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The Final Chorale. Juxtapositions, 3. DVD. Based on Symphonies d'instruments a vent by Igor Stravinsky and Funf Orchesterstucke op. 16 by Arnold Schoenberg. Directed by Frank Scheffer. [Paris]: Ideale Audience International, 2005. DVD9DS13. $28.99.
Arvo Part--24 Preludes for a Fugue. Juxtapositions, 4. DVD. Directed by Dorian Supin. [Paris]: Ideale Audience International, 2005. DVD9DS09. $28.99.
In the program booklet accompanying his remarkable films, Frank Scheffer likens music history to a river that flowed into the twentieth century, branched when it encountered Arnold Schoenberg and Igor Stravinsky, and became a delta of styles and practices after World War II. It is a familiar and almost cliched metaphor, used in countless classrooms and textbooks, but a useful one given the pairing of films in this third release in Ideale Audience International's Juxtapositions series.
The Juxtapositions series is dedicated to exploring contemporary music through the marriage of film and music. It follows Serge Eisenstein's dictum that when two shots are edited together...
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