Slowly into Atonia

Haydn was excellent. Shostakovich was comprehensible. Schnittke was just ... strange. It had hints of atonalism, but just when they started to really show the old tonal system comes back ... with some minor distortions. The strings in a strange dissonance, trying to 'explore the difference between C-sharp and D-flat'. It can almost stand as its own idiom of sound, actually. Tonal and atonal and semi-tonal in quick succession, all at once ... polystylic, indeed.
Also, there seemed to be very few people in the audience with Singaporean accents. Quite sad, really.