Thu, 3 Jun 1999 20:11:43 -0700
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To link this and another thread:
Joseph Horowitz: Metamorphoses on a Bedtime Theme.
(For those who don't know it, this appeared on the second Hoffnung
Festival LP, its thesis being:
Mozart, Bach, Verdi (?)
Why didn't they realise?
Schoenberg, Stravinsky and others
Why didn't they open their eyes?
Whatever you sau about ITA [The Independent Television Authority
- tv commercials were only a few years old]
It pays to Advertise! [Well-known advertising slogan]
interstingly the variations are not on a musical theme but a lyrical one,
viz. "Sleep sweeter, Bournvita" this being the slogan of a chocalte-malt
type of bedtime drink.
There follow short pieces in the styles of Bach, Mozart, Verdi, Schoenberg
and Stravinsky.
The Schoenberg is a priceless piece of sprechgesang over Five orchestral
Pieces-style background:
The end of day
Is the beginning of night
You can't see nothing
Without a light
The Stravinsky is sort of Dumbarton Oak-neoclassical, although I noticed
with interest that the performance on the 1981 (i.e. after Igor had popped
his clogs) concert CD has a coda which is a setting of the text to Les
Augurs printaniers from The Rite. Works a treat too.
Deryk Barker
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