American jazz eclipsed Western art music in the decades 1950s and to the end of the 1960s. This composer is one of the best exceptions. Stockhausen became the interesting one to read about, while few honestly enjoyed the listening experience. When composition became over rando and mostly noise instead of organized sounds, it was an academic obligation to say the rest of us were too old. Nonesense proliferated. Why should anyone feel obliged to drink the myriad philosophies of white male eurocrats? It's not our job. Kidding yourselves for sake of going along. Get some courage and express your real dissatisfactions.
I think it's amazing that Birtwistle at the beginning of the 1970s basically wrote this tone poem for orchestra when the idea of writing a tone poem then was almost unheard of. What an original!
Your comment fits a lot of Western music in 1950 - 1970. No wonder academia melted down in 1970s from sheer lack of irrelevance cramming BS down throats and insisting we are not smart enough. But this composer is an exception to the worthlessness that was proliferating in the name of intellectual progress.
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R.I.P. Sir Harrison Birtwistle.
sodelicious..................
(R.i.P) you wonderful conquering human being
quite good...
Farewell to one of the greats.
A wonderfully mysterious beginning. Sounds a bit like parts of Atom Heart Mother form Pink Floyd which was written at the same time.
Music does not exist in a vacuum.
I had the same impression without reading your remraket👍
American jazz eclipsed Western art music in the decades 1950s and to the end of the 1960s. This composer is one of the best exceptions. Stockhausen became the interesting one to read about, while few honestly enjoyed the listening experience. When composition became over rando and mostly noise instead of organized sounds, it was an academic obligation to say the rest of us were too old. Nonesense proliferated. Why should anyone feel obliged to drink the myriad philosophies of white male eurocrats? It's not our job. Kidding yourselves for sake of going along. Get some courage and express your real dissatisfactions.
I think it's amazing that Birtwistle at the beginning of the 1970s basically wrote this tone poem for orchestra when the idea of writing a tone poem then was almost unheard of. What an original!
He had the courage to reject the rando Cage and Karlheinz nonsense then proliferating. No wonder that all academia lost credibility in the 1970s.
Imagine, 25 full minutes of soul and ear crushing agony! Yes, Hell exists!
It was the 70s. . . people were playing with a new toy.
it's cheery whistle along stuff
Seems you left your comment on the wrong clip, this piece was marvelously enjoyable.
Your comment fits a lot of Western music in 1950 - 1970. No wonder academia melted down in 1970s from sheer lack of irrelevance cramming BS down throats and insisting we are not smart enough. But this composer is an exception to the worthlessness that was proliferating in the name of intellectual progress.