Mr Says! / Herr Sagt!

I have Jon Rose's "Violin Music for Restaurants" (featuring the legendary Jo 'Doc' Rosenberg) in my CD collection.  I used to regard it as the worst purchase ever.  However, since a certain Ms Lenz alerted me to Jon Rose's website I've gradually warmed to him.  This fence stuff an Bryn's link is helping even more.

So, perhaps stcik with it, and open your mind a little......?

Tommo

Oh I think I could warm to the guy himself, Tommo. Seems a decent chap, from the clip - imaginative, not at all pompous, articulate, pleasant - and no doubt with a good sense of humour. But these are all attributes possessed by our local taxi-driver, too. The difference being that our local taxi-driver doesn't pretend to be able to write music...

Bryn's clip didn't allow a listen to the sound - at least, not to the sound he wrote that I heard, relating to a Fence. And it's the fellow's sounds that I have a problem with. I haven't time now but I'll look for some link if there is one anywhere.

Pigs may well fly before I feel anything for this sort of stuff: I like many kinds of music, but they must all be at least vaguely recognisable as such.

bws S-S!

Well, let's start with this and then have a look around he site that carries it.

After reading the last post I will not look at my next taxi drivers differently.
May be he is a musician, or an artist or a novel writer.

Thank you T-I-N for your post. I would never come accross this information on my own.

I remember reading about a composer who was insurance broker in the USA. I forgot his name now.

I don't know Charles Ive's music. I may be heard something, but not enough to adopt him as one of a composers that I am familiar with. (in Russian language there are two words for you: familiar and formal. I am on formal terms with him).

Thank you, BobbyZ. I will have to investigate that. I am planning to order a few pieces of music for piano. This sonata sounds interesting.
I have a very viola player here. She is busy at the moment, but she may have time later. I have Rebeca Clarke sonata for us to play. Her teacher said it is good sonata.
Do you know anything about Ives Second sonata? What kind of music is it?
We can try different things here. We can play it for ourselves, or perhaps include it in a concert to try it out and to introduce people to it.

Ive's sonata sounds interesting to me and I am not afraid of dissonances. I was good with XX century dissonances. I lost contact with a very new developments because I was too far from musical world. Ca is not really a Mekka for new things and I had little contacts with musicians there anyway.

I am considering ordering the sonata, but is it very challenging technically. I am kind of an average player with little time. I think I could consider it and play it from the score (not by heart).

40 min sounds like a lot to me. May be I will limit myself with just listening. I do like to see the score too. Sometimes it is interesting to see the notation and how it is done.

Thank you very much for your post. This is for BobbyZ.