schoenberg

[Jim Morrison <jim_morrison@sprynet.com>]

damn you brad,

you brought up Schoenberg on the list didn't you?

I've been up all night listening to the recordings I have, beginning with
the gould solo piano pieces.  Riveting, intense, focused, rich and rewarding
music that repays repeated listenings, yet is very direct and communicative,
the type of music that has a lasting effect on you after you've turned the
music off.  It has a way of altering the way you think, unsettling you,
making you feel not quite your usual self.  Perhaps _awsome_ is a fitting
word here.  An encounter with what my mind tells me is greatness.

Schoenberg was well aware, so I read, of how differently his music treated
time, how it at times compressed and at other times expanded from the
usually classical norm, and I for one am profoundly moved by some of his
compositions.  Gould and Boulez and the New Vienna String Quartet have
definitely put me in a different time zone tonight.

Next thing you know I'll go through my Ligeti collection and I'll be writing
from the moon.

Jim