Word: tonalism
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...next movie - he?s still one of the only big-time directors around who holds out the promise of something different. And like I said, it?s still a pretty good movie. But while the 1968 "Planet of the Apes" succeeded in spite of its shortcomings - mostly technical, some tonal - Burton seemed mostly interested in shoring up his predecessors? weak points rather than aiming for the stars with the movie?s inherent potential for intelligence and at least surface profundity. And the original "Planet of the Apes" was too, well, original to deserve Tim Burton turning it into something that...
...Tonalists," composers who have turned away from hard-edged, avant-garde sounds, troubled me [MUSIC, March 6]. I don't like the idea that there are only two 20th century musical camps and that consonance and dissonance are the determining factors. Composers of the Romantic era took the tonal system they inherited from the classicists and extended it. As a composer, I want to have an unlimited number of tools at my disposal. This idea of consonance vs. dissonance, simplicity vs. complexity and Brussels sprouts vs. steak forces me to limit myself by choosing one or the other. If everyone...
...named several current composers aligned with those called the "New Tonalists." But a number of other composers, myself included, foreshadowed the return to tonalism back in the 1950s and '60s, when audiences left the concert halls in droves to protest what they felt was music that did not communicate. My compositions were dubbed "hopelessly tonal." Now it is safe to be a tonal composer. But the risk lies in music becoming so openly derivative and unchallenging, so dangerously reliant on effect, that it will invite a swing away from tonality and a move back to another period of nontonality. BENJAMIN...