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This new musical language is marvelous for the expression of horror, desolation, despair, and other standard 20th-century emotions. It is less appropriate for pastoral scenes or nostalgic longing. For the expression of these states, a more conservative, traditional idiom is needed, and Aaron Copland, whose Appalachian Spring was the...
Never bats an eyelash, old Charles, and he doesn't through Hard Times, either, except for a flicker of weird warmth that runs across his eyes at the beginning of the film. You aren't quite sure you've seen it, this tiny dilation, but in the first few moments...
Schoenberg began composing in an atmosphere of fin-de-siecle decadence with the ponderously rich chromatic harmonies of the post-Wagnerian idiom. He matured as a composer at a time when tonality, the structure which had supported music for over 300 years, was finally sinking under the bloated burden of...
"Sixty percent of reggae is frustration of oppressed people," Jimmy Cliff told Andrew Kopkind of The Real Paper in 1973. "Forty percent is fantasy." Fantasy prevailed last Saturday night; little frustration showed. "We come from Jamaica with the message of peace and love," Jimmy Cliff announced during the concert, but...
Moving ahead about a century in musical literature, the orchestra turned to Bela Bartok's Rumanian Dances. Fascinated by the folk music of eastern Europe, the composer combed the countryside of Hungary, Rumania and Slovakia recording the songs he heard. Not content with imitating the melodies in his own music...