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From: mmar@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP (Mitchell Marks)
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Subject: Re: tone poems
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Date: Mon, 26-Aug-85 03:08:58 EDT
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Paul Kolodner brings up Bruckner in this context.  I'm always surprised to
remember that he was a religious man, and that people claim to hear deep
religious sentiment in his music.  I always hear an element of cruelty and
indifference.  The scherzo mvt in the Ninth Symphony brings to mind a nasty
rampaging god (or just physical giant), stomping everything flat, including
those jaunty picnickers (the bucolic sections).  Similarly for the scherzo
of the Seventh.  (I listen to it anyway -- it's offputting but fascinating).
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            -- Mitch Marks @ UChicago 
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