I can't stand Stravinsky, Bartok and Copland. Scriabin I don't know....never cared enough to find out. Ravel and Debussy are sleep-inducing. The atonalists should be boiled in oil.
Rachmaninoff leaves me cold although Prokofiev is tolerable much of the time. There's another Russian composer, Alexander Glazounov who I generally enjoy and Shostakovitch's 7th Symphony is very good. I think the Party kept them in line and didn't let them get as decadent as the west.
I have stopped going to the local symphony because they insist upon pairing something wonderful, like Beethoven's 7th, with some 21st century piece of shit like "Sonata for Chain Saw and Coffee Grinder," by Kutcherkockoff who was born in 1993. The only way I can vote is to stop going and telling them why when they call and ask why we did not renew our season tickets.
Rachmaninoff leaves me cold although Prokofiev is tolerable much of the time. There's another Russian composer, Alexander Glazounov who I generally enjoy and Shostakovitch's 7th Symphony is very good. I think the Party kept them in line and didn't let them get as decadent as the west.
I have stopped going to the local symphony because they insist upon pairing something wonderful, like Beethoven's 7th, with some 21st century piece of shit like "Sonata for Chain Saw and Coffee Grinder," by Kutcherkockoff who was born in 1993. The only way I can vote is to stop going and telling them why when they call and ask why we did not renew our season tickets.