tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8957911.post5004502482542373190..comments2024-03-15T21:51:30.609-07:00Comments on Iron Tongue of Midnight: Keeping Score on KQEDLisa Hirschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14014924958428072675noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8957911.post-54914753943171404812009-09-28T10:39:50.657-07:002009-09-28T10:39:50.657-07:00Lenny was a master of hyperbole. I doubt that MTT ...Lenny was a master of hyperbole. I doubt that MTT would go that far, and he might even have something interesting to add about, oh, for instance, the composer's life, times, goals and methods. <br /><br />And what the heck is a "moderately important" composer?Joe Barronhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16638252347181688694noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8957911.post-8285487865261458632009-09-24T18:05:14.027-07:002009-09-24T18:05:14.027-07:00Lenny B once claimed that Ives was the Washington,...Lenny B once claimed that Ives was the Washington, Jefferson, and Lincoln of American music.<br /><br />What, all three?<br /><br />Such hyperbole is enough evangelizing to last the average moderately important composer, like Ives, several critical generations.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8957911.post-9002361777989215752009-09-24T13:57:41.879-07:002009-09-24T13:57:41.879-07:00I for one would d be interested to hear what MTT h...I for one would d be interested to hear what MTT has to say about the Holidays Symphony. He's always been sympathetic to Ives, his recordings of the symphonic music are outstanding, and I think the composer can stand a little evangelizing.Joe Barronhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16638252347181688694noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8957911.post-64040083850375296302009-09-23T22:47:55.446-07:002009-09-23T22:47:55.446-07:00If I were young and innocent, and thought music we...If I were young and innocent, and thought music were supposed to be listened to the way MTT describes it, I'd never listen to it again.<br /><br />Fortunately my exposure to music was late enough, and my reaction to it strong enough, and little enough of what I read about it was like that. But crap like that in school permanently alienated me from great literature.<br /><br />That's why I don't think it's harmless.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8957911.post-3139133558928436492009-09-23T16:15:05.946-07:002009-09-23T16:15:05.946-07:00To Kate Mayer: no spam allowed, and that's wha...To Kate Mayer: no spam allowed, and that's what your comment was. It's been removed now.Lisa Hirschhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14014924958428072675noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8957911.post-20026506594465042362009-09-23T14:48:27.005-07:002009-09-23T14:48:27.005-07:00I like Keeping Score, which feels like a spiritual...I like <i>Keeping Score</i>, which feels like a spiritual descendant of Leonard Bernstein's programs to evangelize classical music.<br /><br />What needs to be learned about this kind of music is how to hear its story. It's an impressionistic artform, so the story won't be exactly the same from listener to listener, but it is there, and in the greatest works it is worth hearing again and again.<br /><br />So it doesn't bug me if MTT's impressions of the Tchaik 4 strike me as weird. He's showing how the music contains a story, and I think listeners will hear their own story soon enough.Michael Walshhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08515767073956451871noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8957911.post-21512565396017740252009-09-22T17:01:01.213-07:002009-09-22T17:01:01.213-07:00If MTT talks about these works the way he talked a...If MTT talks about these works the way he talked about Tchaikovsky's Fourth (the only one of the previous series I saw), then the fewer people who see it, the better.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8957911.post-67951442568231466102009-09-22T14:47:08.296-07:002009-09-22T14:47:08.296-07:00not to mention schoolchildren. . ..not to mention schoolchildren. . ..Patrick J. Vazhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09279528648512493917noreply@blogger.com