Word: symphonicment
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However they express their appreciation, the Japanese are now saturated with Occidental sound. It was during the reign of the actively Westernizing Emperor Meiji (1868-1912) that European music was adopted by the Japanese school system. But as recently as World War II, the country had only one major orchestra...
The orchestra, which provided solid support for Chang under the clear direction of Dr. Yannatos, began the program with a mediocre work of their won--Men and Mountains by Carl Ruggles. His works get played when patriotic programmers want to include something distinctively American. But even a Blake reference in...
Bernstein starts at the parlor game level, trying to find analogies between language and music. First he tries matching up sounds with tones, words with musical phrases, and so on. "I believe it's no accident that the German word satz means both sentence and symphonic movement." This seems a...
Hector Berlioz: The Damnation of Faust (Seiji Ozawa conducts the Boston Symphony Orchestra with the Tanglewood Festival Chorus; Deutsche Grammophon, 3 LPs, $23.94). Rhythm and an instinct for drama animate Ozawa's shaping of this Berlioz semiopera. Although it overflows with melody, Berlioz's musical transformation of Goethe...
YES: TALES FROM TOPOGRAPHIC OCEANS (Atlantic, 2 LPs). Bright aural mosaics from small motifs are constructed on a Mahlerian scale in this 80-minute work of symphonic rock.