Do you mean that Calimac should have recognized the piece as obviously not Bartok, or that Licad's pronunciation of "Gottschalk" sounds nothing like "Bartok"? I can't speak to the former point, but from that video I can understand how one could make the latter mistake -- particularly if she didn't refer to the work as a "Spanish piece" in the concert he reviewed.
Myself, I'm grateful for the whole exchange, as I'd never heard of Gottschalk, and youtube led me to several enjoyable pieces, including his first so-called symphony (which appears to sometimes be called the "Romantic Symphony" and sometimes be called "A Night in the Tropics" -- though at other times that name is used only for the first movement). The second movement, "Festa criolla" ("Creole Feast"?), reminds me just a little of Arturo Marquez's "Danzon no. 2", which has been discussed here before and which I first encountered in three different drum and bugle corps transcriptions. Surely the Madison Scouts or Hawthorne Caballeros should tackle the Gottschalk!
Returning to the primary subject of this post: I agree with everything said, though I have not always lived up to those standards. I was part of that now-hidden and interminable conversation here, which I know then spun off into some e-mail conversations as well. Nowadays in comment sections or discussion boards, I self-censor at least one-fourth of what I write before hitting "post". Many are the comments I've spent a quarter of an hour writing before I decide it was not worth anyone's time for me to share.
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Date: 2012-10-20 06:37 pm (UTC)Myself, I'm grateful for the whole exchange, as I'd never heard of Gottschalk, and youtube led me to several enjoyable pieces, including his first so-called symphony (which appears to sometimes be called the "Romantic Symphony" and sometimes be called "A Night in the Tropics" -- though at other times that name is used only for the first movement). The second movement, "Festa criolla" ("Creole Feast"?), reminds me just a little of Arturo Marquez's "Danzon no. 2", which has been discussed here before and which I first encountered in three different drum and bugle corps transcriptions. Surely the Madison Scouts or Hawthorne Caballeros should tackle the Gottschalk!
Returning to the primary subject of this post: I agree with everything said, though I have not always lived up to those standards. I was part of that now-hidden and interminable conversation here, which I know then spun off into some e-mail conversations as well. Nowadays in comment sections or discussion boards, I self-censor at least one-fourth of what I write before hitting "post". Many are the comments I've spent a quarter of an hour writing before I decide it was not worth anyone's time for me to share.
-MTD/neb