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Jocelyn Wang wrote:
>I'm not the biggest fan of Hindemith, either, but, yes, he has composed
>many works worth performing. We have presented his works a number of
>times. I would venture to say that the closed-minded reaction you
>described was a case of Hindemith was being found guilty by association--
>not because he composed atonal works (he didn't), but because of when he
>lived. He's not the only composer of the past 80 years to have experienced
>such reluctance because so many, rightly or wrongly (but understandably),
>have had so many unpleasant experiences from atonal works, which are often
>associated with being "modern."
He can be so dreary.
My trumpet playing daughter, 16, brought home a Hindemith piece today
in which she is soloist. She does not like the piece at all. "Give it
a chance," I suggested. We'll see. I have a soft spot for Hindemith
because he wrote the textbook upon which my high school music theory class
was based, and I consider that course to have been the most useful one I
had in all of high school. I still remember a lot of it all these years
on!
Mitch Friedfeld
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