(May 23, 2015 at 2:05 am)Minimalist Wrote: Back.
First, the modern piece of shit was some atrocity called "Finding Rothko." "Rothko" is some modern painter. To drive the point home they flashed samples of his work that supposedly "inspired" the music. All I can say about the paintings is that Rothko seems like an untalented 3 year old who found the finger paint. The music was worse. Rothko should be killed not found.
Following that was the Bruch Violin Concerto. Now, the bar for the evening had been set low by the first piece and Bruch easily cleared it. The violinist was superb. The first movement was very good, the second somewhat pedestrian but the third really made up for that Finding Rothko shit.
The Mahler concluded the evening and brought down the house.
Now I have the bad news. The composer of the travesty was Adam Schoenberg. He was born in 1980, and is still alive.
See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Schoenberg
http://adamschoenberg.com
You will likely go to prison if you kill him, but lovers of music will sing your praises. That you would likely go to prison is because there is no justice in the world. I will certainly not cooperate with the prosecution if you sacrifice yourself for the good of music. And please, do not post your plans online, as I do not want to read about a retired history professor being charged with murder for killing someone who is killing culture.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.