sgcim Posted March 9, 2019 Report Share Posted March 9, 2019 Anthony Thomasini wrote an article in last week's NY Times about a topic I feel strongly about: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/01/arts/music/american-composers-leon-botstein.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rooster_Ties Posted March 10, 2019 Report Share Posted March 10, 2019 Very nice that the article includes links to listen to all of these specific pieces. Vivian Fine: Concertante for Piano and Orchestra (1944) Walter Piston: Concerto for Viola and Orchestra (1957) Harold Shapero: Symphony for Classical Orchestra (1947) Norman Dello Joio: Meditations on Ecclesiastes for String Orchestra (1956) Irving Fine: Symphony (1962) Samuel Barber: Piano Concerto (1962) Virgil Thomson: Symphony on a Hymn Tune (1928) I have to confess to only being substantially familiar with Piston, (Irving) Fine, Barber, and Thompson -- all of whom I have multiple CD's by. The other three I only have the vaguest awareness of (and I look forward to hearing the 3 examples they linked to). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sgcim Posted March 10, 2019 Author Report Share Posted March 10, 2019 8 16 hours ago, Rooster_Ties said: Very nice that the article includes links to listen to all of these specific pieces. Vivian Fine: Concertante for Piano and Orchestra (1944) Walter Piston: Concerto for Viola and Orchestra (1957) Harold Shapero: Symphony for Classical Orchestra (1947) Norman Dello Joio: Meditations on Ecclesiastes for String Orchestra (1956) Irving Fine: Symphony (1962) Samuel Barber: Piano Concerto (1962) Virgil Thomson: Symphony on a Hymn Tune (1928) I have to confess to only being substantially familiar with Piston, (Irving) Fine, Barber, and Thompson -- all of whom I have multiple CD's by. The other three I only have the vaguest awareness of (and I look forward to hearing the 3 examples they linked to). No need to confess my son.We are all victims of the Great 'Tonal Cleansing' alluded to in the 60 years too late article by Thomasini. Other direct victims included John Lessard (who defected after suffering the panic of being left out) Koechlin, Hanson, Harris, Persichetti, Schuman, Walton, Cowell, Ruggles, Chavez, Villa-Lobos, Crumb and many others. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted March 10, 2019 Report Share Posted March 10, 2019 Dello Joio won a Pulitzer for that piece, so I guess the cleansing wasn't totally successful. I'm suspicious of Agenda Motherfuckers, I don't care where they are. The truth is enough, everything else is just sociopolitical chessturbation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sgcim Posted March 11, 2019 Author Report Share Posted March 11, 2019 Huh? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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