A Guided Tour of Igor Stravinsky's L'histoire du soldat (1918)
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- Опубликовано: 28 ноя 2024
- This composition was created as a theatre piece, but is more often nowadays presented as a concert suite of nine movements.
I made an earlier video over this same piece, but was never happy with the recording I chose. This re-visiting of the material affords me an opportunity to present a gift to the musicians of OU's New Century Ensemble.
In this video, you will hear members of the Cleveland Orchestra, directed by Pierre Boulez.
I just stumbled across your channel randomly. What a pleasure to view and listen!
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Love your videos. So much helpful to me.
Real fun, thank you :)
My pleasure - glad you enjoyed it.
Gandalf?
Some have wondered.
This was a very nice way of explaining the piece! I love your phrasing of it as a "guided tour"; I wish there were more breakdowns of music in this fashion. I wanted to ask about your musical background; What instrument(s) do you play, if any? do you conduct? You are a very interesting person, I would love to hear more about your background. Truly the Bob Ross of music :)
Yamoto, I used to play, but no longer do. I was an oboist back in the day. I do occasionally conduct. Strangely enough, I have two master's degrees - one in oboe performance and one in composition - but I no longer do either of those things, and my doctorate is in conducting, but I don't do that with any regularity anymore. I've found the classroom mostly congenial, and spend my workdays there. For fun, there's always music and cats, and I'm lucky to have plenty of both in my life.
I'm glad you're enjoying these videos. I enjoy making them, and it certainly adds to my enjoyment when I learn that they've had an impact on others.
What a GIFT Stravinsky was....creative genius with a polymath knowledge and fluency in such an array of musical styles.....centuries of music passing through the prisma of his genius mind. Amazing analysis and guide, as always, of this delightful work
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When there's no strong unifying power like God or Idealism or morality to give meaning to music (with the brutality and absurd nature of war), music will start to deconstruct like this wonderful piece, though wonderful in other ways. I love this piece and the Rite of Spring but sadly I am never able to adore them from my heart since I am a strong meaning, system-seeking person, which makes me like an old-fashioned one. Hopefully our world will not be like the one Stravinsky in.
Sadly, it appears to be the world we have - which is one more reason we need the voices of artists like Stravinsky, Picasso, Yeats, Bukowski, Crumb, Heller, and so many others, now more than ever.