RE: GG & analytic/creative tasks

[james langager <jlangage@d.umn.edu>]

On Sun, 4 May 1997, Dave Budde wrote:

> I second the suggestion about discovering Rachmaninoff.  And don't 

forget the Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini.  

--yes, very much. a friend of mine is playing the pag. variations..

Simply the most beautiful music ever written.  With regard to Mao

zart not being a story teller, what about the Operas?  

------well, yes. an opera would be a story...


And the Requiem?  


------I can't see the Requiem as so much a story. it's very repetetive, i
think. It does seem, like other mozzy, to have sequential order. 

Associating Mozart to just the Concerti or Sonatas would be too limiting.  


------agreed, very much. and his later works, too, are much more epic.

And what about Tchaikowski.  Lots of good stories from him.  

------agreed. he is very simple. very much so.

> 
> With respect to listening to Gould while doing other things, I find his Beethoven 5th Piano Concerto to be quite inspiring.  
> 
> Dave
> 
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> From: 	james langager
> Sent: 	Saturday, May 03, 1997 9:22 PM
> To: 	Alun Severn
> Cc: 	f_minor@email.rutgers.edu
> Subject: 	Re: GG & analytic/creative tasks
> 
> 
> I've been thinking about music in general a lot lately. I've noticed two
> general categories. the immediate aesthetics, and the story tellers. as in
> composers. the immediate aesthetics would be mainly classical people like
> mozart and schubert and so forth. and the story tellers would be the
> romantics and the contemporaries, like Rach and Chopin and prokofiev and
> whoever. many of them seem to fall right smack dab in the middle or to
> either side. the main idea, though is that some seem more ethereal. the
> don't show much emotion really, but one can start a mozart concerto from
> any where and it will be immediately pleasing, but Rach peices are like
> journies, and you have to start at the beginning. I can never concertrate
> on other tasks when listining to the "story tellers". mozart, however
> helps me to an extreme. when writing lit papers, I find myself formulating
> the coming paragraphs will writing any given sentence. If I ever listen to
> Rachmaninoff while doing homework or whatnot, I'll unconciously stop doing
> what I'm doing and listen to the music. I'll retain my attention around
> twenty minutes later. weird. if any of you haven't discovered Rach, you
> must.
> 
> my favorite piano concertos:
> 
> Rachmaninoff's second and third
> 
> Chopin's first and second. 
> 
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> 
> 			-Jon
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