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[HIPster]

Bravo!

Congratulations Jens.

Added to my wishlist. 

[jlaurson]

Bravo!

Congratulations Jens.

Added to my wishlist. 

That's very flattering, indeed. My contributions are mainly Braunfels, Saygun, Schoeck, Mittler, Zeisl and Shostakovich -- and re-doing or updating all the record recommendations. And trying to take the sting out of the anti-Schoenberg diatribe. :-)

[Karl Henning]

. . . And trying to take the sting out of the anti-Schoenberg diatribe. :-)

Rut-roh!

[aligreto]

Myself. Wohoo. My* first book has arrived from the printers!




(Co-authored, rather than translated [done] or solely authored [to do list])

Congratulations indeed. That is a fine achievement and you must be very proud 

[Bogey]

Just downloaded the sample.

Did not enjoy the premise after I started so went to my next one:

[André]

That's very flattering, indeed. My contributions are mainly Braunfels, Saygun, Schoeck, Mittler, Zeisl and Shostakovich -- and re-doing or updating all the record recommendations. And trying to take the sting out of the anti-Schoenberg diatribe. :-)

Bravo Jens!

[Florestan]

Saygun

Please name the one European composer he most closely resembles. TIA.

[Kontrapunctus]

She is one of my favorite crime fiction writers. Her novels are gritty, and at times, not for the faint of heart.

[jlaurson]

Myself. Wohoo. My* first book has arrived from the printers!




(Co-authored, rather than translated [done] or solely authored [to do list])

That's very flattering, indeed. My contributions are mainly Braunfels, Saygun, Schoeck, Mittler, Zeisl and Shostakovich -- and re-doing or updating all the record recommendations. And trying to take the sting out of the anti-Schoenberg diatribe. :-)

Please name the one European composer he most closely resembles. TIA.

Is that a joke? Or a test?  [see attached]

I'm not sure, because superficially, the answer is very, very obvious. But of course looking at it just a little beneath the surface, there are tremendous differences. Still, if you like one you'll like the other.

[Florestan]

Is that a joke? Or a test? 

Neither. 

I have never heard one note of Saygun´s music and I just wanted to know what to expect. I like Bartok so I´ll try Saygun too. Thanks.

[Ken B]

The Invention of Science
D Wooton

A new, rather scholarly, history of the scientific revolution. A corrective to Kuhn.

[jlaurson]

Neither. 

I have never heard one note of Saygun´s music and I just wanted to know what to expect. I like Bartok so I´ll try Saygun too. Thanks.

then you will LOVE the string quartets!

[Daverz]

Neither. 

I have never heard one note of Saygun´s music and I just wanted to know what to expect. I like Bartok so I´ll try Saygun too. Thanks.

I also hear hints of  Kodaly and Shostakovich.

[kishnevi]

Picked this up at the public library this afternoon

[jlaurson]

I also hear hints of  Kodaly and Shostakovich.

I think there's that and perhaps more than just hints. You might also say Enescu is in that group...

[Bogey]

Picked this up at the public library this afternoon

A review when you get done would be appreciated.

[kishnevi]

A review when you get done would be appreciated.

Already done: a slim book, consisting of an unfinished prose version of the Kullervo story with outbreaks of verse sort of in the style of the original, two versions of a talk about the Kalevala in general,  again not quite complete, aimed at people not familiar with the Kalevala, and much editorial writing on the subject of this story as precursor to the Turin story of the Similarrion, incidental influences on  Elvish language, etc.

The story breaks off just after the suicide of Kullervo's sister, but covers the entire back story of Kullervo's parentage, how his uncle killed his father (the editor claims this was the origin of the Hamlet story) and brought him up as a servant, tried to kill him off, discovers Kullervo is lousy at every task set him,sells him off as a slave to Ilmarinen,  whose wife tries to kill him, and whom (the wife, that is) he does kill, then goes off to kill his uncle and as collateral damage kills his mother and two oldest siblings (nasty people)---although the last part is reduced to a plot outline attached to the end of the fragment.  Tolkien keeps only some of the names found in the Kalevala.

The story was probably written 1914, the talk somewhat later.

[Parsifal]

The Door, a novel by Magda Szabó:

[asin] 1590177711[/asin]

Hot damn. I'm almost to the end and really want to shut my office door and read. What starts as a character study of a young woman and her housekeeper builds in tension until it goes to some really crazy places. Szabó's control of her narrative, and her language, is really breathtaking. One of those books where I feel confident that the author is taking me somewhere great.

Now reading this book for the second time. Something special.

[Bogey]

Already done: a slim book, consisting of an unfinished prose version of the Kullervo story with outbreaks of verse sort of in the style of the original, two versions of a talk about the Kalevala in general,  again not quite complete, aimed at people not familiar with the Kalevala, and much editorial writing on the subject of this story as precursor to the Turin story of the Similarrion, incidental influences on  Elvish language, etc.

The story breaks off just after the suicide of Kullervo's sister, but covers the entire back story of Kullervo's parentage, how his uncle killed his father (the editor claims this was the origin of the Hamlet story) and brought him up as a servant, tried to kill him off, discovers Kullervo is lousy at every task set him,sells him off as a slave to Ilmarinen,  whose wife tries to kill him, and whom (the wife, that is) he does kill, then goes off to kill his uncle and as collateral damage kills his mother and two oldest siblings (nasty people)---although the last part is reduced to a plot outline attached to the end of the fragment.  Tolkien keeps only some of the names found in the Kalevala.

The story was probably written 1914, the talk somewhat later.

Thank you.

[Jaakko Keskinen]

Almost finished with Wilhelm Meister's apprenticeship but I think I'll leave further commenting to future, when I have also read Wilhelm Meister's journeyman years. I cannot find that book in finnish translation anywhere, hell, it's possible it has never even been translated in finnish, so I'll probably buy an english translation from somewhere, perhaps that excellent one by Carlyle, and get on with it.