I hope nobody thinks I was "trashing Brahms". On the contrary, I have great respect for his music. My point was that there are people who are so focused on one genre of music that they seem to disdain all others. I am definitely not one of those people. Thanks, Tom Date sent: Tue, 6 Aug 2013 16:20:51 -0700 To: [email protected] From: howard posner <[email protected]> Subject: [LUTE] Re: colonel public Lute awareness
On Aug 5, 2013, at 5:51 PM, Edward Mast <[email protected]> wrote: > Disdain for either early or later music is foolish. Duke Ellington > is reputed to have said: "There are only two kinds of music; good > music and bad music". And since no two persons will ever agree on which is which in every case, this might be the most useless comment ever made on any subject. While I think Ellington was (reputedly) talking gibberish, I second Edward's point. In particular, I don't know why anyone who's heard three minutes of his music would want to trash Brahms -- who, by the way, was one of the great early music pioneers of his age. He was a collector of pre-Baroque music, directed public performances of music by Gabrieli and Schütz with his choir, and published an edition of Couperin. He was also a genius, whose music has benefited, I think, from the attentions of HIP performers. If you're a diehard HIP/period instrument person (and hey, who isn't?), there are a good number of HIP Brahms recordings: for starters, the symphonies and German Requiem by Norrington and Gardiner, the serenades by Spering/Capella Augustina, the string sextets by Monica Huggett's Hausmusik, the piano music by Hardy Rittner and Jan Michels, and the violin sonatas and horn trio by Isabelle and Alexander Melnikov. -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html Tom Draughon Heartistry Music http://www.heartistrymusic.com/artists/tom.html 714 9th Avenue West Ashland, WI 54806 715-682-9362
