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re: For some reason, I thought you had heard it...

Posted by:	garyd 01:05 pm EDT 03/17/14
In reply to:	re: For some reason, I thought you had heard it... - AlanScott 06:41 pm EDT 03/16/14

I think I posted the webcast but I could be wrong. Others may have as well. The main reason for the trip was to visit my son and his family but we timed this one to specifically coincide with the premier of the opera. The score seems to emphasize the inevitable doom of the characters, their situation, the oppressive nature of the society in which they live and the ever present danger to them posed by that society and the physical environment. While appropriate, it does so at the expense of allowing the audience to “feel” or experience the romance that is kindled during the idyll on the mountain. While Ennis and Jack do not necessarily recognize this, ,the audience should (and does in both the novella and the film). The score also misses the opportunity to musicalize some of Proulx’s exquisite imagery from the novella. I think this is a mistake. I try, not always successfully, to not criticize that which I do not understand so I am always a bit reticent to voice an opinion about atonal, serial, twelve tone, composition. However, most of it strikes me as an esoteric exercise in fractals and mathematical theory. My problem due to my ignorance I suppose.

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