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[Rowy]

I find this forum a bit confusing. It takes some time to get used to the nerdy approach, although it might just be me. I'm probably not the brightest bulb in this esteemed company, and I hardly dare to complain because Kristofer looks a lot like my old professor, and I do not want to be put in the corridor to contemplate my sins. So I guess I need to think a bit harder. Or, as someone once told me: No one promised you this would be easy.

Well, at least it will keep the riffraff out.

 

[Kristofer Emerig]

I won't bother quoting Rossini here, as we're all familiar the jibes. Wagner's prowess was immense, but the sheer scope, depth, and mass of his work can be an effort to digest and understand at times. Nothing wrong with that, mind you.

 

[David]

FWIW, Mike, I have a modernist friend who certainly seems to respond to some Ferneyhough. Despite being in some ways diametrically opposite in musical tastes, we share a love of Weinberg and some Shostakovich -- and he even likes quite a bit of my music which is hard to credit. He has at least expanded my musical horizons in some directions - Sciarrino is one example.

[Rowy]

I don't think your music is hard to credit. I listened to “Spring Sextet” on your playlist and it reminded me of the way some artists paint, with short brushstrokes. Would you call your music impressionistic? Or programmatic? Perhaps both?

[David]

impressionistic no, in the sense of influenced by Debussy or the like. Programmatic very often. But structurally usually based on classical principles though often much modified and never in an academic way.

[Mike Hewer]

Sciarrino is someone I have a passing interest in. He is very original that's for sure and what I have heard is fascinating. There just isn't time for me to write for myself and then listen to everything I've saved to 'watch later' in the youtube app, but a few of his works are pending.

[Marylyn]

Is that the Ferneyhough disco thing?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScxXYjgf3PU

Jeez, sorry. It's put the whole video up I wanted just the link. Most Ferneyhough enthusiasts of which I'm not one will have seen this.

[Mike Hewer]

LOL, that's fun Marylyn. I wonder if the man himself has heard that. He acknowledges that his music is not for the masses but I can imagine a drug fuelled rave partaking in a mass freaking out to this.

[David]

well, well -- just shows that with a bit of imagination, a Ferneyhough string quartet can indeed be entertaining