David Maslanka wrote a concerto for 2 horns and hind ensemble. I want
to say that it was called Sea Changes (or something similar) and was
premiered at ASU.
It's pretty idiomatic for Maslanka, so if you like his music, you'll
probably like the piece. It's hell on the percussionists, though
I don't think the question is whether we can separate Mahler's Judaism
from his person, it's whether we can separate Mahler the person from the
music he wrote.
Wouldn't the music be just be great if it were written by computer
algorithm? Or does his story make the music better?
Are we richer
It was a prisoner-of-war camp (he was a captured French soldier), and he
died in 1992 (Messiaen, Copland, Bernstein -- bad year for composers).
There's more to the story, too.
When his unit was captured, he was carrying a pillowcase full of papers.
When the Germans tried to take it from him he
Hans brings up an interesting question here -- should the
biographical information about a composer inform our understanding of
their work?
Does the knowledge that Mahler was a Jewish composer forced to
superficially adopt Christianity in order to work change the way we
hear his music? Sh
It really depends on the nature of the recording. There are
essentially two types of orchestral recordings nowadays -- those that
attempt to reproduce a "live" sound, and studio recordings that are
after an often non-acoustic sound. Film scores fall into the latter
catagory, as do many orch
Alan Hovhanness wrote a concerto called "Artik" that's Armenian in
flavor (the title refers to an traditional octagonal Armenian church
if I remember correctly).
The biggest difficulty is that the piano reduction is horrible -- it
should have a string orchestra if at all possible. If not, i
Hans is definitely right that changing equipment doesn't change my
skill level, but I have enjoyed playing some horns more than others.
Playing Strauss on a fat, old Hoyer has an entirely different feel
than playing it on my Conn. I still struggle with the same passages
and have the same pr
Is anyone aware of a recording of the Alun Hoddinott Horn Sonata?
ArkivMusic and Amazon both strike out (they only list the Tuckwell
recording of the concerto, nothing with the Sonata).
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