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Philip Glass Symphony No.10

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« on: October 29, 2013, 02:16:05 pm »

In response...particularly to Alistair :)

I felt it necessary to confess(confession, as they say, is good for the soul) to liking some Glass in order to establish that I am not an inveterate critic of the man's music. I have found some Glass pleasant and attractive-although, for the life of me, I cannot remember which ;D

Secondly, I suffer from that sad, lamentable and pathetic afflication: completist syndrome ;D If I first buy a composer's symphony I feel duty bound/compelled to add his other essays in that form. I could attempt to justify this by arguing that I am attempting to build a further and more complete picture of his musical output.......but that would be sophistry ::)

Glass's vast 9th Symphony seemed to me to have some slight merit and that led me to the downlod of the 10th. Within a few minutes I became appalled at the work's utter banality. Even by the standards of Glass's other music-which is obviously not rated very highly ;D ;D by others-the 10th is unbelievably dreadful. What struck me so forcibly was that the work sounded so totally empty of anything other than a tired rehash. Rather than greet the work with applause and cheers-as did the promenaders- I wanted to shout "stop...enough, give up".

dyn's link to the review- I had read this before I listened to the piece but I had hoped that I might disagree ::) I note however the number of favourable comments on the symphony outnumber those who disliked it. There is clearly a market even for "substandard Glass" ;D ::) The man has enough money to have his own record label and to issue recordings of most of his music(at inflated prices).

No....of course, you do NOT have to listen to it if you feel that you already know just how bad the symphony actually is :) It makes the Khachacturian 3rd seem like a masterpiece....and for me that is really saying something ;D ;D
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