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

[robinlandseadel at comcast.net]

Good squeeks, both.
Doubtless Stravinsky figures, in a coded way, in a lot
of TRP's writings. There's the incident OBA spun [span?]
off of the Rite of Spring in V. notably reprised and apologized
for in AtD, quite near the end in fact as if to say: "Sorry about 
all those crappy Fag Jokes, promise to never do it again, 
I swear."

Mind you, there's a deep link twixt Bulgarian vocal music and
Orpheus and Pynchon does seem to keep revolving around
a number of circa 0 a.d. sources/cross references.

Certainly, an element of chaos entered into the "Classical Music Scene"
around this time, forcing the aura of the intelligensia 
[Milton Babbit anyone?] onto what was once a more 
mindless pleasure [Offenbach, anyone?], one of those 
Rubicons Our Beloved Author, much like the reclusive, 
cranky R. Crumb, likes to point to, those halcyon days 
when music performed in the parlor was the rule, and 
other Hallmark postmark moments that would never 
happen in a Philip K. Dick novel and rarely in real life.

A lot of the music references point to all these songcatchers
like Bartok and Vaaughan-Williams, gathering these old songs 
in old modes while they still can, somehow knowing that
there's a very good chance they may soon become lost in 
the waste and the noise and the chaos. 
 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: David Payne <dpayne1912 at hotmail.com>
> 
> 1908: the Tunguska event
> 
> 1910: Stravinski's _Firebird Suite_
> 
> "In Russian folklore, the Firebird (æàð-ïòèöà, zhar-ptitsa, literally heat 
bird 
> from ïòèöà bird Old Russian æàð 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…).
> >
> > A more whimsical suggestion for the death of Balkan music in the "Belgin 
> Congo" of 1910 is ... _Tamburitza! - Hot String Band Music From The Balkans To 
> America 1910-1950_
> >
> > On Sat, 31 May 2008 (01:53:53 +0000), Robin (robinlandseadel at comcast.net) 
> wrote:
> >
> >> Of course it's a dark vision, ever heard any Schoenberg?
> >>
> >> Don't forget that this thread extends into GR. I'm voting for Rossini. 
> myself.
> 
> >> -------------- Original message ----------------------
> >> From: David Payne
> >>>
> >>> So -- 1910 as the advent of modernism?
> 
> Rossini?!? Wha? Shades of Byron the Light Bulb?
> 
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