ACADEMIC MUSIC VERSUS ENTERTAINING MUSIC IN ROMANIAN WORKS. THE 2ND SYMPHONY BY PASCAL BENTOIU
ACADEMIC MUSIC VERSUS ENTERTAINING MUSIC IN ROMANIAN WORKS. THE 2ND SYMPHONY BY PASCAL BENTOIU

Summary/Abstract: The entrance of jazz in the academic music constituted a challenge for allcomposers interested in this aspect. After George Gershwin’s success with “Rhapsody in blue”, thetendency to introduce entertaining elements in academic works amplified in European culturesthrough Sostakovici, Stravinski or Honneger, and in Romania through Dumitru Bughici, PascalB,Dumitru Capoianu, Richard Oschanitzy. Pascal Bentoiu flirted with jazz which he did not hesitate tointroduce in his creations. One of his representative works in this sense is the 2nd Symphony op. 20from 1974, whose incipit may be comparable from the point of view of accessibility and soundprofoundness to similar fragments from Rhapsody in blue or the 5th Symphony of Beethoven. The workI suggest also presents the composer’s point of view who, by introducing subtly entertaining elements,may sometimes create difficulties in interpretation to the symphonic orchestra of classical style whichthe Symphony is intended for.

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