Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 (Tek) 9/26/83; site tekecs.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!orca!tekecs!jeffw From: jeffw@tekecs.UUCP (Jeff Winslow) Newsgroups: net.music.classical Subject: Intensity of Stravinsky Message-ID: <4069@tekecs.UUCP> Date: Tue, 18-Sep-84 13:29:39 EDT Article-I.D.: tekecs.4069 Posted: Tue Sep 18 13:29:39 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 25-Sep-84 07:57:32 EDT Organization: Tektronix, Wilsonville OR Lines: 15 I've just got to disagree with Rich Rosen so you all know I'm normal, too! (Ha! Ha! Ha!) Seriously, I can think of any number of passages in late Beethoven quartets (I assume Rich meant real "classical" music in this context) that rival or surpass anything Stravinsky wrote in intensity - at least on some days. And that's just it. What seems intense has as much or more to do with the state of the listener than that of the composer. Some days I'll be driven by the Rite, some days by Beethoven's op. 111 piano sonata, some days by Tristan, some days by... incredible, he didn't mention Schoe... Jeff Winslow