Snippitts of Illusions

I like Twentieth century art music. It speaks to me. I love particularly turn of the century stuff through the first five decades. Stravinsky was pure genius. He was the master of the period. There's also Hindemith and Bartok. They wrote music that was on the edge of accesible. Most people won't "get it" but many will. I love these three because of what they did to the orchestra. They tore it open. They made it explode with sounds never heard before. I love it! Then there's the three. Mostly infamous names; Schoenberg, Webern, and Berg. They are not accessible. They do not lend themselves to any accessibility to mass consumption. I love each though, for different reasons. I love Schoenbergs music because of the naive meloncholy it seems to portray. Schoenberg wanted his music to catch on and become popular. It didn't. I never will. I like Webern for his mathmatical precision. He caculated the hell out of his pieces. They are like musical equations, his pieces. Beautiful because of the design. Berg, his musics different. He didn't try to force the new way of writing. He just did it. Used it as a tool to achieve his goal. His compositions seem the most natural of the three. I think they probably are. He created one of the most disturbingly beautiful operas written during the twentieth century. Also one of the most difficult to perform.

posted by F.G. Shaw @ 4:10 AM