Sun August 3, 2014
Encounter III: From Exoticism to Folklorism: The Quest for Musical Authenticity, led by Michael Parloff
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at Martin Family Hall, Menlo School
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For eighteenth- and nineteenth-century composers from Haydn to Liszt, Hungarian Gypsy music represented the exotic, non-European world of sensuality and rootlessness, as well as freedom from constricting Western mores. Over time, though, the genre veered toward more caricatured, commercialized forms of musical expression. During the early twentieth century, composer-ethnomusicologists such as Béla Bartók, Zoltán Kodály, and LeoÅ¡ JanáÄek rejected the popularized style hongrois. Armed with Edison phonographs and wax cylinders, they visited the villages of “greater Hungary†in search of a more undiluted style of music making. From this rich soil of indigenous Eastern European peasant music, they developed a synthesis of pure “Eastern†folk idioms and traditional Western musical forms. In the season’s third Encounter, Michael Parloff will explore the progression from the exoticism of the style hongrois to the authenticity of folk-based, modernist musical languages.
Tickets: $45 (full price) | $20 (under age thirty)
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Tickets: $45 (full price) | $20 (under age thirty)
For eighteenth- and nineteenth-century composers from Haydn to Liszt, Hungarian Gypsy music represented the exotic, non-European world of sensuality and rootlessness, as well as freedom from constricting Western mores. Over time, though, the genre veered toward more caricatured, commercialized forms of musical expression. During the early twentieth century, composer-ethnomusicologists such as Béla Bartók, Zoltán Kodály, and LeoÅ¡ JanáÄek rejected the popularized style hongrois. Armed with Edison phonographs and wax cylinders, they visited the villages of “greater Hungary†in search of a more undiluted style of music making. From this rich soil of indigenous Eastern European peasant music, they developed a synthesis of pure “Eastern†folk idioms and traditional Western musical forms. In the season’s third Encounter, Michael Parloff will explore the progression from the exoticism of the style hongrois to the authenticity of folk-based, modernist musical languages.
Tickets: $45 (full price) | $20 (under age thirty)
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Tickets: $45 (full price) | $20 (under age thirty)
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Martin Family Hall, Menlo School
50 Valparaiso Ave, Atherton, CA 94027
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