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Originally Posted by vienna
but passed on the Schoenberg...
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My thoughts exactly.
My father played in the German Symphony Orchestra. When a piece of so-called modern music was part of the program, many musicians used to have pills against headaches with them and hiddenly consumed them, when situation allowed. No joke. Nickname for Schoenberg and generally modern music was "Musik des Grauens" ("music of horror").
Directors sometimes love it, because it gives them a stage to make it into the news, the noisier the better. But musicians hate it, almost all of them. Modern music would not be performed, if it were up to the orchestra to decide. Back then there were three other orchestras in (West)Berlin. Musicians there did not see it any different than their colleagues in the DSO.
And the "partitions" the
really modern Modern music has, not necessarily Schoenberg on mind. No notes and lines - but random
Kritzelkrakel. Like what you see in comics when they use graphics to indicate wild cursing, a rumblefight or something like that. Noise, with the optimistically labelled "partition" just serving as an alibi.
Not everything new necessarily always is the art of the future. Sometimes garbage even after a hundred years still is just garbage. If it still is even remembered then.