{"id":222,"date":"2006-12-16T13:02:26","date_gmt":"2006-12-16T13:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/2006\/12\/16\/wand-on-bruckner-9\/"},"modified":"2006-12-16T13:04:02","modified_gmt":"2006-12-16T13:04:02","slug":"wand-on-bruckner-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/2006\/12\/16\/wand-on-bruckner-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Wand on Bruckner 9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">From Gunter Wand&#8217;s program note on\u00a0Bruckner 9-\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">\u201cThe greater brusqueness of the Ninth Symphony\u2019s sound world, when compared with that of its predecessors, sometimes creates the impression of a conscious aloofness and results from a greater rigour in the polyphonic part-writing, an aspect of the work that puzzles some listeners on their first encounter with it. It is the expression of an inner truth and withdrawal from the world which, after so many ecstatic visions of otherworldly spendour, is also capable of articulating the most unfathomable dissonance. This terrible scream, in which humanity\u2019s lament at the <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">Paradise<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\"> that is has lost seems to reverberate till the end of time, can find no resolution or release within itself. It is followed by silence, after which the listener turns to the security of faith. Sound seems to disengage itself from matter and between now and the work\u2019s transfigured conclusion, the music\u2019s pulse continues to beat in the certainty of \u201cNON CONFUNDARIN AETERNUM\u201d : \u201cnever let me be put to confusion.\u201d <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">Copyrighted material is excerpted on these page without profit for educational purposes only under the &#8220;fair use&#8221; provisions of applicable copyright law and will be removed on request.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\"> <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0;float:none;height:100px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/2006\/12\/16\/wand-on-bruckner-9\/\" send=\"false\" layout=\"box_count\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"true\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Gunter Wand&#8217;s program note on\u00a0Bruckner 9-\u00a0 \u201cThe greater brusqueness of the Ninth Symphony\u2019s sound world, when compared with that of its predecessors, sometimes creates the impression of a conscious aloofness and results from a greater rigour in the polyphonic part-writing, an aspect of the work that puzzles some listeners on their first encounter with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-opion-life-as-a-performing-musician"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}