Shortly after 9/11, and very definitely as a personal response to that event, I wrote an article about Requiems for Cdnow, where I worked at the time (just a few blocks away from Ground Zero; fortunately our workday started at 10 Am, so I wasn't there yet that day, but in the weeks that followed there were days where, if the wind came from the wrong direction, we would go home early, it made us so sick). In the years since, I have written about music composed in response to that tragedy, such as John Adams's On the Transmigration of Souls. But now I find myself being drawn back to the Requiem idea. Here's a much-expanded take on it.
This roughly chronological list confines itself to works with a sacred basis, though the 20th century yielded secular Requiems, most notably Paul Hindemith's When Lilacs Last in the Door-yard Bloom...
This roughly chronological list confines itself to works with a sacred basis, though the 20th century yielded secular Requiems, most notably Paul Hindemith's When Lilacs Last in the Door-yard Bloom...
- 9/11/2012
- by SteveHoltje
- www.culturecatch.com
"Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery" might be one of the most overused mantras you can find, but sometimes you wonder whether that is truly all there is to it, particularly when it comes to the Korean mainstream's peculiar relationship with American TV series - in itself a sort of by-product of their approach towards Hollywood blockbusters. No, this is not going to be a diatribe on the cultural imperialism of the good old Californian behemoth and its small screen brethren, since copious amounts of American TV on your screen is pretty much a foregone conclusion by now, whether you live in Stockholm, Yokohama or Bishkek. A discussion on how different countries and cultures favor different genres over others would also be pretty intriguing (such as the Koreans' age-old indifference towards anything sci-fi, as for instance I don't believe the pajama-wearing shenanigans of one Jean Luc Picard ever made...
- 12/18/2009
- Screen Anarchy
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