[MiNe 109]

In article ,
(paul packer) wrote:

On Mon, 25 Sep 2006 15:00:47 GMT, Jenn
wrote:


Well, we just disagree then. That's why I call him a "bridge composer".
I would agree that most of the symphonies are a bit more 20th century in
their use of harmonic language, but his most performed works would be
considered darned conservative 20th century music! ;-)

Still disagree. One of his most performed works is the Tallis
Fantasia, and that in fact is quite a progressive work owing very
little to the 19th century. I genuinely believe that listening too
much to the few (too few) performed works at the expensive of his
entire oeuvre leads to a quite wrong notion about RVW, and you're
certainly not the first to hold it.

I doubt Jenn has too narrow an experience of RVW, but I agree insofar as
his modernity is obscured by his relative lack of chromatic harmony in
certain works.

Stephen