Programmatoelichting 'Anachronie I'
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Program notes 'Anachronie I'
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Programmatoelichting 'Anachronie I'
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Elmer Schönberger
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Duration: 13'<br/>For: orchestra<br/>Commissioned by BUMA Culture Fund<br/><br/>"Dedicated to the memory of Charles Ives, one of the few composers that found music more interesting than themselves"<br/><br/>The stylistic collages hiding behind the titles Anachronie I and II are certainly compositionally anachronistic, in the sense of being out of harmony with the modernist concept of musical progress, but as an expression of the anti-dogmatic, anti-exclusive spirit of the 1960’s, anachronistic they certainly are not. <br/>At the time, the composer called his Anachronie I 'a reflection of the musical reality of our times'. A remote control reality, we might say today. In this composition it is as though we are simultaneously zapping our way through the collected stations of different tuners. The zapper's taste decides which stations we stick with.<br/>That is why Andriessen's "Barbarber* box", published in 1969 with poet J. Bernlef by Querido under the title Souvenirs d'enfance, contains a batch of unidentified fragments of Stravinsky, and that is why Anachronie I doesn't sound like Wagner or Schönberg but rather like Roussel, Milhaud and Italian song-festival music. For that matter, the content of such collages is - unintentionally - more quiz-show than reality. And while the Andriessen quiz has forgotten about the prizes it has also withheld from us a synopsis of the sources plundered for its material, with the sole exception of César Franck's String Quartet that in Anachronie I appears, however well-concealed, arranged for electronic organ.<br/><br/>Elmer Schönberger *Barbarber: Dutch literary journal, 1958-1971<br/>
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