第三十七期：Charles Ives: American Pioneer
概要
这期介绍的是美国作曲家 Charles Ives～ 这哥们主业是保险推销员，在工作之余创作了一大堆非常先锋的作品（远早于勋伯格或者斯特拉文斯基进行的那些实验），或者按照伯恩斯坦的说法：有趣的作品。在他的作品中有不同的节奏同时演奏，有非常dissonance的音符，还有对各种熟悉旋律的”搞怪“演绎。当然有趣只是他音乐的一方面，伯恩斯坦还提到他对熟悉曲调的演绎蕴涵了一种他对过去小镇生活时光的回忆，那些熟悉的曲调随着时间的流逝好像变得模糊不清。除了热爱他的家乡，歌曲 Lincoln, The Great Commoner 展现了 Ives 爱国主义的一面。最后，伯恩斯坦指挥了 Ives 最著名的作品 The Unanswered Question，这周曲子直接直指人类的终极哲学问题 why do we exist：这首作品的构思很有意思，小号问了七次问题，木管们试图回答，回答越来越快越来越 gibberish，而与此同时弦乐们轻柔的演奏着他们自己的旋律，很像现在的 ambience music。在小号最后一次问出问题之后，木管们没有回答，空留“宇宙之声”回响 🌌

喜欢的 Quote
Just imagine: in those early 1900's what was called "crazy modern music" consisted of Debussy, Ravel, and Richard Strauss — all composers we think of today as pretty stodgy old-timers. And yet, in those very same years, this Connecticut Yankee named Ives was already madly pursuing his own off beat ideas, writing music that no one could decipher, no one could play, and no one cared to hear.

But really to understand Ives, or any adventurer for that matter, we must remember that the spirit of adventure is just another way of saying the spirit of play, the sporting instinct — doing things simply for the fun of doing them.

Now I've always thought that word fun was unjustly belittled; it's a wonderful word; and I believe it applies just as much to music as to roller-coaster rides or swimming or movies.

曲目
1. Charles Ives - The Gong on the Hook and Ladder or, Firemen's Parade on Main Street
2. Charles Ives - Washington's Birthday
3. Charles Ives - Circus Band March
4. Charles Ives - Lincoln, The Great Commoner
5. Charles Ives - The Unanswered Question

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