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Mike Leghorn wrote:
>Robert Peters wrote:
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>>Actually I think that a lot of Strausss and Orffs music is pretty hollow.
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>I consider Strauss' best tone poems to be works of towering genius: Don
>Juan, Til Eulenspiegel, Zarathustra, Ein Heldenleben, Alpine Symphony
>(and maybe Don Quixote). His accomplishments with orchestration are
>unique and unrivaled. This is anything but hollow.
You are entitled to your opinion. As I am to mine. I think Strauss
music is sound and fury, signifying very little. Yes, impressive
orchestration, but to no real end. Just bombastic fireworks with no real
message, especially Ein Heldenleben which is, in my eyes and ears,
downright pathetic. My opinion.
>Just because his music wasn't an expression of deep neurosis doesn't
>make it lack depth.
Oh, there is music which isnt an expression of deep neurosis and
nevertheless has depth. But actually I think that Strauss music is the
very apotheosis of neurotic music: narcisstic stuff full of misleading
bathos. My opinion.
>Schubert "Friendly"? I guess that's like me saying the universe is pink
>because I'm looking at the pink clothes that my daughter has on right
>now.
So what? Maybe Strauss is so unique and unrivaled in your eyes because
you want to see it like this. Like saying the universe is pink because....
You see, you do the thing you blame me for me. Maybe its just a matter
of taste. You see something in Strauss that I dont see and vice versa.
Pink universes...
Robert
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