Little Love for the Moderns

Little fun with modern classic. I have this theory that the reason all modern classic sounds like Alfred Hitchcock soundtrack has something to do with context. Modernity goal of constructing new structure ends up creating something with no social context. Hence modern atonal works such as Schoenberg's sounds alien. That is the very thing that hollywood horror movie looks for. The result? To the public modern classics all sounds like horror movie soundtrack.

So here is a grandiose idea, let's have fun listening to the moderns by recontextualizing them. Cross your fingers. Below is a short list of my fav pieces. Instead of abstract excercise, let's declare all these pieces to have some stories: functional film music, memory of a friend, exercise of musical composition, and height of pleasure. People and their expressive thoughts. Enjoy.

Phillip Glass - String Quarter No. 3 (Mishima)
Arthur Honegger - Hommage à Ravel
Arnold Schoenberg - Gigue Suite for piano op. 25
John Zorn - Forbidden Fruit

Painting by Kandinsky