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Author Topic: The Quartets of Sydney Grew  (Read 2209 times)
thompson1780
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« Reply #15 on: 23:27:58, 11-12-2007 »

I've never seen so many people weighing in to talk about music they've never even heard!

One thing I think we can reasonably assume, though: they're string quartets, to be played by four players (seated).

Syd,

Would you prefer your performers to sit or to stand?  How would you like the cellist?

By the way, I play viola (on which occasions I take the name 'Hull1980' Wink), so perhaps A, Strina and I could form the top 3 parts of a performance of your work(s)?  Do you perchance play 'cello?

Tommo
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« Reply #16 on: 23:28:25, 11-12-2007 »

I've never seen so many people weighing in to talk about music they've never even heard!

One thing I think we can reasonably assume, though: they're string quartets,

This is making the rather drastic assumption that his muse flies in the same direction as his sensibilities. 

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to be played by four players (seated).
Funny; I was always under the impression that they played like this:

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this:

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or this:

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or, as has become more fashionable as of late, the playing of late Beethoven quartets while perched atop a banister; here's a photograph of them waiting for their instruments to arrive:

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I think you'll find plenty of other photographic evidence backing up my claim!  On chairs! Hah! My, you are naive.  I was told by a good second-violinist acquaintance of mine that he hasn't so much as seen a chair in so many years as there are strings on a viola d'amour!
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« Reply #17 on: 23:32:20, 11-12-2007 »

It is high time, we feel, for Sydney Grew to satisfy the interest of his fellow-members and to "spill the beans", as it were.

Well we would like to do that but certainly cannot do it until our censured message imparting to Members More on Feldman has been reinstated in its entirety. We do not think such unilateral censorship is acceptable. Yet a moderator has told us that our correction of our own altered message and our polite request that it be permitted to stand is an attempt to "dictate to the Moderation team". It was "not our place" to complain we were told! Has said "team" forgotten so soon that it was set up to serve the Members?

Here in full is the text of the regrettable communication from the "team":

"The title you chose for your Morton Feldman thread was deemed offensive and a complaint was received from another member. This is why it was altered. However, you have chosen to change it back and then dictate to the Moderation team how they should make their decisions: it is not your place to do this."

If this is the way it is going to be we doubt anything much more will be heard from us at all!
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« Reply #18 on: 23:38:41, 11-12-2007 »

or this:

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Inky's 3rd picture at a reasonable size....

Tommo
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« Reply #19 on: 23:46:57, 11-12-2007 »

We would remind the member that it was the title which was deemed offensive, not the thread; and that since he himself has stipulated that unless it bore his original title the whole thread should be removed, we have acceded to his request.
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« Reply #20 on: 23:47:37, 11-12-2007 »

I've never seen so many people weighing in to talk about music they've never even heard!

One thing I think we can reasonably assume, though: they're string quartets,

This is making the rather drastic assumption that his muse flies in the same direction as his sensibilities.
Might not your words "flies" and "muse" be the wrong way round in the given context?...

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to be played by four players (seated).
Funny; I was always under the impression that they played like this:

,

this:

,

or this:

;

or, as has become more fashionable as of late, the playing of late Beethoven quartets while perched atop a banister; here's a photograph of them waiting for their instruments to arrive:

.

I think you'll find plenty of other photographic evidence backing up my claim!  On chairs! Hah! My, you are naive.  I was told by a good second-violinist acquaintance of mine that he hasn't so much as seen a chair in so many years as there are strings on a viola d'amour!
Where are the Bonds when one needs them most? Or, for that matter, the Pavãos?

Personally, I'm just waiting to hear any one of these outfits successfully negotiate the Third Quartet of today's birthday boy while surfboarding in their bikinis (with or without click tracks)...

Best,

Alistair
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« Reply #21 on: 23:53:22, 11-12-2007 »

This is making the rather drastic assumption that his muse flies in the same direction as his sensibilities.
Might not your words "flies" and "muse" be the wrong way round in the given context?...
I don't know; there certainly are precedents:
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(thanks for the advice tommo; fixed...but...Alistair beat me to it!)
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« Reply #22 on: 00:08:41, 12-12-2007 »

May I remind members of my picture of the Duke Quartet which I have posted before? What a shower. Cheesy

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« Reply #23 on: 00:20:37, 12-12-2007 »

The Quatuor Bozzini, with the exception of 'cellist Isabelle Bozzini, play standing.

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« Reply #24 on: 00:35:07, 12-12-2007 »

I'm counting FIVE in the picture on the right.  Is he the page turner? Wink
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« Reply #25 on: 00:53:05, 12-12-2007 »

Erm...aren't you all perhaps barking up the wrong tree?



(member Grew far left, chop in hand)
or indeed



(member Grew second left, man in hand)
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« Reply #26 on: 00:56:29, 12-12-2007 »

a.k.a. Arthur Grewmiaux?
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« Reply #27 on: 07:38:33, 12-12-2007 »

a.k.a. Arthur Grewmiaux?
What a Grewsome thought!...

Best,

Alistair
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« Reply #28 on: 07:46:26, 12-12-2007 »

Does anyone have any ideas how we can overcome this obstacle?


Choose an unpublished work, but with some relevant date on it or something of authenticity, and composer name erased.

But what if, if there happens to be some, we instantly recognise his/her/their style?!
Good question - and one that reminds me of Busoni telling van Dieren (a still unsung hero of the quartet medium) that he would decline to judge an anonymously submitted work of his in a competition because he'd recognise the first bar...

Best,

Alistair
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« Reply #29 on: 07:48:40, 12-12-2007 »

But what if, if there happens to be some, we instantly recognise his/her/their style?!

We already know what the style is: a pastiche of Mozart and Scriabin.
But simultaneously? That would be quite an achievement, would it not? (even if the mind might boggle at the prospect of a "Dissonance" Quartet with a "mystic chord" in it)...

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Alistair
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