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Sunday, September 16, 2007

Saxophone plus with Gerard McChrystal

On Saturday evening we went to London's Wigmore Hall to see a saxophone special featuring Gerard McChrystal, supported by Mary Dullea & Tom Blach (pianos), the Smith String Quartet and Craig Ogden (guitar). Unfortunately for us, the programme included several world and UK premieres; otherwise known as modern or contemporary music, i.e. not to our taste. We only liked the pieces by dead composers. What does this say about us; old-fashioned, musically naieve, perhaps, but we need both melody and rhythm before we consider a piece to be music. This applies to popular music (rap has no melody), jazz (contemporary jazz loses the melody after a few bars) and serious music (modern pieces having neither melody nor rhythm).

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