Word: chromaticisms
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Philip Glass: North Star (Virgin Records). Nothing happens in the usual sense. Glass composes by an additive process. Short melodies are repeated dozens, even hundreds of times, while new elements are gradually introduced and events are kept to a minimum. The composer writes for amplified keyboards, winds and voices, using...
...atmosphere of fin-de-siecle decadence with the ponderously rich chromatic harmonies of the post-Wagnerian idiom. He matured as a composer at a time when tonality, the structure which had supported music for over 300 years, was finally sinking under the bloated burden of its own chromaticism into an anarchic morass. The ferment which resulted from the destruction of the old order gave rise to Schoenberg's great expressionist compositions like the sextet Verklarte Nacht, which seems to breathe in that decaying, sickeningly rich atmosphere, and Pierrot Lunaire, which for many is the ultimate expression of diseased, depraved emotions...
And, in what is the most important achievement of this book, Rosen reveals the manner in which non-tonal music can supply both tension and the release of tension that many have criticized Schoenberg for destroying. "The saturation of musical space is Schoenberg's substitute for the tonic chord of...
Charles de Gaulle used to enjoy singing La Marseillaise, but French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing apparently does not even like to hear it. "The President of the Republic thinks Ihe familiar version is too rapid, loo chromatic. He just does not like it," says Roger Boutry...
Friday night's guest soloist was Richard Kogan, winner of the 1974 HRO Concerto Competition. Kogan is a 19-year-old freshman who upon arrival last fall was immediately welcomed in musical circles as the most accomplished pianist at Harvard in many years. He has studied piano since age seven...