"a"
- The Feast of Love
- The River
"other"
- Pilgrims and Pioneers. Sonata Da Chiesa. Stabat Mater. String Quartet No. 1. String Quartet No. 2. Symphony No. 2. Symphony No. 3. Symphony on a Hymn Tune.
Although I proposed to actually listen to new music, today it's back to the works of Virgil Thomson.
Pilgrims, Symphony No. 2 and Symphony on a Hymn Tune are all too much Americana and/or lightness. Maybe I should have instead continued with the overly serious Max Richter from earlier in the day as apparently The River fulfilled my wholesomeness quota.
Symphony No. 3 is a mildly interesting orchestration of Thomson's String Quartet No. 2, and for some reason more captivating than the original. I wasn't expecting that.
I've got a links post re: Feast of Love.
- lala: max richter. james sedares conducting. leonard slatkin conducting symphony no. 2.
- last.fm: james sedaris conducting. Note that Thomson has a surprisingly low number of listeners on last.fm.
- amazon: chamber works. james sedares conducting. the complete film scores.
Isn't the Sonata Da Chiesa a wonderful and odd little piece? I think that it, with the Second Symphony (with all its droll dead ends), Four Saints, and the score to The Plough that Broke the Plains are strong pieces.
Posted by: Daniel Wolf | August 02, 2008 at 03:16 AM
http://www.brooklynvegan.com/archives/2008/08/an_arts_institu.html
we went to Poisson Rouge to hear Max Richter and came away amazed!! by the opening set by Bruce Brubaker. Brubaker played piano pieces by Phil Glass and and Alvan Curran -- he called that "extreme piano." It ROCKED. I never heard anybody play the piano with that much intennsity and feeling.
I think Poisson R is going to reveal a lot of amazing musical secrets...
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