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"John Atkinson" wrote:
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(paul packer) wrote:
Britain's best 20th century composer was of course Vaughan
Williams.
I LOVE RVW, but I think of him as a 19th century composer, as
indicated by his harmonic language.
Yes. Not that there's anything wrong with that.
Same with Holst.
Well...
I think of the various folk music influences as 20th century.
Interesting! I think of them as decidedly 19th century! I'm
re-studying his Folk Song Suite now for performances in March, btw.
Such great songs: Seventeen Come Sunday, My Bonnie Boy, etc.
In some
ways V-W's modalities are more modern than the chromaticism of, say,
Strauss.
In some of this things, I would agree.
Followed possibly by Walton. And then another couple of
dozen before you get to Arnold.
I agree with you about Walton. Love his stuff: Crown Imperial,
Facade, etc
Never found the depths I expected there (might be me, of course). But
you guys are all forgetting Benjamin Britten!
The greatest in the opera house, surely.
Stephen
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I'll repeat a very simplistic criticism of Vaughan.Williams that I
heard in England many years ago: "You're waiting for him to finally get
somewhere and he never does"
Somehow when I listen to his symphonies I can never get it out of my
mind.
Ludovic M.