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Thu Aug-06-09 11:21 PM
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What's the strangest classical music you've ever heard? |
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I just heard this one, "The Unanswered Question" by Charles Ives.
Weird.
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Fri Aug-07-09 01:41 AM
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1. Die Hoelle Rache Kocht in Meinem Herzen |
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by Mozart
loosely translated as "The Hell of Vengeance that is Burning in my Heart"
It's an aria about how the evil Queen of the Night wants her daughter to not just kill Zarastro, but make him feel the "pains of death". And if the daughter doesn't kill him, then she will be SORRY!
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Fri Aug-07-09 02:25 AM
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2. Ives can be pretty seriously odd, but yet always fun and exciting. |
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The strangest for me might be Harry Partch's works or some of Stockhausen's stuff (his Helicopter Quartet, for instance).
Takemitsu writes some pretty odd and wild pieces, as well as Xenakis and Tan Dun.
Tan Dun's Water Passion (after the passion of St. Matthew) is a gloriously beautiful piece of music, but not in the normal tonal sense. Makes exciting use of water as an instrument, as well as singing and regular instruments.
And of course, one has to give absolute total props to George Crumb, the master of modern music.
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Fri Aug-07-09 06:16 AM
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3. While I LOVE "The Unanswered Question" |
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And I LOVE "Circus Band March"
There is nothing fun about the "Robert Browning Overture."
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Fri Aug-07-09 09:01 AM
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4. Pierrot Lunaire ... like nails on a chalkboard! n/t |
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Fri Aug-07-09 05:09 PM
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12. If you want an interesting book to read... |
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check out Alex Ross' "The Rest Is Noise". It lends some interesting insight to 20th Century music...of various genres. :hi:
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Fri Aug-07-09 05:12 PM
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14. Indeed. I got to see it live, and everyone who knew me thought that I would die for it. |
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Instead, it felt like being slapped from several different directions, one at a time, but randomly.
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Sat Aug-08-09 04:19 AM
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18. The local opera did a production of Wozzeck a couple of years ago. |
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After the first rehearsal I spoke to a friend of mine who played in the opera orchestra.
He said the hardest part about learning the music was that you couldn't tell if you played a wrong note.
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Fri Aug-07-09 10:28 AM
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5. I don't know the name, some Ukranian composer. |
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It was really dark and moody. It made Wagner sound like Abba. I liked it. :)
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Fri Aug-07-09 11:42 AM
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6. classical done with balloons! Thanks to my local play anything college station |
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Fri Aug-07-09 01:54 PM
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11. Don't forget the vegetable orchestra |
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Fri Aug-07-09 12:43 PM
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7. The most unusual live concert piece I've heard was... |
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...a realization of Ives' unfinished "Universe Symphony" by Larry Austin.
Ives' uncompleted Universe Symphony carried the independence of musical groups to the point of visionary impossibility in a work that proposed to set multiple choruses and orchestras playing from valleys and mountaintops.
The version I heard consisted of a greatly expanded orchestra augmented with a Synclavier system (digital synthesis). There were four conductors on stage, as parts of the orchestra were playing in many different tempos at certain points.
The most remarkable thing to me was not the effect it had on me while listening, but how differently I heard the everyday environmental sounds that reached my ears as I walked home after the performance.
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Fri Aug-07-09 12:52 PM
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Fri Aug-07-09 01:51 PM
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10. Yup! Good Ole John Cage |
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Fri Aug-07-09 01:30 PM
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9. An improvised "comtemporary music" piece at the Royal Albert Hall |
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The piece was crap but I got to hear the huge pipe organ and see (and photograph) the console.
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Fri Aug-07-09 05:11 PM
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13. "Threnody" by Penderecki. Preferably, the EMI recording. |
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Sat Aug-08-09 12:32 AM
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15. You talking about his "Threnody for the Victims of Horishima"? That's a hell of a piece. |
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I saw the score for it once - amazing!
Love it. Really captures the pain and awfulness of a city being wiped out by a nuclear bomb.
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Sat Aug-08-09 01:31 AM
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16. Oh, I have a story about that! |
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When I was a kid, in 68, 69, 70, we had season tickets to the Houston Symphony. Andre Previn was the conductor (until he got fired for chasing Mia Farrow).
He played the Threnody. He said they would play it again after the regular program was over so we could get used to it.
About 3/4 of the audience left after the first playing. We stayed.
The weirdest thing I remember is the celli sounding like droning B-29s. They did something weird with their vibrato.
It was interesting.
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Sat Aug-08-09 08:28 AM
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19. Ernst Toch "Geographical Fugue" |
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I've heard weirder ones, but this earworm spoken word fugue has stayed in my head since I performed it in college.
I tried to get a youtube, but it's got to be in the original German to sound right ("Ratibor, und der Fluss Mississippi, und die Stadt Honolulu, und die See Titicaca"), and with a big chorus.
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