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Tapiola - Sibelius
Phlegra - Xenakis
Revelation and Fall - Davies
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Morton Feldman - Madame Press Died Last Week at Ninety
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"People hate anything well made. It gives them a guilty conscience." John Betjeman
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Gordon Kampe - SPAX – Nagelfeld für Ensemble
Philipp Blume - Rosy Derivative
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Morton Feldman - Madame Press Died Last Week at Ninety
Oh, come on; at least even he, had he lived long enough to be in a position to do so, would probably have spared us a sequel of the order of Mr Carter Is Still Alive This Week at Ninety-Eight... Best, Alistair |
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« Reply #35 on: 10:10:20, 13-08-2007 » |
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Westerlinck - Look, a bass clarinet in my garden!
Just makes me smile, that one....
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Made by Thompson & son, at the Violin & c. the West end of St. Paul's Churchyard, LONDON
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Jamie Croft - Who is this Thatcher anyway?
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« Reply #37 on: 11:36:19, 13-08-2007 » |
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Chris Newman - The reason I am unable to live in my country as a composer is a political one
Mark R. Taylor - Victorian Values
Michael Finnissy - We'll get there someday
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'These acts of keeping politics out of music, however, do not prevent musicology from being a political act . . .they assure that every apolitical act assumes a greater political immediacy' - Philip Bohlman, 'Musicology as a Political Act'
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« Reply #38 on: 11:54:26, 13-08-2007 » |
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also fond of both knospend-gespaltener and abglanzbeladen, auseinandergeschrieben Me three... and another Finnissy favourite, Bright Future Ignoring Dark Past. Someone also mentioned good titles in search of a piece, so I offer this (possibly also to the Embarrassing Titles thread): The Bad But Not Very Bad are in Temporary Discomfortfrom a fantastic medieval MS, The Visions of Tondal, about an Irish knight's hellish visions after, er, eating too much at a banquet. Look it up, it's all online here: http://www.getty.edu/art/gettyguide/artObjectDetails?artobj=2383 |
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Another great Finnissy one - False notions of progress (a piece for three oboists, each playing various types of oboe/reed instrument, and who pin parts of the Communist Manifesto onto a board during the piece). Also Multiple Forms of Constraint.
James Clarke - Pascal, pensée 203
James Dillon - East 11th St NY 10003
Helmut Lachenmann - Schwankungen am Rand
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'These acts of keeping politics out of music, however, do not prevent musicology from being a political act . . .they assure that every apolitical act assumes a greater political immediacy' - Philip Bohlman, 'Musicology as a Political Act'
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Chris Newman - The reason I am unable to live in my country as a composer is a political one
Michael Finnissy - We'll get there someday
Those are both seriously good (and I mean 'seriously'). I'm also an admirer of My parents' generation thought War meant something. Some favourites of my own: Toovey - Smeared (mainly cos I suggested it  ) Anderson - Tiramisù (for the unexpected gay subtext) Christopher Trapani - Half of me is ocean, half of me is sky (with apologies to Wallace Stevens) Christopher Trapani - Canaries in the Morning, Balloons at Night (with more apologies to Wallace Stevens) Klarens Barlou - Im Januar am Nil (for its ability to trip me up every single time I try to say it) Roxy Music - In Every Dream Home a HeartacheWould also like to second xyzzzz__ on Strange Moments of Intimacy. |
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The city is a process which always veers away from the form envisaged and desired, ... whose revenge upon its architects and planners undoes every dream of mastery. It is [also] one of the sites where Dasein is assigned the impossible task of putting right what can never be put right. - Rob Lapsley
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James Dillon - East 11th St NY 10003
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« Reply #42 on: 12:21:05, 13-08-2007 » |
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From a dimly-remembered R3 broadcast, years ago, of new piano music from New Zealand:
On searching for a lost gerbil at dawn
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At every one of these [classical] concerts in England you will find rows of weary people who are there, not because they really like classical music, but because they think they ought to like it. (Shaw, Don Juan in Hell)
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Roxy Music - In Every Dream Home a Heartache
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Roxy Music - In Every Dream Home a Heartache
good lyrics too Not a bad tune either (at least, it suits BF's voice). |
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