March 29, 2025
Athens, GR 18 C
Expand search form
Blog

The music we love to hate

The music we love to hate

Anything that rouses us to love can also provoke the opposite condition. Music is no exception. There are works we detest almost as much as many others we adore. I am interested in why we loathe them.

Here’s a sampling of the music I hate:

1 Parsifal – when it keeps returning to D major or goes ultra-mod (pic)
2 Almost anything by palindromic Max Reger
3 The Beatles infantile #1 Please Please Me
4 Most of Delius, especially the Mass of Life
5 Tippett’s The Knot Garden
6 German-facing French symphonies – Gounod, Magnard, Chausson
7 Time-wasting American symphonies – Piston, William Schuman, Hovhaness
8 Boy bands, girl bands, the Spice Girls
9 Bob Dylan’s Saved album
10 Mozart’s Ave Verum Corpus

What’s yours?

The post The music we love to hate appeared first on Slippedisc.

Previous Article

Porsche founds a British orchestra

Next Article

Russian wins Mitropoulous

You might be interested in …

UK conductor dies, 93

UK conductor dies, 93

Michael Graubart, who came to England as an eight year-old refugee from Nazi Vienna, has died after a long life of service to music and education. After first studying physics and working as an engineer […]

David Pountney to revive Penderecki opera

David Pountney to revive Penderecki opera

Polish National Opera will include Penderecki’s The Black Mask as one of four new productions next season. The director is the British opera chief Sir David Pountney, whose championing of Weinberg’s The Passenger has earned […]