Brahmgneriana

[i.chriss...@gmail.com]

The week following Brahms' birthday and anticipating Wagner's one may be the right moment to promote "Brahmgneriana," a "Camp David" reconciliation of the two composers. As with other specimens of creative musicology, "Brahmgneriana" replaces the museum paradigm of the canon with a pool of musical narratives that the creative mind freely rearranges, creating new associations and hermeneutic possibilities. This approach can help advanced students defamiliarize the canon and thus reconsider it from a fresh perspective.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHmHXDgUdgk

[Mike Scott Rohan]

On Friday, May 17, 2013 5:35:16 AM UTC+1, i.chriss...@gmail.com wrote:
> The week following Brahms' birthday and anticipating Wagner's one may be the right moment to promote "Brahmgneriana," a "Camp David" reconciliation of the two composers. As with other specimens of creative musicology, "Brahmgneriana" replaces the museum paradigm of the canon with a pool of musical narratives that the creative mind freely rearranges, creating new associations and hermeneutic possibilities. This approach can help advanced students defamiliarize the canon and thus reconsider it from a fresh perspective.
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> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHmHXDgUdgk

I think our current productorial school are doing a fine enough job of defamiliarizing the canon already, thank 'ee kindly. Though what you suggest might involve Brahms's fortunately aborted project for an opera about gold-mining in the Yukon -- and it does awaken the imagination regarding all sorts of ways this could be combined with Das Rheingold et seq. But why stop there? On a thematic basis we could then involve Puccini as well, and end up with La Walkiria del West. And then Weill, with Mahagonnydammerung....

Cheers,

Mike