{"id":22,"date":"2006-07-04T16:33:30","date_gmt":"2006-07-04T23:33:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.leipzig48.com\/blog2\/?p=22"},"modified":"2007-01-23T07:34:36","modified_gmt":"2007-01-23T14:34:36","slug":"anton-webern-five-pieces-for-orchestra-opus-10-performed-by-pierre-boulez-and-the-berlin-philharmonic-orchestra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.leipzig48.com\/blog2\/?p=22","title":{"rendered":"Anton Webern, <i>Five Pieces for Orchestra<\/i>, Opus 10.  Performed by Pierre Boulez and the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the things I liked about this work (and I liked this work a lot) is that it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s very short and very quiet.  I burned all the pieces for this assignment onto CD and would listen to them both at home and in the car.  Now, when a piece is fairly long, as are some of the other works on this CD, your attention can drift.  It doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t really matter (or at least that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s what you think), if your attention wanders for a few seconds.  However, if your attention wanders even for a few seconds during one of <i>Five Pieces<\/i>, you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve missed half the piece!  So, I would always pay especially close attention when <i>Five Pieces<\/i> was playing (this was also due to the fact that they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re so soft for the most part).  Sometimes you think a short piece cannot be as \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcimportant\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 as longer pieces, but I think <i>Five Pieces<\/i> belies that idea.  Actually, shortness is another thing I like about Satie\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s compositions (besides the fact that they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re brilliant).  It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s also what I like about that thing Paul McCartney sings on that short, untitled fragment on <i>The White Album<\/i>.  The one that goes, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Can you take me back where I came from? Can you take me back?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d.  (In McCartney\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s case, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a throwaway, but yet it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/phobos.apple.com\/WebObjects\/MZStore.woa\/wa\/viewArtist?id=4357909\"><br \/>\n  <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"15\" width=\"61\" alt=\"Pierre Boulez\" src=\"http:\/\/ax.phobos.apple.com.edgesuite.net\/images\/badgeitunes61x15dark.gif\"\/>Download Pierre Boulez<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the things I liked about this work (and I liked this work a lot) is that it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s very short and very quiet. I burned all the pieces for this assignment onto CD and would listen to them both at home and in the car. Now, when a piece is fairly long, as are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.leipzig48.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.leipzig48.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.leipzig48.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.leipzig48.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.leipzig48.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.leipzig48.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.leipzig48.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.leipzig48.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.leipzig48.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}