Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/01/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]From: Pitak Chenkosol <pitakc@ee.pdx.edu> > Dear Bob, > > I like the Roumanian Folk Dance, BB76 for orchestra. Actually that is > what I am listening while I am typing this. A friend of mine who was > a former lead clarinetist of the Oregon Youth Philharmonic Orchestra > loaned me a tape. Bartok? Yes, count me in. > > Regards, > > PC > > > > I just got out of the darkroom and I am sitting here listening to Bartok. I > > wonder how many LUGGERS could accept music from such an abstract composer? Bartok? Abstract? Not at all. Having borrowed heavily from folksongs of his native Hungary, his compositions are hardly abstract, albeit atonality and dissonants may startle many audience. I do love his compositions, though. Having played many pieces from Mikrokosmos when I started learning piano at 4, I have had constant affinity to his pieces. Several years ago, while in NY, my piano duo partner and I hired a couple of doctrate music students at Juilliard to perform the said composer's Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussions. What a rush it was. To make this more or less on topic, I will mention that I often hum sections of music while working in the darkroom printing negatives exposed using my Leica.