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From: robison@eosp1.UUCP (Tobias D. Robison)
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Subject: Re: Re: Modern Music; Berg and lightbulbs
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Date: Thu, 31-May-84 18:22:39 EDT
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Posted: Thu May 31 18:22:39 1984
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References:

Bob Fishell may have had good reason to compare Berg's violin concerto
to breaking lightbulbs -- did he hear a good performance of it?

The Berg concerto provides a good case study in recordings of how
performances of a work can improve.  There are atrocious recordings
(particularly older ones) in which the violin soloist gets a few beats
separated from the orchestra, and in which melodic lines or rhythms that
move among instruments just get butchered.

A bad perofrmance sounds very "modern" -- very jangly, very atonal, very
strangely rhythmic.  A good performance (of Wozzeck or Lulu too) sounds
lusciously Romantic.
					- Toby Robison (not Robinson!)
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