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vandermolen

Quote from: Florestan on April 17, 2022, 04:45:49 AM
If that is her reaction to Myaskovsky or Vaughan Williams, I dread to imagine what would have happened had you been a Xenakis devotee.  :laugh:
Possibly Shostakovich, Allan Pettersson, Havergal Brian, Klaus Egge...who knows?
"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).

LKB

Quote from: vandermolen on April 17, 2022, 05:10:45 AM
Haha! I recall that Sibelius's long-suffering wife Aino once asked her husband when he would be home after arranging the latest drinking session with his friends, only to receive the response 'I'm a composer not a fortune teller'. They didn't speak for a long time after this.

I would have gotten on well with old Jean, l believe...
Mit Flügeln, die ich mir errungen...

Florestan

Quote from: vandermolen on April 17, 2022, 05:10:45 AM
Haha! I recall that Sibelius's long-suffering wife Aino once asked her husband when he would be home after arranging the latest drinking session with his friends, only to receive the response 'I'm a composer not a fortune teller'. They didn't speak for a long time after this.

Every kind of music is good, except the boring kind. — Rossini

vandermolen

"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).

Florestan

Quote from: vandermolen on April 18, 2022, 03:30:50 AM
That's a great painting of a drunken Sibelius and Kajanus  ;D

Apparently Merikanto was no match for them. :D
Every kind of music is good, except the boring kind. — Rossini

aligreto


vandermolen

"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).

Florestan

Every kind of music is good, except the boring kind. — Rossini