Recommend Me Some 20th Century 'Pastoral' Symphonies

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Sergeant Rock

#20
April 10, 2012, 08:10:37 AM
Quote from: karlhenning on April 10, 2012, 08:08:19 AM
A Mass of Cowpat

Oh yes. Perhaps my favorite Delius work  :D

Sarge
the phone rings and somebody says,
"hey, they made a movie about
Mahler, you ought to go see it.
he was as f*cked-up as you are."
                               --Charles Bukowski, "Mahler"

Christo

#21
April 10, 2012, 08:44:46 AM
Not mine. He made a holy mess of it.  :-X
... music is not only an 'entertainment', nor a mere luxury, but a necessity of the spiritual if not of the physical life, an opening of those magic casements through which we can catch a glimpse of that country where ultimate reality will be found.    RVW, 1948

Lethevich

#22
April 10, 2012, 08:48:25 AM
The piece stinks, just accept it.
Peanut butter, flour and sugar do not make cookies. They make FIRE.

vandermolen

#23
April 10, 2012, 09:32:31 AM
Glazunov: Symphony 7

Note, I am not lowering myself by entering the Delius 'cowpat' distraction, which is just a load of old cr_p.  ;D
"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm" (Churchill).

'The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good' (Stanley Kubrick).

DieNacht

#24
April 10, 2012, 11:04:46 AM
pjme and christo mentioned a lot of what I thought of maybe replying, but a few more works a bit in the same vein: Holmboe´s 1st Symphony, Kodaly´s "Summer Evening" and V-W´s "Norfolk Rhapsodies" plus D´Indy´s "Jour d´Ete" (1905).

Lethevich

#25
April 10, 2012, 11:23:32 AM
Most of these recs are far too gripping to meet the thread's initial posted criterion :o
Peanut butter, flour and sugar do not make cookies. They make FIRE.

knight66

#26
April 10, 2012, 12:01:11 PM
Quote from: karlhenning on April 10, 2012, 08:08:19 AM
A Mass of Cowpat

How true, how true.

Mike
DavidW: Yeah Mike doesn't get angry, he gets even.
I wasted time: and time wasted me.

Papy Oli

#27
April 10, 2012, 12:06:44 PM
Quote from: vandermolen on April 10, 2012, 09:32:31 AM
Note, I am not lowering myself by entering the Delius 'cowpat' distraction, which is just a load of old cr_p.  ;D

the moo, the merrier though...



*already gone*
Olivier

knight66

#28
April 10, 2012, 12:55:55 PM
 Paris: the song of a great cowpat.

Mike
DavidW: Yeah Mike doesn't get angry, he gets even.
I wasted time: and time wasted me.

snyprrr

#29
April 11, 2012, 07:14:35 AM
Quote from: Lethevich on April 10, 2012, 11:23:32 AM
Most of these recs are far too gripping to meet the thread's initial posted criterion :o

Morton Feldman: For Cowpat

:P

Karl Henning

#30
April 11, 2012, 07:16:12 AM
The Cowpat in My Life

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Karl Henning, Ph.D.
Composer & Clarinetist
Boston MA
http://www.karlhenning.com/
[Matisse] was interested neither in fending off opposition,
nor in competing for the favor of wayward friends.
His only competition was with himself. — Françoise Gilot

DieNacht

#31
April 11, 2012, 09:46:15 AM Last Edit: April 11, 2012, 09:50:31 AM by DieNacht
The Cowpat Chapel.

Satie: Musique d´Ameublement de Bouse de Vache 

chasmaniac

#32
April 11, 2012, 09:48:59 AM
Five Cowpats.
If I have exhausted the justifications, I have reached bedrock and my spade is turned. Then I am inclined to say: "This is simply what I do."  --Wittgenstein, PI §217

chasmaniac

#33
April 11, 2012, 10:00:03 AM
Almost forgot: Why Cowpats?
If I have exhausted the justifications, I have reached bedrock and my spade is turned. Then I am inclined to say: "This is simply what I do."  --Wittgenstein, PI §217

Karl Henning

#34
April 11, 2012, 10:03:23 AM
Good!
Karl Henning, Ph.D.
Composer & Clarinetist
Boston MA
http://www.karlhenning.com/
[Matisse] was interested neither in fending off opposition,
nor in competing for the favor of wayward friends.
His only competition was with himself. — Françoise Gilot

listener

#35
April 11, 2012, 12:29:28 PM
returning to the OP with a couple of suites:
LARSSON Pastoral Suite op. 40    de FRUMERIE Pastoral Suite for flute and orch. op. 18b
"Keep your hand on the throttle and your eye on the rail as you walk through life's pathway."

J.Z. Herrenberg

#36
April 12, 2012, 12:43:19 AM
Poor Delius.


:'( ;D
Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything. -- Plato

Sergeant Rock

#37
April 12, 2012, 03:02:56 AM
Quote from: chasmaniac on April 11, 2012, 10:00:03 AM
Almost forgot: Why Cowpats?

It's a reference to comments made by composers against Vaughan Williams Pastoral Symphony and similar music. It was either  Peter Warlock or Constant Lambert who said the Pastoral Symphony is like a cow staring over a fence. Copland thought VW's Fifth was like staring at a cow for 45 minutes. And Elisabeth Lutyens called English pastoral music "cow-pat music."

Sarge
the phone rings and somebody says,
"hey, they made a movie about
Mahler, you ought to go see it.
he was as f*cked-up as you are."
                               --Charles Bukowski, "Mahler"

Karl Henning

#38
April 12, 2012, 03:16:42 AM
Sarge, that was the beautiful ambiguity of the post! It is also a play in the running game, an allusion to Feldman's Why Patterns?
Karl Henning, Ph.D.
Composer & Clarinetist
Boston MA
http://www.karlhenning.com/
[Matisse] was interested neither in fending off opposition,
nor in competing for the favor of wayward friends.
His only competition was with himself. — Françoise Gilot

Karl Henning

#39
April 12, 2012, 03:18:27 AM
Quote from: J.Z. Herrenberg on April 12, 2012, 12:43:19 AM
Poor Delius.


:'( ;D

I know! I've never (or, not yet) warmed to his work; but times like this, you want to rub the chap's shoulder....
Karl Henning, Ph.D.
Composer & Clarinetist
Boston MA
http://www.karlhenning.com/
[Matisse] was interested neither in fending off opposition,
nor in competing for the favor of wayward friends.
His only competition was with himself. — Françoise Gilot
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