Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site trwrdc.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!trwrdc!frith From: frith@trwrdc.UUCP (Lord Frith) Newsgroups: net.music.classical Subject: Re: Sibelius - tone poems (really Mahler) Message-ID: <1086@trwrdc.UUCP> Date: Fri, 1-Nov-85 08:54:50 EST Article-I.D.: trwrdc.1086 Posted: Fri Nov 1 08:54:50 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 3-Nov-85 14:46:59 EST References: <730@charm.UUCP> <1062@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP> Reply-To: frith@trwrdc.UUCP (Lord Frith) Organization: TRW Advanced Technology Facility, Merrifield VA. Lines: 22 In article <5778@tekecs.UUCP> jeffw@tekecs.UUCP (Jeff Winslow) writes: > > I have no trouble understanding Mahler's music, both subjectively and > objectively (where I have studied it in this fashion). Each measure > brings something new, interesting and appropriate. And I am not easily > interested or entertained. > > Now I can understand someone being turned off by his style (intricate and > emotional), although personally I love it. Are you sure that's not the > real reason you feel as you do? My complaints are entirely subjective. Yes Mahler is intricate. And boy is he emotional! A bit too much for my tastes. My major complaint is that Mahler's music just doesn't GO anywhere. I find myself sitting here gripping the edge of my chair and muttering to myself "get ON with it.... get ON WITH IT!" And when he has finally finished I ask myself "now where have we been?" And I find we really haven't gone far enough. I like music that has economy and a sense of purpose. Mahler washes his entire brain out at you. After a while it becomes numbing.