For the most part my interest is in modern classical music, with a concentration on some of the less well-known composers working with 12-tone technique and variants of serialism. My own compositions explore dodecaphony, and some of them are featured on this channel, which also features video versions of my hit podcast "Explore Ecstatic Sensuality . A secondary purpose for this channel is, through brief promo reels, to illustrate my accomplishments in the motion picture industry by highlighting films which I developed and on which I supervised production as a corporate chief executive, running the Hollywood/U.S. operation for a media company based in Europe. I am now active as a novelist, as a screenwriter, and as a producer. (Note: I do not accept unsolicited submissions, whether of intellectual property or of romance.)
How did I arrive here? Via Wikipedia, reading about composers George Frederick McKay, William Bolcom, John Verrall, Reginald Owen Morris, Jean Coulthard and Barbara Pentland, all unknown to me. How many composers are there? I counted five thousand so far and there are more and more every day. This one is noteworthy.
My introduction to this great composer’s work some 50 years ago, it never fails to thrill and inspire. Glamorous, black-and-white Cold War music. Love it.
Hi everyone! Does somebody know what's the source of this Adorno-tex above: "Critics cannot be blamed for not having understood this latest form of rationality set free; for, by its own agenda, it wishes not to be understood but to be demonstrated. Any question regarding the function of any phenomenon in the context of the composition is responded to with derivations from within the system itself." Would be a great support for me, thanks!
Claude, Ballif a été l'inventeur d'un système de composition nommée "métatonalité", dans lequel il effaçait en quelque sorte, la frontière entre tonalité et atonalité. Un des principes de base de ce système est l'existence d'une note pivot, appelée par lui "orient", qui joue un peu le rôle d'organisateur dans son système harmonique.
Wallingford Riegger was an American composer who is basically ignored today. That’s a shame because Riegger was truly gifted. His Music for Brass Choir is one of the greatest modern brass pieces, and his Symphony No. 3, once heard on classical radio, was in the curriculum of music schools. Then came the great dumbing down in classical radio. Riegger’s music, direct and whimsical, is also uncompromising and even at times violent, so look out! This excerpt, recorded in the 1950s, contains the second movement from Riegger’s Symphony No. 4. Short motives, like mysterious clues in a Hitchcock film, morph into a galloping, oddly Spanish theme and then into strange motives again. The outer movements mix pleasant melodies with harsh climaxes. This is great music that you’ll hardly ever hear over local classical radio these days. - Greg La Traille (From my review in the Sacramento News and Review, 2003)
Music is (basically) the organization of SOUND. You may need to stretch your mind a bit to appreciate the more modern idioms. I'm NO expert, though I HAVE had musical training. I seem to love music I don't understand, if that makes any sense(!)
@@kraka2oanIner I feel the same way-sometimes it's exciting to hear music that doesn't sound like anything I've ever heard before. I get that from Babbitt, Cage, and Carter, among others.
The sensitivity of that man who was considered as an 'intellectual" is extreme. BTW, he said to an opponent: " >I have better composing as an intellectual rather than a stupid man'
Have been so lucky to meet a wonderful man who also loves music and has a amazing LP player. I told him how much I loved Joy of Cooking, he had no idea who I was talking about but started searching and found Closer to the Ground just for me. He says it makes his speakers smile. This album takes me way back and now I get to enjoy once again.
Genius is accorded to Sch without need of the tourists who pass through giving the nod. It is true that ultimately said tourists are the ones who help to build popularity but music unlike visual art takes the longest time to achieve notoriety. That said sch is a genius of the first rank. Dissonance is relative. And 12 tone composition has already passed the test of viability.
