Listening Project
Wed, Nov 21 2012, 3:08PM
Perhaps this might be a fun and useful way of getting acquainted with new music. The
idea:
Everyone who wants to join selects one piece so that we end up with a list of works.
Then, every week, one piece is selected, starting at the top of the list. Everyone
gives this piece a thorough listen and posts his/her opinions, findings, and/or
criticism of the piece in this topic. After one week, the next piece on the
list is selected, and so on until we are through and can start over again.
Wed, Nov 21 2012, 3:37PM
#2
RE: Listening Project
Sorry about that - I've fixed the formatting!
Rachel
Thu, Nov 22 2012, 9:14AM
#3
RE: Listening Project
Thank you, Rachel.
Some additional remarks:
-try to pick out pieces that are not overly familiar, the idea is to dicover new music after all :-)
-prefarably, choose a work that can be found on youtube/vimeo, spotify or somesuch free service.
So, who's in?
Thu, Nov 22 2012, 12:05PM
#4
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You're all wasting your time. Whatever you pick, Parla will already have listened to it.
Thu, Nov 22 2012, 5:30PM
#5
RE: Listening Project
Haha, challenge accepted!
Based on your description, at least WE can get to know a lot of new music through HIM though.
Thu, Nov 22 2012, 6:30PM
#6
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I'll nominate Hermann Koppel's 3rd symphony. It's available on the Naxos Music Library and here:
Fri, Nov 23 2012, 12:18AM
#7
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To push the boundaries, what about "Memorial" by Michael Nyman for piece number two. He wrote it as a memorial to the victims of the Heysel Stadium disaster in 1985 and the music was subsequently borrowed by Peter Greenaway in his film "The Cook, the Thief, his Wife and her Lover" starring Michael Gambon and Helen Mirren.
Pulsating, hypnotic English minimalism which I really enjoy. It is on youtube in various guises.
Good idea for a post, brumas.
Graham
Sat, Nov 24 2012, 3:42PM
#8
RE: Listening Project
My nomination will be Matthijs Vermeulen - Symphony no.5 'les lendemains chantants'.
Shall we say we start each week on sunday? Then it's
Week 01, 25-11-2012: Hermann Koppel - Symphony no. 3 (BazzaReiley)
Week 02: 02-12-2012: Michael Nymann - Memorial (Graham J)
Week 03: 09-12-2012: Matthijs Vermeulen - Symphony no. 5 (brumas est mort)
And anyone who wants to join just quotes this post and adds his/her nomination underneath the list.
Fri, Nov 23 2012, 3:56PM
#9
RE: Listening Project
Since you started with this marginal repertory, what about Vejvanovsky's Ave sanctissimum Redemptoris or Juliusz Wolfsohn's Hebrew Suite op.8?
I'm not joining in; I'm just wondering how far on the edge of the repertory we may go and who is going to (be in a position to) respond.
Anyway, good luck.
Parla
Fri, Nov 23 2012, 5:46PM
#10
RE: Listening Project
Well, there's no need to traverse into the outer reaches of obscurity, it's just to make sure no one will add pieces like the Beethoven Violin concerto or the Schubert's Forelle quintet...
Fri, Nov 23 2012, 6:04PM
#11
RE: Listening Project
The Master has spoken!
Fri, Nov 23 2012, 6:38PM
#12
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But you want only 'new' music, not unknown old or ancient music?
Fri, Nov 23 2012, 7:29PM
#13
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No, 'new' as in 'as-yet unknown to the listener'. Any era qualifies!
Fri, Nov 23 2012, 8:56PM
#14
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...I'm just wondering how far on the edge of the repertory we may go and who is going to (be in a position to) respond.
As long as it is on Youtube (etc), I think anything can be nominated. If you want to nominate something that isn't on YouTube, then upload it yourself.
Fri, Nov 23 2012, 10:45PM
#15
RE: Listening Project
Brumas, do you think there are many people in this forum who actually know that well Schubert's Forelle Quintet? And does a work like the "Thirteen Variations", D.576, by Schubert fit in?
If Youtube is going to be the only or main source of "the listening project", then, you may be faced with certain limitations as for the "listening standards", back-up information for the work and the performers etc.
Anyway, let's see...
Parla
Hmm, don't know what happened in that first post, and for some reason the 'edit' button is not there. Could a moderator please remove all the gobbledygook at the top of the post?
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