Sunday, October 15, 2017

Ralph Vaughan Williams - Symphony No.9


Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Malcolm Sargent, conductor

Vaughan William's last symphony, completed shortly before his sudden death.   Not bad for an 85 year old man.   It's a work of someone in full control of musical materials, especially the very large orchestra he chose to write it for.

I was dared to post something by RVW.  Why the dare?  No idea.

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  1. Why the dare? I can't speak for who made it, but I have a suspicion.

    It's because you are on record as dissing RVW's 5th Symphony -- written in the despairing depths of England during WWII, and one of the most transcendentally glorious pieces of music ever -- as a trite piece of shit.

    It was pretty much the moment when I first realized you were an emotionally stunted horrible horrible person. And that was before I knew you were an anti-Semite

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    1. I believe you are mixing that up with what you read about the 4th Symphony somewhere, I doubt you've ever listened to either of them.

      Where did I diss it? I don't recall that.

      RVW isn't my favorite composer but the only piece of his I think I ever really criticized was his Variations on Greensleeves, which I hate.

      I posted this mostly so people could see, once again, that you're a huge liar. You are the kind of asshole who degrades the effectiveness of the idea of anti-semitism by calling people who aren't anti-semites, anti-semites. But as it's pretty well limited to the callower coprophages who feed at Duncan's dunghill, I doubt anyone I'd care about would believe it. Anyone who knows you and knows something would know it was a lie.

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    2. Oh, and I should add that when people assigned programmatic content to RVW's symphonies he denied it saying they were motivated only by the musical material that he came up with. I know you superficial dopes need to have stories attached to everything but not everything has one.

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