Comments on: Upcoming Schuller Performances Provoke His Ruminations on 12-Tone Music http://classical-scene.com/2009/11/25/upcoming-schuller-performances-provoke-his-ruminations-on-12-tone-music/ a virtual journal and blog of the classical music scene in Boston Tue, 22 May 2012 14:09:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: The Boston Musical Intelligencer » NESE and Cortese: From Tour de Force to Didactic http://classical-scene.com/2009/11/25/upcoming-schuller-performances-provoke-his-ruminations-on-12-tone-music/comment-page-1/#comment-1041 The Boston Musical Intelligencer » NESE and Cortese: From Tour de Force to Didactic Tue, 08 Dec 2009 17:26:18 +0000 http://classical-scene.com/?p=2045#comment-1041 [...] “I’ve noticed over some sixty or seventy years of conducting,” writes Gunther Schuller, “that the interval of the minor 2nd (semitone) and the major 7th (its octave inversion) are the most hated intervals.” He further describes his short Adagio for strings: Ode to the minor 2nd and major 7th as purposely didactic. It was. His interview is here. [...] [...] “I’ve noticed over some sixty or seventy years of conducting,” writes Gunther Schuller, “that the interval of the minor 2nd (semitone) and the major 7th (its octave inversion) are the most hated intervals.” He further describes his short Adagio for strings: Ode to the minor 2nd and major 7th as purposely didactic. It was. His interview is here. [...]

]]> By: Bettina A. Norton http://classical-scene.com/2009/11/25/upcoming-schuller-performances-provoke-his-ruminations-on-12-tone-music/comment-page-1/#comment-972 Bettina A. Norton Sat, 28 Nov 2009 18:55:00 +0000 http://classical-scene.com/?p=2045#comment-972 You are right. He said quartet, but he meant sonatas. He knows this, we know this, and we should have caught it. We didn't. So, thank you! Our hope with this, and subsequent excerpts of this interview, is to keep the conversational tone. I do hope that doesn't mean we miss more obvious errors. You are right. He said quartet, but he meant sonatas. He knows this, we know this, and we should have caught it. We didn’t. So, thank you!

Our hope with this, and subsequent excerpts of this interview, is to keep the conversational tone. I do hope that doesn’t mean we miss more obvious errors.

]]> By: Laurence Glavin http://classical-scene.com/2009/11/25/upcoming-schuller-performances-provoke-his-ruminations-on-12-tone-music/comment-page-1/#comment-969 Laurence Glavin Fri, 27 Nov 2009 19:27:15 +0000 http://classical-scene.com/?p=2045#comment-969 Beethoven actually wrote SIXTEEN, not 32 String Quartets (plus the String Quartet Movement Op 133 called the "Grosse Fugue" and an arrangment of one of his piano sonatas for SQ). Beethoven actually wrote SIXTEEN, not 32 String Quartets (plus the String Quartet Movement Op 133 called the “Grosse Fugue” and an arrangment of one of his piano sonatas for SQ).

]]>