{"id":1905,"date":"2010-08-14T21:08:15","date_gmt":"2010-08-15T01:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=1905"},"modified":"2018-08-05T23:26:45","modified_gmt":"2018-08-06T03:26:45","slug":"howard-hansons-%e2%80%9cnordic%e2%80%9d-symphony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=1905","title":{"rendered":"Howard Hanson\u2019s \u201cNordic\u201d Symphony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- @page { margin: 2cm } P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm } --><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif;\">Howard Han\u00adson\u2019s sym\u00adphonies lan\u00adguished in rel\u00ada\u00adtive obscu\u00adri\u00adty until, short\u00adly before he died, a move\u00adment of his sec\u00adond sym\u00adpho\u00adny was used by Rid\u00adley Scott for the clos\u00ading cred\u00adits of the film <em>Alien<\/em>.&nbsp;Since then, his music has been in demand. This shows just how acci\u00adden\u00adtal the rise and fall of musi\u00adcal rep\u00adu\u00adta\u00adtions can be. A Swedish-Amer\u00adi\u00adcan from Nebras\u00adka, Han\u00adson com\u00adposed in a rel\u00ada\u00adtive\u00adly tra\u00addi\u00adtion\u00adal style, lit\u00adtle influ\u00adenced by the aca\u00add\u00ade\u00adm\u00adic trends of the 20th cen\u00adtu\u00adry. Musi\u00adcal sophis\u00adti\u00adcates wrote him off as an anachro\u00adnism. A recent book by Wal\u00adter Sim\u00admons that dis\u00adcuss\u00ades his work, as well as that of oth\u00ader \u201cNeo-Roman\u00adtic\u201d Amer\u00adi\u00adcans like Ernst Bloch, Samuel Bar\u00adber, and Paul Cre\u00adston, is apt\u00adly enti\u00adtled <em>Voice in the Wilder\u00adness<\/em>. <!--more--><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif;\">The first sym\u00adpho\u00adny, \u201c<em>Nordic<\/em>\u201d was com\u00adposed in 1922, and is far less well-known than the sec\u00adond or fourth. While it\u2019s cus\u00adtom\u00adary to say that Han\u00adson was influ\u00adenced by Sibelius, there real\u00adly is lit\u00adtle in it that you would trace to that source. Den\u00admark\u2019s Carl Nielsen would be a much bet\u00adter com\u00adpar\u00adi\u00adson. This has some\u00adthing of the feel\u00ading of Nielsen\u2019s \u201c<em>Inex\u00adtin\u00adguish\u00adable<\/em>\u201d sym\u00adpho\u00adny. Worth lis\u00adten\u00ading to, but some\u00adone sam\u00adpling Han\u00adson for the first time should prob\u00ada\u00adbly hear the more dis\u00adci\u00adplined sec\u00adond sym\u00adpho\u00adny&nbsp;first.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Howard Han\u00adson\u2019s sym\u00adphonies lan\u00adguished in rel\u00ada\u00adtive obscu\u00adri\u00adty until, short\u00adly before he died, a move\u00adment of his sec\u00adond sym\u00adpho\u00adny was used by Rid\u00adley Scott for the clos\u00ading cred\u00adits of the film Alien.&nbsp;Since then, his music has been in demand. This&nbsp;shows&nbsp;\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=1905\">Read more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[947,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c-listening","category-cq-listening-2010"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1905"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3360,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1905\/revisions\/3360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}