Twelve Tone Commercial

[Silk]

This is absolutely hilarious!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LACCAF04wSs

[Mirror Image]

Yes! Very funny. Of course, I love the music of Schoenberg and Berg. I still haven't quite warmed up to Webern yet.

[Szykneij]

Very amusing and well done!

The pistol shots match perfectly with the Stravinsky clip.

Got a chuckle from the virtuosity of the Berg violin concerto --

G-D-A-E   E-A-D-G

[kyjo]

Yes! Very funny. Of course, I love the music of Schoenberg and Berg. I'm still haven't quite warmed up to Webern yet.

Same here, John. But I do enjoy Webern's early works: the Brahmsian Passacaglia, the Straussian tone poem Im Sommerwind, and the Mahlerian Langsamer satz for string quartet (which has been arranged for string orchestra, as has Schoenberg's magnificent String Quartet no. 2). They aren't masterpieces like Schoenberg's early works are, though. I largely prefer Schoenberg's early orchestral works (Verklarte Nacht, Pelleas et Melisande, Gurreleider) to Richard Strauss' overblown symphonic poems, which are orchestral showpieces but not much else, IMO.

I see Schoenberg has kicked poor old Ralph out of the house

[Mirror Image]

Same here, John. But I do enjoy Webern's early works: the Brahmsian Passacaglia, the Straussian tone poem Im Sommerwind, and the Mahlerian Langsamer satz for string quartet (which has been arranged for string orchestra, as has Schoenberg's magnificent String Quartet no. 2). The aren't masterpieces like Schoenberg's early works are, though. I largely prefer Schoenberg's early orchestral works (Verklarte Nacht, Pelleas et Melisande, Gurreleider) to Richard Strauss' overblown symphonic poems, which are orchestral showpieces but not much else, IMO.

I see Schoenberg has kicked poor old Ralph out of the house

Yes, I do enjoy those Webern works especially Passacaglia, but I haven't warmed to his 12-tone music like I have Schoenberg and Berg. I suppose I still hear traces of Romanticism even in Schoenberg's and Berg's advanced works which I just don't hear in mature Webern. It took me several years to fully appreciate 12-tone music, but now I understand the invention and amount of labor it must have went into composing such complex music and yet this music, after several years of listening to it, retains an accessibility to it that I find refreshing. Schoenberg and Berg are about as far 'out there' musically I get but I come away from their music far more enriched every time I listen to their music.

And, yes, ol' Arnie doesn't have time for Ralph's stumbling around and mocking about like a 'sack of potatoes' as Gerald Finzi's son said of the way RVW sat in a chair in the BBC documentary The Passions Of Vaughan Williams.

[jochanaan]

I especially liked the quote "The greatest composers since Joachim Raff"!

[Sergeant Rock]

I've known this bit since the 70s. It was originally (the soundtrack, not the video) a parody produced by Cleveland's classical station, WCLV, during Matthias Bamert's time as assistant conductor of the Cleveland Orchestra. The narrator is Robert Conrad, well-known Cleveland radio personality and founder/owner of WCLV.

Sarge

[Dax]

David Shire - Theme for The Taking of Pelham 123

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kYR3lxQti4

[jut1972]

Quality!! Sums up my ill informed opinions nicely

But...

I've just spotted a major disagreement between MI and Kyjo! 

"Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music." - Sergei Rachmaninov

Vs.

"Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music."-Sergei Rachmaninoff

Uh oh!

[Mirror Image]

Quality!! Sums up my ill informed opinions nicely

But...

I've just spotted a major disagreement between MI and Kyjo! 

"Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music." - Sergei Rachmaninov

Vs.

"Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music."-Sergei Rachmaninoff

Uh oh!

Yeah, he's my twin. But even twins disagree from time to time.

[jut1972]

 

[Sergeant Rock]

I'm with kyjo: Rachmaninoff. That's the way the composer spelled it while in the West. That's the way it was spelled in his passport. That's the way it's spelled on his gravestone.



And most important: that's the way Wiki spells it 


Sarge

[Opus106]

And most important: that's the way Wiki spells it 


Sarge

I thought you were going to end that with "That's what M said."

[Sergeant Rock]

I thought you were going to end that with "That's what M said."

I thought about it but then I couldn't have ended my post with a joke. I  mean, one can't laugh about the Word of God without fear of retribution 


Sarge

[Opus106]

I thought about it but then I couldn't have ended my post with a joke. I  mean, one can't laugh about the Word of God without fear of retribution 

Sarge

Yet this is probably the only Garden of Eden from which God was banned.

[DavidW]

That was hilarious!

[springrite]

Yet this is probably the only Garden of Eden from which God was banned.

What can I say, it's a garden run by snakes. 

[Geo Dude]

I thought about it but then I couldn't have ended my post with a joke. I  mean, one can't laugh about the Word of God without fear of retribution 


Sarge

Fortunately, the type of retribution that deity offers is in the form of calling you a philistine.  And putting a bunch of umlauts into his post for you.

[lisa needs braces]

I remember that video from 5 years ago when Alex Ross of the New Yorker posted it on his blog. My goodness how the time flies.