I'm listening to a Susanne Kessel piano recording Californian Concert: Music of European Immigrants and their American Contemporaries. The first track is Igor Stravinsky's Tango. I'll probably jinx myself but I actually like this short work. Is the tango a chance for the composer to be more emotional and sentimental? Or is it just more conventional and hence easier for my ear to assimilate?
For the record, I'll also admit Stravinsky's orchestral arrangement of the Star-Spangled Banner is pleasing and the album cover particularly so. (Click on the Amazon graphic to better see it).
So stravinsky, greatest american composer or no?
heh.
Posted by: M. Keiser | January 13, 2007 at 01:29 PM
What he wrote in the US is superior to what Schoenberg wrote in the US. I'm not yet ready to extrapolate beyond that, though...
Posted by: Robert Gable | January 13, 2007 at 05:32 PM
piano? listening to piano is one of my relaxing moments...
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