Posted by Chuck Jackson on September 10, 2003 at 23:48:51:
In Reply to: orchestral snobbery? posted by JacksonesqueQuestion on September 10, 2003 at 23:40:56:
Because it's considered, WRONGLY, to be "Pops" music. It's a shame, because the piece is flat-out hard. Two more for your consideration:
Respighi: Church Windows-stupid hard and loud
Prkofiev 6th- Yeah, I can imagine a bunch of folks losing their collective lunches playing the slow section of the first movement in time and in tune.
Revueltas- I know, I said two, but sooner or later someone is going to smarten up and start asking the Garcia-Lorca excerpt. Norm Pearson will have ruined it for everyone with his recording with the LA New Music Group.
Berg- I can't count. Anything from "Wozzeck". Really stupid hard, high, low, fast, loud, makes Ride and Prokofiev 5 look like a beginners book.
Just be glad no one has ever written a tuba part like the trombone part to Xennakis' "Eonta". Probably the most ridiculous thing I have ever seen. And it has shown up from time-to-time on major bone lists.
Chuck