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We’re talking about the music we play. This is the official repertoire blog of the musicians of the Oregon Symphony.- Bartok, Music for Strings, Percussion & Celeste
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This is one of the cornerstones of the early 20th century canon. Virtuosic writing is in evidence at every turn for the strings (divided into two separate orchestras). The atmospheric slow movement was used to exquisitely creepy effect in Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining”. Guaranteed to make chills run down your spine!
- Charles Noble
September 1st, 2007If you have studied music in college, you’ve probably studied Bartok’s Music for String, Percussion & Celeste. It is to music what, say, the Guggenheim Museum in New York City is to architecture. Bartok’s structural design is so aligned with it’s modern sense of sound that it is stunning from every angle–without having any angles, in a sense, because each section references what comes before it and after.
- Jonathan Dubay
September 1st, 2007
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