shamus
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« on: December 15, 2016, 07:21:45 pm » |
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Since I am not sure how bravely I would have stood up to fight fascism (may have to learn that soon here in good old USA) I try not to judge too harshly composers who seemed to survive but also to some extent collaborate with authoritarian governments. Kind of a double-edged sword perhaps, but some of the music is beautiful enough on its own (Trapp, Butting, et al). I remember enjoying very much the music of the East German composers that was on all those wonderful Nova and Eterna LPs along with the Muza LPs from Poland, Supraphon and Panton from what was Czechoslavia. I also like some of the western-style orchestral music from China. I will have to say, however that I hate the committee-composed stuff from North Korea! Don't care for some of the boiler-plate Russian music written for Stalin and Lenin, but even nasty guys like Pfitzner and Khrennikov wrote some pretty stuff and everybody knows Wagner's story and I just can't resist the beauty of his music. So, guess this discussion has to devolve to personal choice of what to listen to, even if it is sometimes hard to "forgive" those who wrote it. And I shall cast not the first stone, (maybe the second one?), but there again who knows. I have been brave, cowardly, kind, mean, tolerant, intolerant, smart, stupid sometimes all in the same day, kind of try to use the nice ones more often than the others. And I like Klenau's sounds.
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