Comments on: Laughing at Tchaikovsky http://jccombs.com/2008/11/20/laughing-at-tchaikovsky/ composer, sound artist, phonographer Sun, 20 Nov 2011 07:45:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: J.C. Combs http://jccombs.com/2008/11/20/laughing-at-tchaikovsky/#comment-237 Thu, 04 Dec 2008 20:11:49 +0000 http://jamescombs.wordpress.com/?p=508#comment-237 Yes that’s very true. He complained of it not having beauty and that it was merely loud. Although it was somewhat of a trend to badmouth your own works at the time, I believe he disliked many of his works (his piano solo works as well).

I like that concept for a novel!

]]> By: Robert Bonotto http://jccombs.com/2008/11/20/laughing-at-tchaikovsky/#comment-234 Wed, 03 Dec 2008 21:21:06 +0000 http://jamescombs.wordpress.com/?p=508#comment-234 Actually, Tchaik didn’t think a lot of the piece while he was writing it, if you look at his letters. (He thought rather more of “Iolanta” which I think he was writing at the time.)

I’ve always been irritated by this piece, mainly because iI think the last movement of Ives’ 2nd would be ten times better for Fourth of July fireworks — particularly the end; my classical music mystery novel (it’s on my website –plugplug) has the conductor leading it while terrified that a murderer will shoot him at an outdoors concert.

]]> By: Ren B http://jccombs.com/2008/11/20/laughing-at-tchaikovsky/#comment-230 Fri, 21 Nov 2008 20:39:56 +0000 http://jamescombs.wordpress.com/?p=508#comment-230 Okay, so maybe I’m too influenceable but anyway… just brought the Overture out of the shadows here. I’ll give it a listen (or two… or ten) right now! Can’t resist not listening some piece of music after reading about it… I wonder why.

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