Klarinet Archive - Posting 000021.txt from 2008/01

From: Fred Jacobowitz <fbjacobo@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] How to Listen to and Understand Great Music
Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2008 16:46:31 -0500

I **STRONGLY** second Mark's opinion. I AM a professional with 2.5
degrees and I loved Greenberg's recorded lectures on Mahler,
Shostakovich, etc. These should be mandatory listening for any
serious musician.

Fred Jacobowitz

Kol Haruach Klezmer Band
Ebony and Ivory Duo

You don't get harmony when everybody sings the same note.
~Doug Floyd

On Jan 2, 2008, at 10:46 AM, Mark Charette wrote:

> I'm sure many of you already know about this, but for those that
> don't:
>
> I borrowed the set of 48 lectures by Prof. Robert Greenberg from my
> local
> library:
>
> "How to Listen to and Understand Great Music"
>
> produced by The Teaching Company. I'm halfway through and having a
> riot.
> If you're not a music major this is a great intro to the history,
> terminology, structure and construction, along with appreciation of
> Western music. If you _are_ a music major, it still might be worth
> listening to ...
>
> From a lecture using Mozart's Gm Symphony on the Sonata Form and
> Contrasts
> ...
>
> "The only chance a conductor has of getting to heaven is to take all
> repeats."
>
> Mark C.
>
>
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