jeffw@tekecs.UUCP (Jeff Winslow) (09/18/84)
I've just got to disagree with Rich Rosen so you all know I'm normal, too! (Ha! Ha! Ha!) Seriously, I can think of any number of passages in late Beethoven quartets (I assume Rich meant real "classical" music in this context) that rival or surpass anything Stravinsky wrote in intensity - at least on some days. And that's just it. What seems intense has as much or more to do with the state of the listener than that of the composer. Some days I'll be driven by the Rite, some days by Beethoven's op. 111 piano sonata, some days by Tristan, some days by... incredible, he didn't mention Schoe... Jeff Winslow
mangoe@umcp-cs.UUCP (Charley Wingate) (09/22/84)
Somehow the one piece that I consistently find very intense is Vaugham- William's "Fancy on a Theme by Thomas Tallis". C. Wingate