Daily Telegraph correspondent, and archetypal Young Fogey, Damian Thompson has a piece today featuring - amongst other things, including the cliches of Irish female politicians - his recommendation for
The Worst Piece of Classical Music Ever Written".
Sensing Mr Thompson's antipathy to experiment, would it be, perhaps, some atonal miasma? An aleatoric outpouring? Or some minimalist claptrap?
No, it's none of these - but in fact a woefully tonal lump of drivel called THE PEACEMAKERS, by our old friend Karl Jenkins - a man who shares a surname and reputation with "opera singer" Katherine Jenkins.
If you can't be bothered to trawl through the piece then
here is a link to a short documentary film about Jenkins's piece in all its woeful wretchedness.
I have to admit (well, no, I don't actually
have to, of course but, since little harm would seem to emerge from doing so, I will anyway) that I've occasionally (in the worst of my idlest moments) wondered whether these two Jenkinses were kin in any way other than merely by coincidental surname. That said (and back to the topic itself), although I've not trawled (and indeed cannot be bothered to trawl) through all the responses to this piece of puff, such of them as I did skim-read seemed mostly to be about the remainder of the "article" rather than about the part of it that purports to devote itself to "The Worst Piece of Classical Music Ever Written". As to that, I can comment only that I hope that no one thinks, having read in the thread topic contribution list "
The Worst Piece of Classical Music Ever Written by ahinton" that I've already written it (said piece, that is, not the "article" under a Damianic pseudonym)...
Incidentally, your "link to a short documentary film about Jenkins's piece in all its woeful wretchedness" does not seem to work - perhaps fortuitously; anyway, as the old adage runs, "blessed are the pisstakers, for they shall be called the..." - er - um - sorry, I seem (as Marc-André Hamelin once said of Philip Glass), to have run out of a lack of ideas...
