Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83 based; site hound.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!hound!rfg From: rfg@hound.UUCP (R.GRANTGES) Newsgroups: net.music.classical Subject: Re: Tone poems Message-ID: <1322@hound.UUCP> Date: Sat, 24-Aug-85 00:03:33 EDT Article-I.D.: hound.1322 Posted: Sat Aug 24 00:03:33 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 25-Aug-85 00:14:24 EDT References: <478@petrus.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel NJ Lines: 22 [] hmmm. I find Holst's Planets pretty impenitrable. image-wise. But there is mmm, Glazounov (?) "Sergeant Preston of the Yukon music which could only be lightly wooded northern land with many swiftly running streams in springtime. Von Suppe's light cavalry overture, which could only be a battle with cavalry charge, followed by picking up the dead from the field and a final charge. Tschaikovsky's "Passing Parade" music (you have to be over ...45? to know that one. Liszt' Les Prelude could only be about fate and the ineffibleness of it all. "Over the Waves" could only be a skaters' waltz unless you grew up in Minneapolis long ago and know it means "Buy Northland Ice Cream, It's a Taste Treat Right Out of a Dream..." All of The Seasons by Vivaldi... There are hundreds of examples which not everyone will agree with and many will flame as irrelevant to music. -- "It's the thought, if any, that counts!" Dick Grantges hound!rfg