Comments on: Musical walls http://rogerbourland.com/2007/06/11/musical-walls/ Roger Bourland writes about music and life Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:06:00 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Brad Wood http://rogerbourland.com/2007/06/11/musical-walls/comment-page-1/#comment-33165 Brad Wood Tue, 12 Jun 2007 06:07:30 +0000 http://rogerbourland.com/blog/2007/06/11/musical-walls/#comment-33165 My name-witheld boyhood best friend, and, bless him, instigator of the earliest and quite terrifying errr experiments, went through a phase where he thought that about any harmonic advance beyond very selectively winnowed early Classical style was "noise". I remember when we were listening to the Brahms 2nd piano concerto, and in the last movement came the prolonged V chord with the added 9th, and predictably he proclaimed "NOISE!!". His older brother Denis, who has since become a noted philosopher, was rather more adventurous, and introduced us to such delights as the Ives 2nd sonata. It's fun to read the liner notes for the recording he had, the one done by Aloys Kontarsky, if memory serves on the long-gone TIME label. It has some very snide Eurocentric-avant-garde remarks. I think it's about the worst of the recorded Concords, but even at that the music comes through. My name-witheld boyhood best friend, and, bless him, instigator of the earliest and quite terrifying errr experiments, went through a phase where he thought that about any harmonic advance beyond very selectively winnowed early Classical style was “noise”. I remember when we were listening to the Brahms 2nd piano concerto, and in the last movement came the prolonged V chord with the added 9th, and predictably he proclaimed “NOISE!!”.

His older brother Denis, who has since become a noted philosopher, was rather more adventurous, and introduced us to such delights as the Ives 2nd sonata. It’s fun to read the liner notes for the recording he had, the one done by Aloys Kontarsky, if memory serves on the long-gone TIME label. It has some very snide Eurocentric-avant-garde remarks. I think it’s about the worst of the recorded Concords, but even at that the music comes through.

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