Shostakovich 9th vs. Prokofiev 7th.

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Shostakovich - Symphony No. 9
6 (25%)
Prokofiev - Symphony No. 7
11 (45.8%)
This is cruel and unusual!
5 (20.8%)
I am a strange person and do not like either.
2 (8.3%)

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Brian

May 28, 2014, 04:35:58 AM
Sorry, folks  :(

mc ukrneal

#1
May 28, 2014, 04:41:16 AM
I can't even remember the last time I heard the 9th. 10 years ago maybe? I bet that means Sarge looooves it! :)
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Karl Henning

#2
May 28, 2014, 04:52:28 AM
I went with cruel and unusual (in loco banana) . . . but then when I saw the results, I nearly repented not voting for the Op.131 to balance the vote someone else cast for the Op.70  0:)
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

Brahmsian

#3
May 28, 2014, 04:54:16 AM
Quote from: mc ukrneal on May 28, 2014, 04:41:16 AM
I can't even remember the last time I heard the 9th. 10 years ago maybe? I bet that means Sarge looooves it! :)

He does, indeed.  He said it is his most listened to Shosty work.  :D

Karl Henning

#4
May 28, 2014, 04:55:23 AM
Well, there is a poignancy to the c# minor Symphony, which will sort well with its being trounced in this poll  ;)
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

Sergeant Rock

#5
May 28, 2014, 04:56:02 AM
Quote from: mc ukrneal on May 28, 2014, 04:41:16 AM
I can't even remember the last time I heard the 9th. 10 years ago maybe? I bet that means Sarge looooves it! :)

As I said in another thread, it's the Shostakovich work I listen to more than any other. I do love it unreservedly.

But I can't vote other than the banana option. Prok 7 is my favorite of his. I really cannot choose between them.

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"

EigenUser

#6
May 28, 2014, 04:56:58 AM
Quote from: ChamberNut on May 28, 2014, 04:54:16 AM
He does, indeed.  He said it is his most listened to Shosty work.  :D
As it should be!

I voted for Shosty 9. Haven't warmed to any Prok yet and I already have a lot on my musical plate.
Beethoven's Op. 133 -- A fugue so bad that even Beethoven himself called it "Grosse".

EigenUser

#7
May 28, 2014, 04:57:37 AM
Quote from: Sergeant Rock on May 28, 2014, 04:56:02 AM
As I said in another thread, it's the Shostakovich work I listen to more than any other. I do love it unreservedly.

But I can't vote other than the banana option. Prok 7 is my favorite of his. I really cannot choose between them.

Sarge
Traitor! >:(
Beethoven's Op. 133 -- A fugue so bad that even Beethoven himself called it "Grosse".

amw

#8
May 28, 2014, 05:01:21 AM
Prokofiev by a quantity. 2nd mvt of the Shostakovich is not really my thing.

mc ukrneal

#9
May 28, 2014, 05:03:07 AM
Quote from: Sergeant Rock on May 28, 2014, 04:56:02 AM
As I said in another thread, it's the Shostakovich work I listen to more than any other. I do love it unreservedly.

But I can't vote other than the banana option. Prok 7 is my favorite of his. I really cannot choose between them.

Sarge
Ah. I wasn't following that one (and of course just teasing).
Be kind to your fellow posters!!

Sergeant Rock

#10
May 28, 2014, 05:03:24 AM
Quote from: EigenUser on May 28, 2014, 04:57:37 AM
Traitor! >:(

;D :D ;D  True, my loyalties are equally divided here...but just listen to the opening of op.131 and tell me that theme isn't heartbreakingly gorgeous! No way could I vote against that.

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"

not edward

#11
May 28, 2014, 05:14:08 AM
I vote for Sibelius 6.
"I don't at all mind actively disliking a piece of contemporary music, but in order to feel happy about it I must consciously understand why I dislike it. Otherwise it remains in my mind as unfinished business."
-- Aaron Copland, The Pleasures of Music

Karl Henning

#12
May 28, 2014, 05:16:15 AM
Quote from: Sergeant Rock on May 28, 2014, 04:56:02 AM
But I can't vote other than the banana option. Prok 7 is my favorite of his. I really cannot choose between them.

My brother!
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

Sergeant Rock

#13
May 28, 2014, 05:29:17 AM Last Edit: May 28, 2014, 05:36:26 AM by Sergeant Rock
Quote from: karlhenning on May 28, 2014, 05:16:15 AM
My brother!

8)

Quote from: karlhenning on May 28, 2014, 04:55:23 AM
Well, there is a poignancy to the c# minor Symphony

Indeed...


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"

Cato

#14
May 28, 2014, 05:31:48 AM
Older members know that I have a deaf spot, which most and perhaps all of them consider to be hideous.

Prokofiev is one of the greatest composers ever: The Flaming Angel and its cousin the Third Symphony, the Second, the Sixth, Chout, all are great works.

But I cannot abide the Seventh Symphony!  I alternate between hysterical laughter  :o :o :o :o :o :o at how awful the structure, the transitions, etc. all are, and throwing-a-brick-at-my-own-grandmother anger  ??? ??? ??? ??? ???

People have given me therapy to cure me of my deaf spot. And they have tried to reason with me.  And they have slapped me around to make me come to my senses!

I will listen to it again: I do have a copy, but have not heard it in years, because the last time I played it, my wife called the emergency squad from the local asylum:

White Jacket Boy I: What seems to be his problem?
Mrs. Cato: He was talked into listening to Prokofiev's Seventh Symphony!
White Jacket Boy II: Don't worry, ma'am: we've seen this before.  You'd think the government would do something about that CD!
"Meet Miss Ruth Sherwood, from Columbus, Ohio, the Middle of the Universe!"

- Brian Aherne introducing Rosalind Russell in  My Sister Eileen (1942)

North Star

#15
May 28, 2014, 06:24:46 AM
Quote from: Cato on May 28, 2014, 05:31:48 AMWhite Jacket Boy II: Don't worry, ma'am: we've seen this before.  You'd think the government would do something about that CD!
Just goes to show what the average white jacket boys know about music - there are certainly several recordings of it.  8)

Voted the Proky because it looked like it could need some help, otherwise I'd taken the in loco arieras option, too.   ;D
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Sergeant Rock

#16
May 28, 2014, 06:29:27 AM
Quote from: North Star on May 28, 2014, 06:24:46 AM
Voted the Proky because it looked like it could need some help

Mrs. Rock thanks you.

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"

Brian

#17
May 28, 2014, 06:40:15 AM
Quote from: edward on May 28, 2014, 05:14:08 AM
I vote for Sibelius 6.

It's interesting that I picked these two symphonies because they seem to share an uncommon spark of inspiration (brevity, ambivalence, pared-down size/scale), underneath all their obvious differences, and then you manage to find a third that fits that description too. Although the two Russian symphonies have more humor.

Mrs. Rock

#18
May 28, 2014, 07:46:16 AM
Prokofiev 7th.  Sgt Rock made me do it.  I swear.....

Brahmsian

#19
May 28, 2014, 07:53:30 AM
Quote from: Mrs. Rock on May 28, 2014, 07:46:16 AM
Prokofiev 7th.  Sgt Rock made me do it.  I swear.....

Hello Mrs. Rock, and Fafner.  ;D  I hear you are a big fan of Dvorak's 4th symphony, like me?  :)
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