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| I like hearing brand new music, so starting this season and tonight's concert with a brand new piece by Paul Dresher seemed like a grand idea. This work, _Crazy Eights & Fractured Symmetries_, seemed very different to me than the _Concerto for Quadrachord & Orchestra_ that opened the 2012 season [xref](:2012:2012-10:2012-10-04). Today's piece seemed to bear more than a bit of influence from Philip Glass, seeing as the majority of the work was filled with arpeggios (the crazy eights?) that zigged and zagged this way and that across the orchestral landscape. I'd certainly like to hear the work again, especially if it were taken up by a crack ensemble determined to polish it up to a fierce shine. | I like hearing brand new music, so starting this season and tonight's concert with a brand new piece by Paul Dresher seemed like a grand idea. This work, _Crazy Eights & Fractured Symmetries_, seemed very different to me than the _Concerto for Quadrachord & Orchestra_ that opened the 2012 season [xref](:2012:2012-10:2012-10-04), or _Cornucopia_, performed in 2010 [xref](:2010:2010-02:2010-02-11). Today's piece seemed to bear more than a bit of influence from Philip Glass, seeing as the majority of the work was filled with arpeggios (the crazy eights?) that zigged and zagged this way and that across the orchestral landscape. I'd certainly like to hear the work again, especially if it were taken up by a crack ensemble determined to polish it up to a fierce shine. |
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| Tonight's showcase piece, the Korngold violin concerto, was certainly lush and romantic -- fitting the advertised bill of fare -- and while I enjoyed it, I could also see why some critics decried it for being too melodramatic or schmaltzy. I suppose it comes down to whether you think that the emotions being conveyed are genuine or merely affectations. I'll give Korngold the benefit of the doubt and presume that he was being sweet rather than saccharine. I don't know that I'd care to listen to the piece again soon, but I'd prefer it to most of the atonal modern music that critics and composers of the 20th Century seemed to champion instead. | Tonight's showcase piece, the Korngold violin concerto, was certainly lush and romantic -- fitting the advertised bill of fare -- and while I enjoyed it, I could also see why some critics decried it for being too melodramatic or schmaltzy. I suppose it comes down to whether you think that the emotions being conveyed are genuine or merely affectations. I'll give Korngold the benefit of the doubt and presume that he was being sweet rather than saccharine. I don't know that I'd care to listen to the piece again soon, but I'd prefer it to most of the atonal modern music that critics and composers of the 20th Century seemed to champion instead. |
