WAYLTL: Barber's Medea (All Three Versions)

[@BryanHalo123]

"The music formally known as Classical" is the nickname for today's Deutsche Gramophone.

[@DavesClassicalGuide]

LOL!

[@Carlito_Sway]

Funny to hear your comments about programming Medea for figure skaters- Medea has proved hugely popular as a selection for competitive drum corps and high school marching bands, following its use in the then-controversial, now-landmark Star of Indiana drum corps' 1993 program. At the time, the use of Medea's Meditation and Dance of Vengeance on the field was unprecedented and avant-garde, but the program was passionate and performed with undeniable intensity and nuance. For a lot of us bandos out there, drum corps was our introduction to so much fantastic classical music!

[@DavesClassicalGuide]

Indeed it was!

[@mgconlan]

I thought you were a bit unfair to "Knoxville: Summer of 1915," denouncing it as somehow inauthentic because Samuel Barber actually grew up in Pennsylvania. But the work is a setting of a text by James Agee, who really DID grow up in Knoxville.

[@DavesClassicalGuide]

Please acquire a sense of humor. It will do you good.

[@JPFalcononor]

The recent compositions you have mentioned, A Hand of Bridge and Jerome Moross' Frankie and Johnny, would serve well for a dysfunctional family concert with Trouble in Tahiti as the second half finisher.

[@DavesClassicalGuide]

You're so right!

[@aaronrabushka2180]

It's a tribute to Barber's versatility that he's so convincing in both the rose-colored "Knoxville" and the crass interactions of the bridge game.

[@richfarmer3478]

When you mentioned one thing on disc you really didn't like I knew it'd be Knoxville, remembering your choosing it for Barber's one chararistic work despite your strong distaste for it

[@rogergersbach3300]

WAYLTL just listening to early Shostakovich film music "The Golden Mountains" suite, a mile away from Barber's Medea...

[@richardfrankel6102]

"Medea's Rhumba Of Vengeance". Hee!

[@jesus-of-cheeses]

Please do a whole video in your Russian choreographer voice!

[@LyleFrancisDelp]

OK, that single quote you just read on their own CD packaging makes me unlikely to EVER buy a single one of their recordings. Hard pass on my end. I despise pretense in music (pretension? Pretenciousness? Pretencisosity?)

[@AlexMadorsky]

The statement is rather pretentious, but more to the point as Dave says, what else are you going to call classical music? No one’s come up with a replacement name as far as I’m aware. I get that there’s always been some confusion considering there is a Classical era in classical music, where the name came from originally, and there are also classicists and neo-classicists within classical music. So, the knot gets tangled quickly, but we have to have some kind of a name for this stuff.

[@steveschwartz8944]

You're then missing out on a lot of interesting music. BMOP tackles wonderful little-known scores in fine performances and sound.

[@LyleFrancisDelp]

@@steveschwartz8944 Whatever. I have plenty to satisfy my ears.

[@bloodgrss]

So, why are you listening to Dave?

[@LyleFrancisDelp]

@@bloodgrss What a stupid thing to ask.