[school-discuss] etc ... 1-24-2003 broadcast program

[mike eschman <meschman@etc-edu.com>]

NOTE : All book readings are COMPLETE readings.

Program : 

Channel 1 : 

Dracula.
Reanimator.
Schoenberg -Transfigured Night.
Schoenberg - Pelleas and Melisande.
Tchaikovsky - Manfred Symphony.
Tchaikovsky - Symphony # 4.
Stravinsky - The Rite of Spring.

Channel 2 :

The Hound of the Baskervilles.
The House of the Seven Gables.
Schumann Symphonies.
Brahms Piano Concertos.

Channel 3 :

C.S. Lewis - The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.
Glenn Gould, J. S. Bach - Partitas.

Schoenberg's early music was clearly marked by the style of the late 
nineteenth century, and influences of Brahms, Mahler and others can be seen 
in pieces such as his Verklärte Nacht. But as his compositional style 
developed, it became more concise and contrapuntally intricate. At the same 
time, Schoenberg's chromaticism intensified to the point that any strong 
tonal focus disappeared. Such works as Pierrot lunaire are in a fully atonal 
style. The music of this period is also marked by a style that is referred to 
as expressionist, and Schoenberg had contact with, and a great deal of 
admiration for, the expressionist painters and writers (Schoenberg himself 
painted in an expressionist style). These ideals can be seen in the dark and 
dreamlike atmosphere conveyed in Pierrot lunaire, based on the expressionist 
poetry of Albert Giraud. The kinds of internal conflicts we associate with 
Freud and his school of psychoanalysis are played out in exquisite musical 
detail.

Glenn Gould's philosophy and the core of his identity were most clearly 
revealed in his broadcast/recording The Idea of North. To him, the North 
represented solitude, independence, reasonableness, courage, elusiveness, 
spirituality, strength of character, adherence to laws, moral rectitude, and 
peace. He was uncomfortable with the Mediterranean temperament that manifests 
itself in bright colors, displays of passion, and personal display. 
As with so much of Salem, witchcraft is woven into both the life of the author 
and the fiction of the Seven Gables. Nathaniel Hawthorne was born on July 4, 
1804 in Salem, Massachusetts, the descendent of a long line of Puritan 
ancestors, including a presiding magistrate in the Salem witch trials. In the 
novel, the Seven Gables is built by a greedy Colonel Pyncheon on land 
ill-gotten from a villager. This villager, Matthew Maule, has the local 
reputation of being a wizard. To acquire the land for the Seven Gables, 
Pyncheon has the unfortunate Matthew Maule tried and executed for witchcraft. 
He then constructs the imposing mansion, setting the stage for his own 
untimely death and a curse that plagues his descendants.

The blend of mystery, romance and awe remain to this day in the real Seven 
Gables. Various special events throughout the year promote history and 
mystery of the house, including tours offered in October in which visitors 
explore the mansion's shadowy rooms and encounter characters from the novel, 
including the bewitched Alice Pyncheon and the ghost of Matthew Maule.

Enjoy!

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