Bing
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Originally posted by AbsntMndedProf: Bing posted: Then how about Holst's Mars music? If this isn't war music then I don't know what is.
Interestingly enough, Holst finished Mars; Bringer of War, and it was first performed in the same year that the First World War broke out, 1914.
Eric Maietta
No, Drex posted the above quote concerning Holst's Mars, Bringer of War(from his Planets suite).
I think many discerning people saw a major conflict in the making in 1914 and before. I did research on that some years ago - a lot of research, matter of fact. I came to a simple conclusion: Europeans wanted their dirty war, they wanted it pretty badly despite all the talk to the contrary. They were aching to start one - I also came away from the research convinced that if Germany had not marched first, it could as easily have been France. Just a sidebar and no, I don't know how that got into a discussion of war movie music.
Oh ... someone wrote that I revealed a background in "classical" music. I don't classify it that way. Many great musicians, including Verdi and Debussey, have said there are only two kinds of music: Good and bad. Charbrier made a great joke on that statement, but you kinda have to know composers and eras to get it.
This really IS drifting off topic, so I will cut that out right now.
Bing
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