[78-L] Max Steiner, "Symphonie Moderne" [fwd]

[Mike Harkin]

De gustibus....

Or as Abe Lincoln is quoted, "People who like the sort of thing will find this is the sort of thing they will like."  Talk about damning with faint praise!

Mike in Plovdiv

--- On Tue, 7/10/12, DAVID BURNHAM <burnhamd at rogers.com> wrote:

From: DAVID BURNHAM <burnhamd at rogers.com>
Subject: [78-L] Max Steiner, "Symphonie Moderne"
To: "78-L at 78online.com" <78-L at 78online.com>
Date: Tuesday, July 10, 2012, 7:59 AM

I was just listening to an RCA recording of Max Steiner's "Symphonie Moderne", played by the Janssen Symphony of Los Angeles conducted by Werner Janssen.  This record is not too well liked;  I looked it up in both issues of David Hall's "Record Book" that I have and there's nary a mention, similarly there's no listing for it in WERM either.  I googled it and found a Gramophone review of the disc from March of 1944 - a scathing review which treats it as little more than musical trash, and doesn't imply a high opinion of American listeners either, (let me adjust my Maple Leaf).  I will admit that it certainly isn't a masterpiece of classical music but it isn't that bad.  I found nothing offensive about it.  But I guess, saying that, I should come out of the closet;  as much as I enjoy the Symphonies of Mahler, Bruckner and Spohr, I must confess that I also enjoy the Warsaw Concerto and the Cornish Rhapsody.

It's 3:58 AM so I guess I'll go to bed now!

db
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