In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Darcy James Argue writes: >Just taking a little straw poll here: what do listers consider the best >pieces of music to come out of the 1920's? Genre is unimportant -- go >ahead and nominate Tin Pan Alley songs and Jelly Roll Morton pieces >alongside serial works, if you like.
I see that Guy Hayden has got ahead of me with "Show Boat". I agree that the Stravinsky Octet is a candidate, though I had given first place to "Les Noces". Why didn't I think of Sibelius Symphony 7? My immediate reaction was, "Of course!" Even more striking than the Bliss, among English works, IMO, is Peter Warlock's setting of W B Yeats, "The Curlew". "According to Grove Concise, "Turangalila" was written in 1948. It would have been outstanding in any other decade, of course. However, the first work I thought of (I hope to generate a few "Of course!"s among the rest of you) was Berg's "Wozzeck", even though I am more into orchestral and chamber instrumental works than those for the stage. A slightly more tentative proposal: the Ravel Sonata for Violin and Piano. -- Ken Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web site: http://www.mooremusic.org.uk/ I reject emails > 100k automatically: warn me beforehand if you want to send one _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
