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#113215 - 10/07/03 06:52 AM Re: Taps
Alex Williams Pooh-Bah Registered: 01/05/01 Posts: 1814 Loc: Spam Factory	Good question. I'm no authority but I would say yes. In fact Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima wasn't composed as such.
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#113216 - 10/07/03 08:35 AM Re: Taps
Faldage Carpal Tunnel Registered: 12/01/00 Posts: 13659	Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima wasn't composed as such. When did it get its title?
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#113217 - 10/07/03 09:43 AM Re: Taps
Alex Williams Pooh-Bah Registered: 01/05/01 Posts: 1814 Loc: Spam Factory	Well I've only learned about it this morning from Google, but here is one quote: Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima for 52 strings was composed at the turn of 1959 and it won the 3rd prize at the G. Fitelberg Composers' Competition in Katowice in 1960 . . . . The piece, which immediately aroused a tremendous interest around the world, and which won the composer a widespread popularity, was originally called 8'37" and at times also 8'26" ; the time of the performance on the stage was thus elevated to the rank of title. The piece represented an attempt to apply the sonoristic technique and rigors of specific counterpoint to an ensemble of strings treated unconventionally as to the manner in which the tone was obtained. "While reading the score" - Zielinski wrote in 1961 - "one may admire Penderecki's inventiveness and coloristic ingeniousness. Yet one cannot rightly evaluate the Threnody until it has been listened to, for only then does one face the amazing fact: all these effects have turned out to serve as a pretext to conceive a profound and dramatic work of art!" The expression of this music was received by the audience in terms of solemnity and luridness, thus making its later classification as "threnody" fully justified. On the 12th of October, 1964, Penderecki wrote: "Let the Threnody express my firm belief that the sacrifice of Hiroshima will never be forgotten and lost."
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#113218 - 10/07/03 10:38 AM Re: threnody
AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel Registered: 03/15/00 Posts: 6511 Loc: lower upstate New York	If you're going to search for it, you might try spelling it threadnodist. Good point. I was only just being, er, punfully light-hearted in my glee.
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#113219 - 10/07/03 05:39 PM Re: threnody
Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Registered: 06/24/02 Posts: 7185 Loc: Vermont	thanks for that info, Alex. I had never known that before. _________________________ formerly known as etaoin...
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#113220 - 10/08/03 08:31 AM Re: Threnody
paulb addict Registered: 03/17/00 Posts: 460 Loc: Hobart, Tasmania, Australia	I have several other pieces of music (besides the Penderecki) with the title 'Threnody' in my taped music collection: Aaron Copland: Threnody I (Igor Stravinsky, in memoriam)/Threnody II (Beatrice Cunningham, in memoriam) Peter Sculthorpe: Threnody (for cello) (elegy for Stuart Challender) [Australian conductor who died of AIDS about 10 years ago] Takashi Yoshimatsu: Threnody to Toki (for piano & orch)
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#113221 - 10/08/03 01:11 PM Re: Threnody
Alex Williams Pooh-Bah Registered: 01/05/01 Posts: 1814 Loc: Spam Factory	someone ough to write A Threnody for Kennedy
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#113222 - 10/08/03 01:29 PM Threnody by Ralph Waldo Emerson
consuelo Carpal Tunnel Registered: 06/11/01 Posts: 2636 Loc: Caribbean	http://www.completeclassics.com/p/m/poem.asp?poem=155528
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