Arthur Fuller
fuller.artful at gmail.com
Sun Dec 14 10:26:57 CST 2014
Just one of the uses to which I might put such a program would be to assemble (via MediaMonkey or some equivalent) playlists consisting of just one piece -- say, all instances of "Martha My Dear" or "The Rite of Spring" so as to be able to play them back to back, to compare and contrast. For my money, the definitive version of The Rite was performed by the Columbia Symphony Orchestra and conducted by Igor himself. Most other versions seem lame by comparison, and oddly enough, one of the most lame was conducted by Pierre Boulez, no stranger to 20th century music, but he seemed to have missed the nail here. We all have our off-days, alas.