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Not necessarily the music itself here, for sure, but how's this for a classic case of "music for töffs"? http://www.mvdaily.com/articles/2007/09/thann5.htmMein königdom for a horse? Er - I don't think so. I'd almost sooner attend Glyndebourne. Any opinions, anyone? Best, Alistair |
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Apparently next year's Götterdämmerung will be the first ever where the Grane gets star billing....
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« Reply #17 on: 11:03:05, 03-09-2007 » |
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Equus the Musical ?
Polo for cats ?
Adjust your dressage ?
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Not necessarily the music itself here, for sure, but how's this for a classic case of "music for töffs"?
Could there really be someone called Uwe Schwanz? |
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« Reply #19 on: 11:49:01, 03-09-2007 » |
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Apparently so. And doesn't he just look like one, too?
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I love the optimistic comment about the conjunction of high-level equestrianism and classical music being a "rising trend" in Germany, as if horse-opera companies were springing up all over the country.  "If time were the wicked sheriff in a horse opera, I'd pay for riding lessons and take his gun away." (Auden) (A reference to time-is-now?) |
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« Reply #21 on: 13:04:04, 03-09-2007 » |
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Equus the Musical ?
Polo for cats ?
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Tristallion und Isolde? Newly discovered Canterings by Bach? Donkey hottie? La mare? Never mind Gray's The Women of Troy, what about The Trojan Horse? Well, as long as no one turns my Sequentia Claviensis into Sequestrian Cavalieriensis, I suppose I can afford to put up and shut up... Best, Alistair |
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« Reply #22 on: 13:07:49, 03-09-2007 » |
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I love the optimistic comment about the conjunction of high-level equestrianism and classical music being a "rising trend" in Germany, as if horse-opera companies were springing up all over the country. "If time were the wicked sheriff in a horse opera, I'd pay for riding lessons and take his gun away." (Auden) (A reference to time-is-now?) Well, if that trend catches on in this country, can't you just imagine some of those patrons of both Royal Ascot and Glyndebourne opening bottles of vintage Krug in celebration of the dawn of the buy-one-get-one-free situation in which one could go to the races wearing one's bist het and get a itedoor production of Der Rosenkavalier thrown in for free afterwards? Best, Alistair |
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« Reply #23 on: 13:42:35, 03-09-2007 » |
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I'm delighted to announce that Dough Productions have established a new subsidiary, Opera on the Hoof: it's intended that the first production should be Britten's Rape of Lucretia, in which Tarquinius's Ride to Rome will be staged for the very first time. Regular readers may be further interested to hear that the Managing Director of OotH is to be none other than our old friend Sgr Vincenzo Bellini, from whom I'm sure we'll hear in the none-to-distant future regarding his repertoire choices. He's informed me that his leading soprano is already angling to get a White Horse Inn.
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« Reply #24 on: 13:52:18, 03-09-2007 » |
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I'm delighted to announce that Dough Productions have established a new subsidiary, Opera on the Hoof: it's intended that the first production should be Britten's Rape of Lucretia, in which Tarquinius's Ride to Rome will be staged for the very first time. Regular readers may be further interested to hear that the Managing Director of OotH is to be none other than our old friend Sgr Vincenzo Bellini, from whom I'm sure we'll hear in the none-to-distant future regarding his repertoire choices. He's informed me that his leading soprano is already angling to get a White Horse Inn.
There's now an awful lot of horse whispering going on in here; the mane thing is, will anyone tell Thomas Trotter before he gallops off to play his next recital at Canter-bury Cathedral? To return to the thread topic, however, if one gets the bit between one's teeth with sufficient determination, one's musical phobias may eventually be overcome - unless they are pianistic ones, in which case they may possibly only be overcome one hand at a time. By the way, does anyone remember that group called The Starting Pistols? Best, Alistair |
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« Reply #25 on: 13:59:45, 03-09-2007 » |
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I ought to admit at this point I really have staged horse-operas - in Mongolia.
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« Reply #26 on: 14:05:09, 03-09-2007 » |
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I ought to admit at this point I really have staged horse-operas
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« Reply #27 on: 14:10:18, 03-09-2007 » |
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I think this idea could run and run, and would certainly make a nice change from the repertoire warhorses being constantly trotted out, although it might be as well to keep it as a hobby for now, or at least to hold some wild horses in reserve to drag in listeners who might shy at the prospect. For those of us whose tastes are less blinkered, it sounds like a dead cert. May I be first past the post to suggest that you seriously consider for inclusion the stage works of Cavalli, which are economically scored (the brass section represented only by a unique horn) and whose convoluted plots are full of all manner of horseplay. Of course, there may be regulations restricting the public staging of certain acts involving animals, but as we all know the law is an ass.
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« Reply #28 on: 14:15:44, 03-09-2007 » |
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When I was about 13 I had an LP called "Baroque Festival" or some such thing, which was one of my favourite records except for the fact that I couldn't for many years listen to its second track (it was the Canzon VIII from Giovanni Gabrieli's 1615 Sonate e canzoni collection, recorded by the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis in the late 1950s, rather slower than this music is generally performed nowadays). Was that a midprice DG disc with a fancy painting on the front? Dances from Terpsichore etc? I had it too! |
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When I was about 13 I had an LP called "Baroque Festival" or some such thing, which was one of my favourite records except for the fact that I couldn't for many years listen to its second track (it was the Canzon VIII from Giovanni Gabrieli's 1615 Sonate e canzoni collection, recorded by the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis in the late 1950s, rather slower than this music is generally performed nowadays). Was that a midprice DG disc with a fancy painting on the front? Dances from Terpsichore etc? I had it too! Exactly. There was also (scratches head furiously) a Vivaldi piccolo concerto, Zadok the Priest, some excerpts from Rameau's Les Indes Galantes, and, ummm, some other stuff. |
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