Day 214: A good, no, “excellent” day
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Day
214 — A good, no, “excellent” day
03-March-1972
(Freitag–Fri.)
TRANSCRIPT
Had a good lecture in electronic music today. With
musical examples. Interesting.
Had a rehearsal of Bruckner—woodshedding rehearsal.
Had an excellent “übungen” about microphone
recording. Excellent knowledge for anyone to have.
However, for me, at this point a little too
confusing.
Heard an excellent concert by DFR [?] –
The Rite
of Spring and a new piece by Berio.
The Berio piece fascinated me—using voices and
talking. It was actually a comprehensible piece of
good, contemporary music. It sort of had “good
vibrations” with me, and very few pieces do that.
Have also finished one page of my score.
In other words, had a good day.
REFLECTIONS
An
excellent day. Electronic
music in class. Also a lecture on microphones in
electronic music class, though I missed a lot of
detail due to my German. Rehearsing Bruckner. An
appreciative concert at night. Stravinsky and Berio.
Praise.
Just
yesterday, I’m critical of contemporary music and
today I’m praising contemporary at a live concert.
Just another example of the Ying and Yang of life.
See Day 057. Luciano Berio’s music has always had
some emotion to it. I don’t remember this particular
piece, however, one of his famous vocal
pieces—Visage—had
the same impact on me. Some emotion to the music.
Imagine the “emotional” impact of Stravinsky’s
Rite
of Spring at it’s
premiere performance. Today, the music is considered
traditional but there is “feeling” behind this music.
Maybe that’s what I like—feeling.
John
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