Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 (Tek) 9/28/84 based on 9/17/84; site tekecs.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!tektronix!orca!tekecs!jeffw From: jeffw@tekecs.UUCP (Jeff Winslow) Newsgroups: net.music.classical Subject: Re: Progress, the Arts, Razor Blades and Bull Message-ID: <5157@tekecs.UUCP> Date: Fri, 1-Mar-85 12:29:54 EST Article-I.D.: tekecs.5157 Posted: Fri Mar 1 12:29:54 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 4-Mar-85 08:09:00 EST References: <8347@brl-tgr.ARPA>, <109@spar.UUCP> <963@hound.UUCP> <3096@allegra.UUCP> Organization: Tektronix, Wilsonville OR Lines: 15 > But what do you call the jump from the height of > romanticism to the atonality of Schoenberg, etc. When I hear the adagio of Mahler's 10th symphony, or Schoenberg's "Book of the Hanging Gardens", I call it a step. Onto a different path, perhaps, but just a step. Or try listening to Schoenberg's "Five pieces for Orchestra" and then Debussy's "Jeux". I did once, by chance. I was struck more by the similarity than the difference. (In fact, being a Debussy-lover from a way back, maybe this was when I began to really appreciate Schoenberg.) You knew I couldn't pass that up, didn't you? Jeff Winslow