{"id":1079,"date":"2020-07-08T15:10:35","date_gmt":"2020-07-08T15:10:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=1079"},"modified":"2024-04-06T20:30:47","modified_gmt":"2024-04-06T20:30:47","slug":"my-first-taste-of-modern-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/my-first-taste-of-modern-music\/","title":{"rendered":"My First Taste Of &#8216;Modern&#8217; Music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the first pieces of &#8220;modern&#8221; that I played was Bartok&#8217;s Concerto for Orchestra &#8211; barely a quarter of a century old when I played it! We were fortunate to have a conductor (John Carewe) who was able to tell us a lot about the music since this was very different from the &#8220;typical&#8221; Glasgow Schools&#8217; Orchestra repertoire. At the time it was seen as quite a radical departure &#8211; it being his first year conducting the orchestra.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I am sharing just the second (of five) movement today &#8211; in the central part it has a lovely brass chorale &#8211; very similar to the chorale in Eric Ball&#8217;s &#8220;The Eternal Presence&#8221; for those who know that music. The entry in the middle of the chorale is one of those that horn players &#8216;love&#8217; &#8211; high in the register, quiet &#8211; and very exposed.<\/p>\n<h5 align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/VrNYgxDhLkk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">B\u00e9la Bart\u00f3k : Concerto For Orchestra &#8211; 2nd Movt<\/a><\/h5>\n<div class=\"video-container\">\n<div class=\"video-wrapper\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VrNYgxDhLkk\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><em>Comments<\/em>\u00a0:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Beverley Williams<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Great piece. My A level music set piece \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><strong>George R McConnell<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I did the Scottish &#8220;Higher&#8221; exam rather than A levels &#8211; one of the set pieces was his &#8220;Music for Strings, Percussion and Celeste&#8221; &#8211; I definitely prefer the this one though! \ud83d\ude03<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brian Milligan<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I did that piece as well, George. Another one I remember was Psalmus Hungaricus . I think that was what it was titled. Also the Pastoral Symphony. I had the same school music teacher as Ian Milligan and her assistant, Mr Knox had been Ian&#8217;s friend at music college.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the first pieces of &#8220;modern&#8221; that I played was Bartok&#8217;s Concerto for Orchestra &#8211; barely a quarter of a century old when I played it! We were fortunate to have a conductor (John Carewe) who was able to tell us a lot about the music since this was very different from the &#8220;typical&#8221; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/my-first-taste-of-modern-music\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;My First Taste Of &#8216;Modern&#8217; Music&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[124],"tags":[100],"class_list":["post-1079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-orchestral"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1079"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1088,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1079\/revisions\/1088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}