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« Reply #4275 on: 08:37:26, 30-08-2008 » |
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I've just returned from a week away. It was supposed to be a holiday. As far as work was concerned it was supposed to be a holiday. I was on full uncle duty over the weekend for my mum's party. I got to the end of Monday, having waved off my brother and his wife and suddenly remembered that the party was also supposed to have been celebrating my 30th birthday and my graduation. Oops. The rest of the week has been spent preparing score and parts for my supervisor (for a fee of course) of a couple of his quartet pieces to be played in Durham in October. It's been a long hard slog persuading Sibelius to do things it does not want to do but both scores and parts look lovely now, and he's very pleased with them. Next time I charge more! And I've sold my car for a third of the price I paid for it four years ago  . I will miss it. Eventually. My dad has been fussing around the Durham house while I've been staring at a computer screen, tidying, gardening, cleaning. Every evening he's been settling down to read for hours. I left him there tonight with my brother and his wife (the ones who I waved off on Monday) and he's driving back down tomorrow. It looks like the house will either be sold or up for rent very shortly, so I'll have to go down again and pack stuff up in boxes and arrange for it to be delivered up here. All of which presses me to get organised about where I'm going to live this year. It all sounds very ard work h-h. I think you need a holiday!  |
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« Reply #4276 on: 08:55:28, 30-08-2008 » |
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Well that would be nice but I'm not sure how feasible it's going to be. I have two pieces to write rather quickly (one is just about there, just needs to be 'fixed') and our Sonic Fusion Festival begins on the 18th September, so before then I also have to master diffusing two Stockhausen works. Plus plan my teaching for this trimester... and I don't know exactly what teaching support I've got on my history modules, so at the moment I could be teaching everything between 1600 and 1800 before the first week in January.  |
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« Reply #4277 on: 09:48:33, 30-08-2008 » |
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We are preparing scores here too, hh, but of a different kind. There is a lot of that Sibelius staff going around.
I have a violin concert at the end of September. I have to play two solo pieces, Schumann piano and violin Sonata, Dvorak Romance op. 11 and Bach Double violin concerto.
What is diffusing two Stockhausen works mean? I know all words in the sentence, but it makes no sense to me.
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« Reply #4278 on: 09:56:42, 30-08-2008 » |
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It basically means making the sound move around a number of speakers. I'm a bit worried that I haven't sourced a score for Gesang yet and that the score for Telemusik is in German but I'm sure I'll work something out...
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« Reply #4279 on: 10:02:08, 30-08-2008 » |
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It sounds so interesting to me. We don't have things like that here. May be only pop guitar groups know something about that or may be not.
Do you need a big hall to make diffusing effective?
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richard barrett
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« Reply #4280 on: 10:35:21, 30-08-2008 » |
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It basically means making the sound move around a number of speakers. I'm a bit worried that I haven't sourced a score for Gesang yet and that the score for Telemusik is in German but I'm sure I'll work something out...
I don't really see why you'd really need a score or to "diffuse" either of these pieces, since they're in multichannel format already. Or have I misunderstood? |
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« Reply #4281 on: 10:57:46, 30-08-2008 » |
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IIRC Gesang comes as a four-track work to be diffused over five speakers, but seeing as the score is only available in a special edition hardbound with extra bells and whistles, I don't think I'll be ordering it somehow. Telemusik is originally a five-track tape part but exists only as a stereo version now (unless someone clever like that Tazelaar chap has done something in the meantime to the original tape). From reading the CD liner notes and looking at the score (which is interesting quite independently of its usefulness to the task at hand), there shouldn't be much diffusion going on in Telemusik so it will be simply a matter of maintaining the balance of the four speakers during performance, but that will probably still need some practice.
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« Reply #4282 on: 11:03:18, 30-08-2008 » |
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I believe a new digital five-channel version of Telemusik was made from the original master some time in the late 1990s (after which the original machine from the NHK radio station in Japan was scrapped). I don't know about Gesang though.
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« Reply #4283 on: 09:07:21, 31-08-2008 » |
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Concert in the Park, looks certain to be cancelled, I hope!! The logistics are rather awkward to say the least. We are supposed to be playing on The Pavillion Lawns(Royal Pavillion in Brighton for those not in the know!!), we start at 2pm.
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« Reply #4284 on: 09:13:48, 31-08-2008 » |
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I wonder, can any of you people who travel a lot and even live abroad tell me about Copenhagen? My daughter is hoping to visit next year and has been told that the cost of living is so high that a meal is the equivalent of about £30 and a drink about £7.50. Has she been told anything remotely like the truth here? I think she would find it hard to survive that!!
It is a choir trip and she really wants to go but this may be prohibitive.
Any advice guys?
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« Reply #4285 on: 09:45:20, 31-08-2008 » |
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We only went for the day a couple of months ago, but any tourist place is very expensive for food and drink. There were lots of students around though, so there will be places specifically for them. If it is a supervised choir group, surely they will do their homework first? I'm afraid £7.50 for a coffee isn't at all unusual. Vienna is even more expensive. I paid £7.50 in St. Mark's Square in Venice and that was years ago. How long would she be going for? |
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« Reply #4286 on: 10:00:22, 31-08-2008 » |
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I wonder, can any of you people who travel a lot and even live abroad tell me about Copenhagen? I spent a month there in 1996 and since then I've only been there for short trips. Yes, it's very expensive to eat out there, just like in all the other Nordic countries. However, the UK is so expensive these days that the difference may not be so noticeable. I'd say that with a Lonely Planet-type guide it would be possible to keep within a reasonable budget - any capital city has places which rip tourists off and others (harder to find of course) which don't. Copenhagen is a beautiful city but the weather stinks. |
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« Reply #4287 on: 10:01:58, 31-08-2008 » |
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I'm afraid £7.50 for a coffee isn't at all unusual. Vienna is even more expensive. I paid £7.50 in St. Mark's Square in Venice and that was years ago. How long would she be going for? Well, in St Mark's Square you would. Avoid big tourist areas and go to the places the locals go to. In Copenhagen, we ate in the cafeteria of the big department store in Kongens Nytorv, Magasin du Nord. Not interesting food, but not expensive. In Vienna we found a chain restaurant in a side street near the Opera that again wasn't interesting food - I remember a lot of kartoffelnsalat and chicken or fish - but was cheap-ish. It is quite possible to live in these places if you do a bit of research and don't want gourmet meals all the time. |
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« Reply #4288 on: 10:11:14, 31-08-2008 » |
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Thanks very much for the advice , it seems as though she has been told the truth!! It is an adult choir Milly, she is approaching 30  so they are pretty much left to sort out their own meals and things. I shall pass on your comments to her. I don't think they are going for long - a concert date I think - although I am not too sure, perhaps a weekend, so she may be able to manage for that short time. A |
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« Reply #4289 on: 10:38:02, 31-08-2008 » |
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I've been in Copenhagen a few times in the last three or four years - but really only passing through (work has taken me to Malmo a few times, which is just a short train trip over the Oresund bridge, and thanks to the bizarre rules my employer has about calculating overseas expense allowances, it makes more sense to stay in Copenhagen - which is where you fly into anyway). I'd concur with what others have already said - it can be very expensive, as can any of the Nordic countries, but it needn't be if you explore beyond the tourist areas.
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At every one of these [classical] concerts in England you will find rows of weary people who are there, not because they really like classical music, but because they think they ought to like it. (Shaw, Don Juan in Hell)
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