Kurt Knecht

Lady Gaga v. Mozart v. Gershwin open.substack.com/pub/knecht/p/l…

Concinnity

Scolopendra

Sufi/Christian dialogue with conversation and new art songs for soprano and organ. youtube.com/watch?v=Mg6_Rg…

@dvonkampen @skleppinger @gabrielkahane Tough question. I'll think on it. The trope I have the hardest time with on this question is the i III i for a Kyrie where the Christe goes major. Like Mozart c minor mass. Happy Christ, have mercy.

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@dvonkampen youtu.be/3bz1-U82fac

@kurtknecht Baseball is the beautiful game.

Booooooooooo. Get soccer off baseball fields.

@dvonkampen @huskermaestro @Scott_Strovas @skleppinger That too

@huskermaestro @Scott_Strovas @skleppinger @kurtknecht If Kurt’s done, I’ll just add… too many notes.

Pondering the theological implications of rampant pandiatonicism in contemporary choral sacred works - examples too numerous for 140 characters. @Scott_Strovas @skleppinger @dvonkampen @kurtknecht

@huskermaestro @Scott_Strovas @skleppinger @dvonkampen 4. Almost all of it is agnostic textually. This isn't necessarily a disqualifier. Palestrina, for example, might be subject to the same accusation. But for me, it does represent an attempt to get behind the 19th century without acknowledging it.

@huskermaestro @Scott_Strovas @skleppinger @dvonkampen 3. Plus so much of it is written so badly. It's much more difficult to sing than it has a right to be given the result.

@huskermaestro @Scott_Strovas @skleppinger @dvonkampen And this music always elevates the saccharine over the more problematic aspects of life. (Cf. The almost complete elimination of tragedy from public art.)

@huskermaestro @Scott_Strovas @skleppinger @dvonkampen So, now the aesthetic can comprise more than the simply conventionally "beautiful" or proportional if you want to get more Aristotelian. It can include any and all aspects of life - even the broken and misshapen things can participate in grace and beauty

@huskermaestro @Scott_Strovas @skleppinger @dvonkampen The concern for Peter in the gospels breaking down is the first time in ancient literature where a minor character's (and a poor one) emotional state is given radical significance.

@huskermaestro @Scott_Strovas @skleppinger @dvonkampen 2. I view it as a fundamental rejection of the revolution that Christianity brought to aesthetic philosophy. David Bentley Hart is good on this.

@huskermaestro @Scott_Strovas @skleppinger @dvonkampen This was a spiritual/political/musical ideal that this new music has rejected where subservient, amorphous sonority take precedent over individual freedom.

@huskermaestro @Scott_Strovas @skleppinger @dvonkampen By which I mean roughly the thing beginning with the Carolingian project that eventually came to mean that while we work on things together, the individual should function with independence and freedom.

@huskermaestro @Scott_Strovas @skleppinger @dvonkampen Nor is it simply a more conservative vocabulary like let's say Pärt, but it's music of a fundamentally different aesthetic value system than the Western this we inherited ...

@huskermaestro @Scott_Strovas @skleppinger @dvonkampen 1 the sort of "pandiatonicism" that your referencing is not the Stravinsky kind (where I first encountered the term to describe part of Petrushka)...

@huskermaestro @Scott_Strovas @skleppinger @dvonkampen I have a million thoughts on this. I can try to start in a bit.

Kalistos Ware and Joey DeFrancesco in the same week. Both were giants.