Ian Crisp wrote:
>As previously announced, I propose that this time we vote for the most
>definitively twentieth-century pieces of classical music.
An impossible task.
Stravinsky: Rite of Spring. Is there a single list this wouldn't be on?
Seminal.
Debussy: La Mer (Impressionism. So often I find myself comparing some
20th century work to Debussy, and I'd say this is his best konwn work.)
Mahler: Symphony 9 (To me the link between the 19th and 20th centuries)
Vaughan-Williams: Symphony 5 (There was a lot of quiet music written this
century, and this epitomizes it as well as any.)
Schoenberg-Five Pieces for Orchestra or Pierrot Lunaire (Impossible to
avoid Schoenberg.)
Yes, I'm orchestrally oriented.
Roger Hecht