As our circle of knowledge expands, so does the circumference of darkness surrounding it
Albert Einstein
My Music
Without music, life would be a mistake
Friedrich Nietzsche
My Library
If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads
Ralph Waldo Emerson
My Albums
Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop
Ansel Adams
Some Anecdotes
Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experiencedLife can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards
>Søren Kierkegaard
Quiz Number 3
These quiz questions were originally posted in facebook with a very short clip as a clue – so here I will post the clues before the teaserbreak. The task is to identify the composer and the music.
Had the pleasure of playing this in the presence of the composer in Aldeburgh. I guess some consider this as a bit of a ‘novelty’ piece – but it is brilliantly put together and great fun to play.
Do have to make a confession – after the fugue when the horns come in with the theme again at the end of the work I always found it impossible to work out (in a sort of mathematical sense) how the notes that the horns had to play fitted to the rhythms that came beforehand – so I resorted to “gut feel” – there have been a few other pieces of music since that offered similar problems – but even today nothing quite like the ‘unknown’ of that particular entry.
I think it had something to do with the fact that having been rollicking along in 2/4 the tune returns when the time signature turns to 3/4 – or 6/8 for the horns and some others and there is little chance to figure out how the cross-rhythm duplets fit in the fourth bar.