Recently spent a lot of time listening to The Complete String Quartets by Vagn Holmboe (Decapo 8.207001) .First impressions were of a jumbled mess but after a lot of patient listening I ‘cracked the code’ and now wonder why I found the experience like learning another language. Unfortunately a large number of recent classical compositions make no sense to me after more listens than I care to remember. Sometimes I wonder if they make sense to anybody. Maybe it’s just me? Maybe it’s just that some refuse to admit the emperor really has no clothes?
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