YOUR question

03/09/2020 Jesse

Hi Trevor.
Thanks for all the tunes over the years. Bungle opened my ears to a lot of different styles of music and I really can’t thank you guys enough.
Anyways, after enjoying many genres and styles of music I’m thinking about diving into Opera. If you’re a fan do you have any recommendations?
I know that’s a fairly generic question - but based on some of the Soundtrack artists such as Mancini/Goldsmith, or John Zorn’s work such as ‘Spillane’ that I have discovered ‘through’ Bungle I’m curious what you would recommend?
Thanks again for all your music.

My answer

I’m not a huge opera fan. I do love Berg’s Wozzeck and Lulu, however. Mostly it’s the style of singing that doesn’t really do it for me. When it comes to classical vocal music some of my favorite pieces are Peter Maxwell Davies’ Eight Songs for a Mad King, Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire, Harry Partch’s Barstow, and Schostakovich’s, Hans Werner Henze’s El Cimarrón and Benjamin Brittan’s Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings