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- Title: Ah, Wilderness (Sibelius) (Critical Essay)
- Author : Modern Age
- Release Date : January 01, 2009
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,Reference,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 52 KB
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Sibelius by Andrew Barnett (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2007) Music lovers today have certain consolations not available three decades ago, even if we do have to share the planet with Britney Spears and 50 Cent. For one thing, we need no longer feel remotely apologetic about defending four late-Romantic giants: Sibelius, Elgar, Puccini, and Rachmaninoff. All four, and Sibelius in particular, have inspired during recent years quantities of serious research that even in the early 1970s would have been unimaginable. Given this newfound critical respect, the abrupt dismissals that Sibelius once inspired from fashion-conscious (and less fashion-conscious but still squeamish) pundits in America, above all, make in retrospect for a surreal experience. Paul Henry Lang, the Hungarian-born Columbia University professor, made precisely one reference to Sibelius (and that decidedly hostile) in the 1,107 pages of his almost unbelievably erudite 1941 survey Music in Western Civilization. A year earlier, and inhabiting a far lower intellectual level than Lang occupied, Virgil Thomson--the New York Herald Tribune journalist and apparatchik--found himself provoked by Sibelius's Second Symphony into argumentum ad verecundiam mode:
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