J: Whoa did you know Berg only lived to be 50?
J: oh and he died on Christmas eve 1935. NOT a Fröhliche Weinachten der Alban.
J: oh so that makes this December 24th the 79th anniversary of his death.
J: I mean 70th
A: haha
J: We should do something.
J: something...not totally tonal
A: Maybe a blog special called "A Very Berg Christams Eve"
A: "Rudolph is a Whore: Christmas with Alban Berg"
J:: hahah
J: OR
J: we could do "The Twelve Days of Berg" and come up with something for each day
A: Ending with the anniversary of his early death...brilliant
J: "On the first day of Alban, my true love gave to me...a whore living in misery"
4 comments:
Maybe I'm stating the obvious, but can't the only gift worth giving or receiving on each of the Twelve Days of Berg be a single pitch of a tone row? Hallmark should do one of those musical cards: open to a holiday greeting and a tune more cacaphonous than my Mexican family's Christmas morning gathering full of the Season's Latest Illegitimate Infants.
nick, i am sitting here giggling like a little schoolgirl.
"on the fourth day of christmas, hanna robettin-fuchs gave to me an a-sharp above the staff"
Oddly enough we used to refer to Anne Sofie von Otter's Christmas album as "An Alban Berg Christmas" because it was so bleak and angst-ridden.
That is delightful. I am glad we all seem to be in agreement regarding the "12 Days of Alban Berg" as a good holiday theme for the blog.
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