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the gallery of symphonic peanuts
Nov. 13th, 2007 10:11 pmI wondered what would happen when SFCV, the review site I write for, enabled user comments. And now I know. My article on Symphonies No. 8 generated two comments by people who wanted to show off how many symphonists they'd heard of who were omitted from the article.
I replied to the first one ... I tried hard not to say that, for many of those composers, the reason I don't have their Symphony No. 8 is because I found their Symphonies No. Something Else to be thoroughly uninteresting. I have no plans to expand my William Schuman or Peter Mennin collections any time soon; Hartmann (Karl Amadeus, I presume) and Simpson (Robert) just aren't much my style, and late-period Raff and Spohr mostly deserve to stay buried. I like the Mannheim symphonists, but their works are mostly not numbered.
I simply ignored the second commenter, though. I saw no upside in pointing out to him that four of his seven composers never even got so far as an Eighth Symphony, though in all four cases one might wish they had. I suspect any readers who care would know that.
Strange that neither listed the two composers whose Eighths I'm most likely to acquire: Glazunov and ... darn, I should have mentioned Eduard Tubin. Like George Lloyd, a composer whom Fanfare's record reviewers used to obsess over, far beyond his modest but respectable deserts.
I replied to the first one ... I tried hard not to say that, for many of those composers, the reason I don't have their Symphony No. 8 is because I found their Symphonies No. Something Else to be thoroughly uninteresting. I have no plans to expand my William Schuman or Peter Mennin collections any time soon; Hartmann (Karl Amadeus, I presume) and Simpson (Robert) just aren't much my style, and late-period Raff and Spohr mostly deserve to stay buried. I like the Mannheim symphonists, but their works are mostly not numbered.
I simply ignored the second commenter, though. I saw no upside in pointing out to him that four of his seven composers never even got so far as an Eighth Symphony, though in all four cases one might wish they had. I suspect any readers who care would know that.
Strange that neither listed the two composers whose Eighths I'm most likely to acquire: Glazunov and ... darn, I should have mentioned Eduard Tubin. Like George Lloyd, a composer whom Fanfare's record reviewers used to obsess over, far beyond his modest but respectable deserts.
