Monday, 30 September 2013

Modern Classical

Originally published 22 April 2010

Speak for yourself, Jones, I like a nice bit of atonal madness now and again. And besides, there a lot of good nicely behaved modern classical out there as well.

Here's a particular favourite of mine, Alan Hovhaness' Mount St Helen's Symphony, the first movement of which takes us on a gentle walk up the slope of the mountain as it was before the cataclysmic eruption of 1980...



This strip was published on a Thursday, so I could crowbar in the following day's time sensitive strip...

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