Send us a text Description Music After World War I: Art in a Shattered World in 60 Seconds. Take a minute to get the scoop! Fun Fact In 1918, Erik Satie described postwar music as needing “fewer perfumes and more reality.” Many composers shared this sentiment, favoring sharp edges and transparency over lush emotion. Audiences weren’t always thrilled—but history proved these reactions marked the birth of modern music, not its collapse. About Steven, Host Steven is a Canadian composer & a...
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Send us a text Description Music After World War I: Art in a Shattered World in 60 Seconds. Take a minute to get the scoop! Fun Fact In 1918, Erik Satie described postwar music as needing “fewer perfumes and more reality.” Many composers shared this sentiment, favoring sharp edges and transparency over lush emotion. Audiences weren’t always thrilled—but history proved these reactions marked the birth of modern music, not its collapse. About Steven, Host Steven is a Canadian composer & a...
The Pulse Redefined: Rhythmic Complexity in 20th-Century Music
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The Pulse Redefined: Rhythmic Complexity in 20th-Century Music
Send us a text Description The Pulse Redefined: Rhythmic Complexity in 20th-Century Music in 60 Seconds. Take a minute to get the scoop! Fun Fact When The Rite of Spring premiered in Paris, 1913, its jarring rhythms helped cause a near riot. Audience members shouted, booed, and even fought. A century later, the same rhythms are considered masterpieces of modernity—proof that innovation often sounds like chaos before it becomes art. About Steven, Host Steven is a Canadian composer & actor...
The Classical Music Minute
Send us a text Description Music After World War I: Art in a Shattered World in 60 Seconds. Take a minute to get the scoop! Fun Fact In 1918, Erik Satie described postwar music as needing “fewer perfumes and more reality.” Many composers shared this sentiment, favoring sharp edges and transparency over lush emotion. Audiences weren’t always thrilled—but history proved these reactions marked the birth of modern music, not its collapse. About Steven, Host Steven is a Canadian composer & a...
