst and others might. Especially if one sticks to the ballets.

>(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.

I agree. I greatly enjoy all the pieces listed. Trying to rank them,
however, seems a bit like trying to rank flavors of ice cream. An amusing
diversion, perhaps, but hardly worth fretting excessively over.

-Adam

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