Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/12/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Stanislaw Stawowy jotted down the following: > Actually the problem is both Stravinsky and Prokofiev > wrote the funniest music i've heard ever. But > listening > this music requires a really big humour muscle :-) > > And Tchaikovsky sucks - THE most boring. Along > with Mozart and Wagner (his music is like > sauce without meat) > > And hands off from Bach!!!!!!!!!!! OK, I guess it's time to confess: I actually quite like Tchaikovsky. I'm not massively familiar with his stuff, but every once in a while that sweeping romanticism is quite OK. Good Sunday afternoon music. Stravinsky is great stuff, but not easy listening. I'll agree with the comment about humour. Mozart, I find, is remarkable. A great deal of his music is just absolutely perfect. Every note, every beat, every nuance is as it only could be. Within a single piece he constructs a framework and then plays within that framework to perfection. Bach doesn't tickle me: he's too intellectually clever. I'm sure he was brilliant, but I listen to music for aesthetic, emotive, and empathic reasons, not intellectual ones. Which, I guess, is why I can quite happily listen to Tchaikovsky and Mozart, but find Bach rather boring -- he adheres to rules too much, rather than playing with them. Britten is another of my favorites. Again, great sense of humour in some pieces. M. (not very well versed in classical music) - -- Martin Howard | "Go sell crazy somewhere else. We're Visiting Scholar, CSEL, OSU | all stocked up here!" email: howard.390@osu.edu | -- Melvin Udall www: http://mvhoward.i.am/ +---------------------------------------