<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Amazon Ember",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:small">I grossly misspelled her name in an earlier post. Only the piano music is to my liking, but I really do like it. re movie music: I often tune it out, pun intended. Nowadays one has to tune out most of the music on TV ( with hearing aids the combination of voice and music makes the voice unintelligible very often)- I should thank them, however, for making turning up the music a signal that a commercial is coming up, so I can reach for the mute. I watch most sports muted anway. bill w</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Amazon Ember",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Amazon Ember",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:small">Grazyna Bacewicz (1909-1969) is one of the most significant composers of the mid-20th century, and yet her music remains largely unknown. In the period be- tween the two world wars, she studied in Paris with Nadia Boulanger, like so many American, British, and Polish composers, but during her lifetime her reputation rarely translated itself into frequent performances outside her native Poland. Bacewicz had a distinctive creative personality and an intuitive approach to form that rewards close study. Her experience as an orchestral leader and concert violinist informed and enriched the string writing in the string quartets, violin concerts and sonatas which have received some attention on record. However, distinguished pianists such as Krystian Zimerman have recently begun to make a persuasive case for Bacewiczs piano writing, which may be appreciated at its freest and most demanding in the Second Piano Sonata which brings Morta Grigaliunaites recital to a thrilling close. Bacewicz declared that she did not see herself as an innovator but as a progressive composer: Each work completed today becomes the past yesterday. Her two sets of etudes tackle different techniques of pianism within clear, often ternary forms, but the imaginative ideas within them hint at her larger works in a similar way to the etudes and mazurkas of her compatriots Chopin and Szymanowski, highlighting her seemingly endless capacity for reinvention. Morta Grigaliunaite also includes in her survey a series of lighter works: the Little Triptych, the Concert Krakowiak, a Childrens Suite and Trois pièces caractéristiques most of them hardly more than a minute or two in length, yet all bursting with individual ideas which reveal Bacewiczs own considerable talents as a pianist</span><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Oct 30, 2020 at 12:13 PM Dan TheBookMan via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">A problem I have with many movies is too much music. I'm not taking a<br>
general stand against film music, but the overreliance on it is a bad<br>
thing too. In fact, many scenes might be better with silence or just<br>
the expected sounds in the scene (footsteps, wind, whatever). Often<br>
though music is used a crutch or ruins what could be an effective<br>
scene. And then there's the wrong music... The film Gladiator comes to<br>
mind with Hans Zimmer's ill-chosen playlist.<br>
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Regards,<br>
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Dan<br>
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