Why exactly does a modernist, or postmodernist, or contemporary ‘hip’ work that rubs shoulders with pop music, not fit in a classical orchestral programme that also holds, say, a Tchaikovsky symphony and a Ravel concerto? Why do audiences, used to a very varied ‘classical repertoire’ that covers a stylistic palette from Haydn to Hindemith, up…
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UK Premiere of String Trio
On 23rd of October of this year, Sara Trickey (violin), Sarah-Jane Bradley (viola), Tim Lowe (cello) and John Lenehan (piano) – all members of the well-known British ensemble The Sound Collective, will present an interesting programme at London’s King’s Place, including a UK premiere: http://www.kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on/music/lcms-sound-collective-beethoven-string-trios-brahms-piano-quartets#.WAOYGPSX82w The ‘Trio for Strings’ is taking Viennese classicism as a…
Fruits of tradition
An interesting article in the Chronicle of Higher Education about the fruits of tradition, if correctly understood: http://www.chronicle.com/article/How-to-Think-Like-Shakespeare/237593 Quote: “You simply cannot transform tradition (a creative ideal) without first knowing it (a conserving ideal).” The article confirms the common sense insight that any achievement in any field is based upon mastering the rules by immersion…
Poetics of order
The well-known architect Leon Krier, the great inspirator and theorist of a new, humane architecture and urban planning, based upon an interpretation of classical architecture, has said: ‘Classical architecture is atemporal, like mathematics’: http://www.futuresymphony.org/conference-2014-videos/ Further elaborations by Krier makes clear, that this transcendental quality is due not to the invention of proportions, but of their…
Was ist Deutsch?
Man kann in eine Kultur, sei sie auch noch so lokal entstanden, hereinwachsen, absorbieren, sich mit den Kulturwerten identifizieren. Die verschiedene Europäische Kulturen, wie von den verschiedenen Nationen ‘vertreten’, sind nicht ganz abgeschlossene Bereiche, aber nur verschiedene Betonungen von irgendwelche Eigenschaften die alle zusammen Europäisch sind, in der Urzeit aus Griechisch/Römischer und Christlicher Zivilisation entstanden…