I love the Wound Dresser, Douglas, though most of his work leaves me
cold after the initial flash - a bit like certain drugs I shall not
mention for fear of influencing the impressionable young on this list
(if there be any such...) I dig the 3rd, in a Polish version rather than
the glassily polished one on Nonesuch, and the Lerchenmusik for instance
(maybe what you mean by stuff for small ensembles?)
Funny that at least you haven't yet mentioned (here I go, I know I
promised to shut up) Murray Schafer - it's been very difficult in this
part of the world to hear his work, but I am finally getting down to his
string quartets - magnificent so far. The Tuning of the World (I have it
in German translation) should be obligatory reading. (There's a website
at which you can download a pdf with his complete extended commentaries
on his own music, including some funny asides on the perversities of
concert performance; unfortunately I cannot find it again - if you or
anyone can't either, I'll backchannel it as an attachment.)
mj
Douglas Barbour wrote:
> And none of us has mentioned John Adams yet (maybe no one else likes
> his stuff). But asaide from the opera etc, there's his setting of The
> Wound Dresser by Whitman.
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> I certainly like his work, that which I have.
>
> And Gorecki, including the earlier farther out stuff for small
> ensembles... (are we allowed to like the bestsellers like his 3rd?)
>
> Doug
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> Words cling to other words
> As we have seen, although even these are
> Migratory and the forgotten shows through as correction.
> This noun has been defunct for centuries.
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