RESOUNDING ECHOES with Robert McCarney

Pluck it and See

Hello, good afternoon, and a very warm welcome to today's episode of Resounding Echoes. I would like to start today with a little news. I became aware, just after last week's programme, of a new book that should be of interest to anyone listening to this programme ...

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© 2024 Robert McCarney :

Resounding Echoes: Pluck it and See

Copyright © 21 July 2024 Robert McCarney,
León, Spain

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Book news

Suppressed Composers in the Netherlands - Forbidden Music in the Second World War

Suppressed Composers in the Netherlands -
    Forbidden Music in the Second World War
Edited by Carine Alders and Eleonore Pameijer
Foreword by Michael Haas
Boydell & Brewer, 2024
Online ISBN: 9781800105010

 

Sound samples

Arnold Schoenberg: Chamber Symphony No 1, Op 9 (1907 version)
Karajan-Akademie der Berliner Philharmoniker / Matthias Pintscher
20 September 2021, Philharmonie, Berlin, Germany

Charles Ives: Scherzo – Over the Pavements (1906)
Ensemble Modern / Ingo Metzmacher
℗ 1992 Warner Music Group

 

Pluck it and See

To pluck or not to pluck, that is the question.
Whether tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The strings and sorrows of outrageous tuning
Or to take an axe to Cs in rubble
And by opposable thumbs mend them.
For who would bear the whips of common time.
Thus consonace doth make cowards of us all.

 

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The background image on this page has been derived from Shipwreck (1856, pencil and gouache on paper) by Russian Romantic painter Ivan Aivazovsky (1817-1900).

 

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