tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8514964.post112360384648162614..comments2024-03-13T05:54:04.900-04:00Comments on [listen]: The Times Are Never So BadAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12939881701345686354noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8514964.post-1124736927760143292005-08-22T14:55:00.000-04:002005-08-22T14:55:00.000-04:00I think a visual and/or narrative element can help...I think a visual and/or narrative element can help a lot of listeners follow music they are not familiar with--regardless of the style.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12939881701345686354noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8514964.post-1124431427899620572005-08-19T02:03:00.000-04:002005-08-19T02:03:00.000-04:00Hi, found your blog via the Carnvial of Music.Re: ...Hi, found your blog via the Carnvial of Music.<BR/><BR/>Re: Schoenberg. I'm an unabashed Second Viennese School fan. What puzzles me is that people find most of Schoenberg's music really difficult, but I hear stuff like that in film scores all the time and people don't flee from the movie theatre when a 12-note chord is played by an orchestra as the background music to a murder scene or whatever. I wonder if that's the key, the visual trumping the audial, making that grinding dissonance more palatable. <BR/><BR/>I've now heard it so many times (300-400) that <I>Moses und Aron</I> sounds *almost* like Puccini to me. Hey, I said *almost*! :-) I'll never forget going to a performance of it at the City Opera and listening to the comments on the way out: "Well, there's no tunes, but it was very gripping on stage". Yep.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com