Jazz Archives ~ The Imaginative Conservative

Postmodern Music: Groans Wrapped in Mathematics

By Roger Scruton|2016-06-17T14:50:23-05:00June 16th, 2016|

Arnold Schoenberg In Gurrelieder, Verklärte Nacht, and Pelléas et Mélisandes, Arnold Schoenberg showed total mastery of tonality and of late romantic harmony, and these great works entered the repertoire. But by the time of the Piano Pieces, op. 11, Schoenberg was writing music which to many people no longer made sense, with melodic lines [...]

Conservative Jazz?

By Stephen Masty|2014-01-24T11:38:02-05:00September 26th, 2011|

Do conservatives like jazz? Moreover, should conservatives like jazz (after all, there’s that, ugh, innovation stuff)? Conservative great, the late Ralph de Toledano, is far better known worldwide as an influential and early jazz critic. He used to tell me how he and Thomas Merton haunted New York jazz joints in the late 1930s [...]