tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8957911.post2781743888414811555..comments2024-03-27T21:41:50.122-07:00Comments on Iron Tongue of Midnight: L'Oiseau de FeuLisa Hirschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14014924958428072675noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8957911.post-79750180142722113052009-06-17T17:36:45.155-07:002009-06-17T17:36:45.155-07:00Could it be the Chinese March from The Song of the...Could it be the Chinese March from The Song of the Nightingale?Robert F. Joneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18217369785155750115noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8957911.post-35936389683582859512009-06-17T17:21:14.182-07:002009-06-17T17:21:14.182-07:00Not all of Sacre is irregular. What we know: it...Not all of <i>Sacre</i> is irregular. What we know: it's something written by the date of the film, it involves at least one mallet instrument, and it contains at least 15 or so seconds of music in straight duple meter.Lisa Hirschhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14014924958428072675noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8957911.post-90371530061626057582009-06-17T14:55:19.653-07:002009-06-17T14:55:19.653-07:00There's something you don't see every day:...There's something you don't see every day: a composer conducting a work he'd written over 50 years earlier. I wonder if, by this point, he felt about it as Tolkien once said of The Lord of the Rings: as if it had been written by a distant relative.<br /><br />He seems very pleased by the sound at the very end, doesn't he?<br /><br />As for the second work, I can't tell, but it can't be Le Sacre, can it? Far too regular a rhythm.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com