ATDTDA (33) - pregnancy in Bulgaria or "The Emancipation of Dissonance"

[Henry]

I'd forgotten the 1910 Firebird! (Before my time.  Really!  Paul?) As far as music dying, Firebird is no Rite of Spring, but for some people (young and old) who otherwise love music, it's still bad enough.  For me, that's what OBA was referring to.  I don't think it has anything to do with The "1910 Fruitgum Company," a group whose music helped define "bubblegum music," http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1910_Fruitgum_Company .

As far as saying "music died," for me that’s a simple conflation of the 1910 Firebird with Don McLean's song "American Pie." People loved to decipher the 60's music references when it hit the air waves in '72.

http://www.don-mclean.com/americanpie.asp  
http://www.rareexception.com/Garden/American.php 

Speaking of Bulgarian dissonance, gonna see the Les Voix Mystiques... with Bobby McFerrin, Ladysmith Black Mombasa, Sweet Honey in the Rock (during I'll take a break), and a few others at the Kennedy Center tonight.

HENRY MUSIKAR
Information, Media, and Technology Consultant

http://www.urdomain.us/scuffling.htm 


From: Bekah
Sent: Saturday, May 31, 2008 9:14 PM

Which leads into Stravinsky's Rite of Spring - virgins and all.   He had the idea in 1910 but it wasn't on stage until 1913 when it about caused a riot.  I don't know if anyone said the music died but they did say later that it was a foreshadowing of WWI.  

Bekah

On May 30, 2008, at 11:05 PM, David Payne wrote:

1908: the Tunguska event

1910: Stravinski's _Firebird Suite_

"In Russian folklore, the Firebird (жар-птица, zhar-ptitsa, literally heat bird from птица bird Old Russian жар heat) is a magical glowing bird from a faraway land, which is both a blessing and bringer of doom to its captor" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firebird_%28Russian_folklore%29).

Earlier I squeaked: 

Personally, I prefer Stravinsky, whose 1910 _Firebird_ probably felt equally alien to the Balkan traditionalist of the time (assuming, silly-ly perhaps, there were such a thing…).

<snip>