Stefan Wood

I too say "And???" Also, who ever said that Schoenberg said that we "should begin all over again"? Not Schoenberg, for one, AFAIK. As for "In each generation .. . the past is indelibly printed on our central nervous systems. Each of us is part of a vast physical, mental, spiritual web of previous lives, existences, modes of thoughts, behaviors and perceptions of actions and feelings reaching much further back than what we call history," well, for sure. The problem is that if we're talking about music, we're talking about a lot of different ways of making music over the course of time, while Rochberg, when writing music in the pastiche-of-styles mode that he more or less came to favor because he found Schoenberg's ways of music emotionality invalid, tended (to use a term that usually I don't like but that fits) "privilege" ways of making music that date back to, at the earliest, only the mid-18th Century. Also, the turning point for Rochberg, previously involved in writing music in what he felt was a Schoenberg-influenced manner, came by his own account after the death of his young son and his resulting inability to write music in his prior manner that in his view adequately expressed the intense emotions he felt about his young son's death and that he wanted to convey in music. Well, if that was how Rochberg felt, that's how he felt. But what a strange thing to say or imply of a composer, i.e. Schoenberg, whose music frequently was emotionally eruptive to an extreme. What, for example, of Schoenberg's String Trio, which scarifyingly conveys the composer's near-death experience from a stroke? And "Ewartung" isn't exactly a walk in the park. One could say that there is little or no Schoenberg music of any period that is, say, amiable, but then he wasn't an amiable guy. I should add that while I tend to dislike the often geschrie-heavy music that Rochberg wrote in the first flush of his conversion/reversion experience, I've recently discovered his expertly crafted piano music, which so far isn't that way at all. I think the context of when the quote was taken is important. His string quartets cyle, which I find quite remarkable, follow this struggle of breaking with the past, then reconciling with it -- the earlier ones having that geschrei, the latter ones quite different, almost lyrical.

Yup. Preordered.

Can't bring up the link, but there is a second Bernstein Sony box. A whopping 80 discs of Concertos and Orchestral Works. You can preorder at amazon.co.uk (approx$" $100 shipped)

Someone might be breathlessly awaiting this set. I'll pass.... I'll wait for this to be heavily discounted:

Reading topics like this and on other forums makes me ask the same question, and then I realize -- oh, some of these guys are retired. I have bought some of the deals mentioned, with the idea that I am going to get to them in the near future. On vacation, or long weekends while I am doing some art work.

Easy listening? World music?

Cal was probably considered higher on the market chain than Lalo, especially with the former's success in the Latin genre. Never considered Several Shades of Jade to be an exotica album, excellent that it is.

ouch.

Worst game I have ever seen in a World Cup. Germany was great, but Brazil got exposed, badly.

http://classique.abeillemusique.com/CD/Classique/OC090/4260034860902/Oehms-Classics/Stanislaw-Skrowaczewski/90th-Birthday-Collection/cleart-74421.html Under $50 shipped to the US. Pounced on it.

I have it as well. Overwhelming in quantity, yet great listening. There's that blog site that has released (apparently with Dunmall's permission) another 40-50 sessions.

Devastated. At the end they played very well, but they still are not contenders.

Damn it. Listened and Ciccolini gets kicked to the curb. Ordered this set.

Brazil squeaks by in the shoot out. I wish these teams had met later, Chile played awesome this tournament.

Link?

Tracks that still work for me are In My Time of Dying and The Ocean.

2-2 Portugal US. Damn, on the LAST play of the game, Portugal ties it. Ugh!!!!!!!

Tied!

Shocked. Germany down to Ghana! Still plenty of time left.

Argentina escapes, thanks to Messi.

ugh!

France is murdering the Swiss.

I don't think Ross is a good writer. Reminds me of Blake Gopnik, brother to Adam, who also writes for the New Yorker. Blake wrote about art in the Washington Post for several years, and had a slightly more condesending tone than Ross, but no less fervent about describing events and things. Everyone who was in the art scene in DC hated Blake.

I would only pick up III, as it is the one Zep album that has any staying power for me. OK, two - - Houses of the Holy. OK, three -- Physical Graffitti......

Good lord, that's some horrible writing.