Ok...back at the symphony...just watched Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s Hiawatha followed by Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. You expect rhythm from Hiawatha because of the meter of Longfellow’s poem, but Taylor gives us melody, peak classical sensibility as opposed to the rhythms of Jazz. Then the rhythm comes in at Gershwin. Nature vs. the city and all that. This is doing woke right. The audience for this is mostly white.
Ok...back at the symphony...just watched Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s Hiawatha followed by Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. You expect rhythm from Hiawatha because of the meter of Longfellow’s poem, but Taylor gives us melody, peak classical sensibility as opposed to the rhythms of Jazz. Then the rhythm comes in at Gershwin. Nature vs. the city and all that. This is doing woke right. The audience for this is mostly white.
Ooooh! Hiawatha is great. Samuel Coleridge Taylor is a wildly underrated composer.