April 19, 2025
Athens, GR 14 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 …

New Year, new tubist

New Year, new tubist

Meet Chloe Higgins. She has just won the principal tuba seat in the West Australian Symphony Orchestra, in Perth. Blow the winds, southerly. The post New Year, new tubist appeared first on Slippedisc.

Brussels winner gets Paris job

Brussels winner gets Paris job

The Orchestre de Paris has chosen Stéphanie Huang as principal cellist, it is reported in Brussels. The Belgian cellist, 28, audience favourite in the 2022 Queen Elisabeth competition, also starts as guest professor at the […]