tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13593902.post1470651531366806796..comments2024-02-11T09:55:50.468-08:00Comments on The Eastside View: Contemporary Music in EvolutionCharles Sherehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10480432901356490235noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13593902.post-58603466782202019652008-02-05T23:30:00.000-08:002008-02-05T23:30:00.000-08:00"There are secondary and tertiary effects, as in h...<I>"There are secondary and tertiary effects, as in human evolution, that hold. / This idea of evolution was something I took very seriously and still apply."<BR/><BR/>Yes, that's what I meant: the pieces themselves contribute to, and then draw from, a continuing accumulation. This is of course a special sense of the word "evolution," but one which restores to that word its root sense which doesn't include anything at all of betterment or improvement or gradual drawing-near-to-perfection, which is what "evolution" seems to have come to mean.<BR/><BR/>Feldman, yes; Liderman... I'll get around to them later on...</I>Charles Sherehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10480432901356490235noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13593902.post-69208095458636829842008-02-05T22:22:00.000-08:002008-02-05T22:22:00.000-08:00Interesting thing about the Schuller programs ... ...Interesting thing about the Schuller programs ... I listened to them also, in New York City on WBAI ... was this idea that music, and indeed culture, evolves one piece of music, one art work at a time. And this seems to be true even if the composers haven't necessarily heard or been directly influenced by the work that immediately preceded them. There are secondary and tertiary effects, as in human evolution, that hold.<BR/><BR/>This idea of evolution was something I took very seriously and still apply. That's why (I think) it is important when looking back at the development of a style or attitude to look around at what else was going on at the time the composer was working - politics, poetry, psychology, even technology. <BR/><BR/>The SFCMP concert last night was an exceptionally good one. All the pieces had something to recommend. The Feldman was played exquisitely and the big piece of the evening, Liderman's <I>Furthermore...</I> reminded me so much of Milhaud's pan-American chamber pieces. I loved it. (Which only magnifies the tragedy surrounding it.)rchrdhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10173134583891999855noreply@blogger.com