🎼 #ComposerOfTheDay: 10 Mar
Arthur Honegger (1892–1955) – Swiss composer linked with Les Six. Pacific 231 is a thrilling orchestral portrait of a steam locomotive.

🎧 Listen: Pacific 231
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#ArthurHonegger #20thCenturyMusic

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Babbitt claims that the gulf between "contemporary serious music" and the sensibilities of what one might term the common listener

>> is a result of a half-century of revolution in musical thought, a
revolution whose nature and consequences can be compared only with, and in many respects […]

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...Milton Babbitt's notorious 1958 High Fidelity article "Who Cares if You Listen?"

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There Babbitt likens his academic work in music to the scientific research taking place in other departments […]

The Cambridge Companion to Arvo Part, edited by Andrew Shenton, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2014 New pb 30$

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#splendorsolisbooks #modernmusic #20thcenturymusic #arvopart #arvopärt #usa

Benjamin Britten, Serenade for Tenor, Horn, and Strings, Op.31.
#ClassicalMusic #20thCenturyMusic

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Samuel Barber, Piano Sonata
#ClassicalMusic #20thCenturyMusic
#Piano #Pianists #AmericanMusic

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Copland, Piano Variations.
#Piano #ClassicalMusic #20thCenturyMusic #AmericanMusic

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Walter Piston, Symphony No. 2
#ClassicalMusic #20thCenturyMusic #AmericanMusic

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William Schuman, Symphony for Strings (Symphony No. 5).
#20thCenturyMusic #ClassicalMusic

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Copland, Sextet (1937).
#20thCenturyMusic #ClassicalMusic

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For #QueerTuesday
Francis Jean Marcel Poulenc (7 January 1899 – 30 January 1963):
Sinfonietta, FP 141 (1947)
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#ClassicalMusic #20thCenturyMusic #FrenchComposer

For #QueerTuesday
Henriëtte Bosmans (1895-1952):
Poème for cello & orchestra (1923)
youtu.be/9mUF4n6uBuY
#ClassicalMusic #20thCenturyMusic #DutchComposer

The diverse composers who didn’t make the classical canon Escaping the news on the Today programme recently, like many others, I switched over to Radio 3. On air was “The Bee-Sting”, an unpublished song by

I’m reading Kate Molleson’s Sound Within Sound (2022), which explores “the radical composers in the 20th Century.”

With Tidal, I can listen to them while I read.

Recommended!

#KateMolleson #20thCenturyMusic #SoundWithinSound

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This could be the start of a beautiful relationship, gorgeous music. Where next with AC, anyone?
#classicalsky #nowplaying #classicalvinyl #20thcenturymusic #avantgardemusic

Ingolf Dahl (1912 – 1970):
Aria Sinfonica (1965)
youtu.be/xo_txCcbexI
#QueerTuesday #ClassicalMusic #ModernnClassicalMusic #20thCenturyMusic

David Del Tredici (1937 – 2023):
Tattoo (1986)
youtu.be/PerhPGn_w2Q
#QueerTuesday #ClassicalMusic #ModernClassicalMusic #20thCenturyMusic

Claude Vivier (1948 – 1983):
Siddhartha (for orchestra) (1976)
youtu.be/7Cy4UCBq1lU
#QueerTuesday #ClassicalMusic #ModernClassicalMusic #20thCenturyMusic

Michael Finnissy (b. 1946):
Red Earth, for large orchestra (1988)
youtu.be/C7XHDQjUg5U
#QueerTuesday #ClassicalMusic #ModernClassicalMusic #20thCenturyMusic

For #QueerTuesday
Henry Cowell (1897-1965):
Symphony No. 5 (1948)
youtu.be/aO_1-bOdq6c
#ClassicalMusic #ModernClassicalMusic #20thCenturyMusic

8/n
Alan Hovhaness (1911-2000):
Symphony No. 36 for Flute & Orchestra, Op. 312 (1978)
youtu.be/8pJFnS6-GHc
#FluteFriday #20thCenturyMusic

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Flint Juventino Beppe (*1973):
Flute Mystery Op. 66
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#FluteFriday #20thCenturyMusic

Just read this on Wikipedia's page about Franz Schreker: " ...although broadly tonal, is inflected with chromatic and polytonal passages."

I misread "inflected" as "infected". Lol.

#classicalmusic #composer #20thcenturymusic

( #JCKaelin here: one of the greatest moments of #20thCenturyMusic history!)
#OTD #TDIH #December11, 2012: #DOTD: #RIP #RaviShankar #RobindroShaunkorChowdhury #IndianAmericans #Sitarists #Virtuosos #Composers #IndianClassicalMusic
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