Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Unavailable
    Mr Modernsky: How Stravinsky Survived Schoenberg: How Stravinsky Survived Schoenberg
    Unavailable
    Mr Modernsky: How Stravinsky Survived Schoenberg: How Stravinsky Survived Schoenberg
    Unavailable
    Mr Modernsky: How Stravinsky Survived Schoenberg: How Stravinsky Survived Schoenberg
    Ebook56 pages1 hour

    Mr Modernsky: How Stravinsky Survived Schoenberg: How Stravinsky Survived Schoenberg

    By Meredith Oakes

    ()

    Currently unavailable

    Currently unavailable

    About this ebook

    Mr Modernsky tells a story about two heavyweights of twentieth-century classical music: Igor Stravinsky and Arnold Schoenberg.It traces the gradual change there has been in the way these two great rivals are perceived, looks in their music for the reasons and reflects on the nature of modernity in art and the sometimes pernicious effects of ideology. Meredith Oakes explores the tension between futuristic and historical elements in the work of these parallel artists and asks: is modernity merely about technical innovation? Must progress always mean exclusion of the past?

    '...a personal reflection on Oakes’s own changing attitude to music...the discussion of Wagner’s technique and its relevance to Schoenberg in the same section is so absorbing that the reader is carried along. It’s notoriously difficult to write about what music sounds like, but Oakes has some delightful turns of phrase.' Classical Music Magazine

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOberon Books
    Release dateJun 18, 2012
    ISBN9781849433754
    Unavailable
    Mr Modernsky: How Stravinsky Survived Schoenberg: How Stravinsky Survived Schoenberg
    Author

    Meredith Oakes

    Meredith Oakes' first play, The Neighbour, was produced at the Royal National Theatre, London in 1992, and is published by Oberon Books.

    Related to Mr Modernsky

    Related ebooks

    Music For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Why Modernists Can Be Monarchists

      Mar 30, 2023

      WHEN, IN 1951, IGOR STRAVINSKY and his wife Vera took tea with the Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia, his biographer Robert Craft was present, and he was not impressed. Stravinsky bowed deeply; Vera curtsied, and — as Craft noticed, bewildered —

      7 min read

    • Article

      Raising The Tone

      Jun 4, 2021

      Raising The Tone
      2 min read

    • Article

      Timothy Vernon + Jordan de Souza

      Nov 6, 2020

      JORDAN DE SOUZA: What was it like to discover Vienna as a young person in the 60s and 70s? TIMOTHY VERNON: When I arrived to begin my studies in Vienna in 1965, the Staatsvertrag, which created the Second Austrian Republic, was only 10 years old. Wor

      7 min read

    • Article

      “Critical Space” Is Shrinking But We Are Fighting Back

      Apr 25, 2024

      WHAT CRETIN SAID THAT NOBODY EVER erected a monument to a critic? (I’ll tell you: it was that lugubrious drunk Jean Sibelius). Actually, he could simply have added “at least, not in a good way”. It’s a monument made of vibrating air rather than marbl

      6 min read

    • Article

      Peter Tyndall

      Mar 1, 2023

      Peter Tyndall
      8 min read

    • Article

      He Was An Architect

      Dec 22, 2020

      He Was An Architect
      11 min read

    • Article

      20 Questions with Paul Yore

      Sep 1, 2022

      20 Questions with Paul Yore
      5 min read

    • Article

      Come All Ye!

      Mar 18, 2021

      RICHARD THOMPSON: THE ’60 and ’70s continue to be musically of great interest to people. Although we thought it was very ordinary at the time, it does turn out to have been an exceptional period – a great musical crossroads. I thought I’d just chuck

      14 min read

    • Article

      The Schlock Of The New

      Sep 22, 2021

      Have you noticed that, as a group, prophets tend to be a grumpy lot? From Jeremiah, Ezekiel and Isaiah, right down to Carlyle, Ruskin, Spengler and beyond: gloominess and bad weather as far as the eye can see. There are many reasons for this, beginni

      3 min read

    • Article

      Richard Morrison

      Jan 21, 2021

      I guess I’m not the only one searching metaphorically for a rudder, a compass, a fair wind and a seaworthy vessel to get me through 2021. The turmoil inflicted by COVID has cast doubt on all certainties – including, for musicians, the certainties of

      3 min read

    • Article

      What's Composer Max Richter Listening To? Pretty Much Everything

      Apr 5, 2017

      The genre-busting composer, who believes in classical music's "multi-dimensional space," brings a strikingly diverse playlist with him for a relaxed session of spinning tunes and talking music.

      10 min read

    • Article

      Thurston Moore Looks Back on 30 Years of Sonic Youth

      Nov 14, 2023

      "I’ve always been very engaged with literature, but it's never had the profile of what I do with music, obviously." The post Thurston Moore Looks Back on 30 Years of Sonic Youth appeared first on The Millions.

      5 min read

    • Article

      Shostakovich in South Dakota

      Sep 1, 2023

      Shostakovich in South Dakota
      23 min read

    • Article

      How A Classical Pianist Reinvents Herself In Major And Minor Ways

      Sep 21, 2023

      How do you get to Carnegie Hall? Practice, practice, practice. In the case of classical pianist Simone Dinnerstein, you also spend thousands of dollars to rent a recital space at the famous landmark and invite classical music critics to your performa

      4 min read

    Reviews for Mr Modernsky

    0 ratings

    0 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words