tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8827040061563065922.post3693818495950808819..comments2024-03-27T23:06:03.736-05:00Comments on The Music Salon: The Case of StravinskyBryan Townsendhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09482696991279345516noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8827040061563065922.post-57670799093944733962013-04-08T14:31:02.176-05:002013-04-08T14:31:02.176-05:00The last few months, I've been working on an a...The last few months, I've been working on an animated graphical score of Stravinsky's Rite of Spring. As of yesterday, it is complete:<br /><br /> Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02tkp6eeh40 <br /> Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2y90hH4H7Q<br /><br />Enjoy!<br /><br />Stephen Malinowski<br />Music Animation Machine<br />stephenmalinowski.com musanimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15198495275414906726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8827040061563065922.post-58148552978589233022011-08-06T13:22:59.878-05:002011-08-06T13:22:59.878-05:00Wow, what an interesting comment! I am amazed to h...Wow, what an interesting comment! I am amazed to hear that "Caissons" is an American song. At the time, and ever since, I thought it was from the Boer War. Regarding the hog-bellies, I am probably projecting backwards because I don't remember it as well as "Caissons". I think the report was from Calgary feed lots and now that I think back, it was probably quoting something about yearling calves.<br /><br />But let me hasten to support your comment about the CBC. Later on I heard much wonderful music because of them. In the 1960s CBC television used to have Glenn Gould on playing Bach preludes and fugues. Can't do better than that! And the first time I heard a Shostakovich symphony it was on CBC Radio.<br /><br />Isn't it amazing how sometimes music just grips you?Bryan Townsendhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09482696991279345516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8827040061563065922.post-21509600672691732052011-08-06T13:09:17.242-05:002011-08-06T13:09:17.242-05:00The Caissons Keep Rolling Along" ...No, reall...The Caissons Keep Rolling Along" ...No, really! <br />Radio...CBC AM...the farm report "hog bellies up 2/10ths this morning..." No, really! <br /><br />Your anaphoric "No, really!" is, I suppose, intended to forefend incredulity at the dryness in your adolescent cultural desert. What caught my attention as a Canadian of similar vintage (and rural remoteness) was the cultural origin of your citations -- The United States of America. <br /><br />Despite our being British Subjects at the time (and to this day Subjects of the Crown) with a picture of the Queen at the front of every classroom, a very considerable part of our curriculum was adopted (often not adapted) from the US. I remember a teacher solemnly explaining that the dollar sign, $ (in those days with two vertical lines), was devised by superimposing the letters "U" and "S" on each other, because that is where all money is printed. <br /><br />Perhaps in no area was US dominance more thorough than in "Music". "John Brown's Body" celebrating the American abolitionist, in our country that never had the institution of slavery, is one that I am recall. The "Caissons" song is a thoroughly US military song; and the hog-bellies figures were from the Chicago Commodities Exchange. <br /><br />And much as conservatives like me thoroughly detest the CBC for its current left-wing bias(so blatant as to be almost comical -- in a bitter way), it did in that long ago era of our adolescence far from all urban civilization provide a window to bits of high culture. Usually, I had little interest in music and listened only to what other people had on: Hank Snow, Pat Boone, Elvis, etc.<br /><br />I was 14 at home during the summer vacation. The radio was on to CBC. I was racing through the kitchen to go out the back door, when the sound suddenly stopped me like a giant hand and pulled me back from sunny play. I was suddenly alert as a pointer and utterly entranced. As the work continued for another five minutes or so, I learned that music was something I had never heard before and that I must never fail to hear forever after. <br /><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8I9BtL-kyURGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17404263429983838122noreply@blogger.com