Yes, it really does make for a surprisingly cohesive listening experience, almost as if one ultra-eclectic composer (maybe someone like Aho, in fact) had written the lot.
Max C
5 years ago
Love following your posts, particularly the annual BBC proms new works. Interestingly when it comes to the voting your readership almost unvaryingly agrees with you. Its almost always possible to guess the result just by reading your final sumation of each piece.
Max C
5 years ago
Love following your posts, particularly the annual BBC proms new works. Interestingly when it comes to the voting your readership almost unvaryingly agrees with you. Its almost always possible to guess the result just by reading your final summing up of each piece.
i think this tends to be most true in the immediate period after i’ve written each article, but then it often deviates a bit more as time goes on. Many’s the time a piece ends up being liked or disliked significantly differently from my own view. But it’s true that there are also many times when readers agree with my assessment.
What do you think about that? Personally, i’ve never really read too much into it, aside from it being a fairly basic agreement with the general cut of my critical jib.
I guess naturally avid followers of your blog are going to have musical tastes in the same or similar direction as your own. But I do probably feel that in general opinions tend to be swayed by the response of the critics. I guess it stands to reason when the whole point of reading a critical review is to gain some insight into whether something is any good or not, and it is always harder to go against the grain, especially when the other person really seems to know what they are talking about. I am not intending to level any criticism at your readership, it was just an idle observation over the past years.
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love Birtwistle. shall try to listen.
Yes, it really does make for a surprisingly cohesive listening experience, almost as if one ultra-eclectic composer (maybe someone like Aho, in fact) had written the lot.
Love following your posts, particularly the annual BBC proms new works. Interestingly when it comes to the voting your readership almost unvaryingly agrees with you. Its almost always possible to guess the result just by reading your final sumation of each piece.
Love following your posts, particularly the annual BBC proms new works. Interestingly when it comes to the voting your readership almost unvaryingly agrees with you. Its almost always possible to guess the result just by reading your final summing up of each piece.
i think this tends to be most true in the immediate period after i’ve written each article, but then it often deviates a bit more as time goes on. Many’s the time a piece ends up being liked or disliked significantly differently from my own view. But it’s true that there are also many times when readers agree with my assessment.
What do you think about that? Personally, i’ve never really read too much into it, aside from it being a fairly basic agreement with the general cut of my critical jib.
I guess naturally avid followers of your blog are going to have musical tastes in the same or similar direction as your own. But I do probably feel that in general opinions tend to be swayed by the response of the critics. I guess it stands to reason when the whole point of reading a critical review is to gain some insight into whether something is any good or not, and it is always harder to go against the grain, especially when the other person really seems to know what they are talking about. I am not intending to level any criticism at your readership, it was just an idle observation over the past years.