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In Reply to: RE: Baroque Music is certainly an acquired taste... posted by Ivan303 on March 30, 2014 at 19:12:58
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Tim Bailey
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Took me decades to warm to Mahler. =:-0
Now I've collected his complete symphonies by any number of conductors.
Same for modern guys like Schnittke, Berg or even Schoenberg. Sorry, still can't fall in love with Webern!
And yes, a lot of the stuff above is acquired taste.
We were lent a large very tall tracker-action chamber organ, which was rolled slowly into the nave, this was while the big main organ was being rebuilt.
And suddenly, Newcastle had a Baroque Society, and we performed a lot with them down in the nave playing harpsichords and recorders, etc. Early 1960s, this was.
So English & other baroque church music was part of the ouvre we sang, and then performing concerts with diverse instruments.
So much for Australia being a cultural desert back then. Let alone now.
I don't go and switch off the system when Mahler or Bruckner are on, and I have tried them on and off over many years. I wonder mostly when thay are going to get to the point, and lose interest.
I really don't get the need for music to be unpleasant and atonal. I shudder when I or other singers fail to pitch correctly, and I guess that's why I dislike most atonal music. Noting that correct pitch has to be adjusted up or down at some points for a lot of vocal music, ie not what's written - as otherwise it sounds ugly.
I much prefer the early romantics and then back from there - right back to the earliest pieces of notated music - IIRC that's the 6th and 7th centuries CE.
Thank god for printing, electrical recording, decent microphones, and decent storage media.
I record acoustic concerts for Artsound FM her in Canberra.
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Tim Bailey
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