From: "Christopher Stetson" <[email protected]>
Yes, well, I suspect you know the composer and cultural context much
better than I do.
I don't. I left the country at the time of general great misery which also
came in the package with great level of cultural idealism. The current place
has little to do with my memories of it. Now apparently the cynicism has the
complete hegemony there. I am very happy that Ukraine is no longer part of
that culture.
By the way, could you translate the text in the little bubble that
comes up early in the video?
Just the russophone title and credits.
Thanks, and keep playing (lute!)
Will do.
RT
Chris.
>>> "Roman Turovsky" <[email protected]> 10/5/2009 9:32 AM >>>
Maybe I should translate his "prose" sometime, for our delectation. It
is
written in normal sentences, but the content is even worse than in his
"music".
RT
----- Original Message -----
From: <[email protected]>
To: "Roman Turovsky" <[email protected]>; "David Rastall"
<[email protected]>
Cc: "Lutelist" <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, October 05, 2009 8:09 AM
Subject: Re: [LUTE] Re: The reason we play lutes
David,
That's the biggest problem of all with this sort of stuff - dead
seriousness. I forced myself to listen to all of this and found that
there
were actually a few interesting moments buried in there between vast
canyons
of superfluousness. Unfortunately the composer obviously took himself
so
seriously that he seems to believe that we're going to be so impressed
by
his command of erudite compositional techniques that we'll feel honored
to
absorb anything he casts our way - even 7 minutes of noises. No doubt
the
composer would be happy to lecture us about the mind-boggling array of
chance operations, algorithmic constructs or complex pre-compositional
grids
he used to generate the sonic events of "Manifest." Now, don't we feel
stupid?
Chris
--- On Sun, 10/4/09, David Rastall <[email protected]> wrote:
> From: David Rastall <[email protected]>
> Subject: [LUTE] Re: The reason we play lutes
> To: "Roman Turovsky" <[email protected]>
> Cc: "Lutelist" <[email protected]>
> Date: Sunday, October 4, 2009, 10:25 PM
> On Oct 4, 2009, at 3:11 PM, Roman
> Turovsky wrote:
>
> > EM revival in general was a reaction to this type of
> (neo)modernism.
>
> In that context, anything is possible. I knew a
> college professor
> back in the day who was a composer. He called his
> work "radical-neo-
> post-diatonicism." The weird thing was that he was
> deadly serious
> about it. That's really how he wanted to be
> known! I have enough
> trouble with Charles Mouton, without having to contend with
> neo-styro-
> HIP.
>
> Best,
>
> David Rastall
> [email protected]
> www.rastallmusic.com
>
>
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