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Roth Family Foundation
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- Dedication
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- Preface
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1 Et in Arcadia Ego -
2 Only Time Will Cover the Taint -
3 “Nationalism” -
4 Why Do They All Hate Horowitz? -
5 Optimism amid the Rubble -
6 A Survivor from the Teutonic Train Wreck -
7 Does Nature Call the Tune? -
8 Two Stabs at the Universe -
9 In Search of the “Good” Hindemith Legacy -
10 Six limes Sixa -
11 A Beethoven Season? -
12 Dispelling the Contagious Wagnerian Mist -
13 How Talented Composers Become Useless -
14 Making a Stand against Sterility -
15 A Sturdy Musical Bridge to the Twenty-first Century -
16 Calling All Pundits -
17 In The Rake's Progress, Love Conquers (Almost) All -
18 Markevitch as Icarus -
19 Let's Rescue Poor Schumann from His Rescuers -
20 Early Music -
21 Bartók and Stravinsky -
22 Wagner's Antichrist Crashes a Pagan Party -
23 A Surrealist Composer Comes to the Rescue of Modernism -
24 Corraling a Herd of Musical Mavericks -
25 Can We Give Poor Orff a Pass at Last? -
26 The Danger of Music and the Case for Control -
27 Ezra Pound -
28 Underneath the Dissonance Beat a Brahmsian Heart -
29 Enter Boris Goudenow, Just 295 Years Late -
30 The First Modernist -
31 The Dark Side of the Moon -
32 Of Kings and Divas -
33 The Golden Age of Kitsch -
34 No Ear for Music -
35 Sacred Entertainments -
36 The Poietic Fallacy -
37 The Musical Mystique -
38 Revising Revision -
39 Back to Whom? -
40 She Do the Ring in Different Voices -
41 Stravinsky and Us -
42 Setting Limits - Index
Making a Stand against Sterility
Making a Stand against Sterility
This chapter focuses on the new Transfiguration CD performed by the Smithsonian Chamber Players and conducted by the cellist Kenneth Slowik. Slowik supplements his own performance of the slow movement from Mahler's Fifth Symphony with an excerpt from Willem Mengelberg's 1926 Concertgebouw recording along with another one performed by Bruno Walter and the Vienna Philharmonic. He has also reprinted a few lines of incontestably hideous doggerel that Mengelberg inscribed in his conducting score for the Adagietto. The chapter also criticises his performance of Mahler's 1898 string-orchestra arrangement of Beethoven's Quartet in F minor in the CD by calling it a bloated “modern” reading which fails to convey the expressive content of the music.
Keywords: Transfiguration, Kenneth Slowik, Smithsonian Chamber Players, Willem Mengelberg, Bruno Walter, Vienna Philharmonic
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- Title Pages
-
Roth Family Foundation
- [UNTITLED]
- Dedication
- [UNTITLED]
- Preface
-
1 Et in Arcadia Ego -
2 Only Time Will Cover the Taint -
3 “Nationalism” -
4 Why Do They All Hate Horowitz? -
5 Optimism amid the Rubble -
6 A Survivor from the Teutonic Train Wreck -
7 Does Nature Call the Tune? -
8 Two Stabs at the Universe -
9 In Search of the “Good” Hindemith Legacy -
10 Six limes Sixa -
11 A Beethoven Season? -
12 Dispelling the Contagious Wagnerian Mist -
13 How Talented Composers Become Useless -
14 Making a Stand against Sterility -
15 A Sturdy Musical Bridge to the Twenty-first Century -
16 Calling All Pundits -
17 In The Rake's Progress, Love Conquers (Almost) All -
18 Markevitch as Icarus -
19 Let's Rescue Poor Schumann from His Rescuers -
20 Early Music -
21 Bartók and Stravinsky -
22 Wagner's Antichrist Crashes a Pagan Party -
23 A Surrealist Composer Comes to the Rescue of Modernism -
24 Corraling a Herd of Musical Mavericks -
25 Can We Give Poor Orff a Pass at Last? -
26 The Danger of Music and the Case for Control -
27 Ezra Pound -
28 Underneath the Dissonance Beat a Brahmsian Heart -
29 Enter Boris Goudenow, Just 295 Years Late -
30 The First Modernist -
31 The Dark Side of the Moon -
32 Of Kings and Divas -
33 The Golden Age of Kitsch -
34 No Ear for Music -
35 Sacred Entertainments -
36 The Poietic Fallacy -
37 The Musical Mystique -
38 Revising Revision -
39 Back to Whom? -
40 She Do the Ring in Different Voices -
41 Stravinsky and Us -
42 Setting Limits - Index
