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« Reply #1 on: 18:57:05, 04-09-2007 » |
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I shall certainly go to at least 3 of them.  Quite a lot of interesting stuff going on, indeed, although I don't really see how the phrase "cutting edge" could in any way apply to the concert on 6 December...! |
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« Reply #2 on: 19:39:07, 04-09-2007 » |
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I get a bit impatient with the continual clicking back and forth to see what's in each concert, but having clicked on about half of them it looks like if anything a more appetising season than usual. Particularly looking forward to the Finnissy Piano Concertos, though there are lots of good things there and I imagine I'll be at most of the concerts. Even the 6th Dec (blunt-edged but beautiful? ). A few candidates for praiseworthy/cringeworthy titles there, too, depending on your point of view: Dave Smith - Murdoch or Fred West: Which is Best?Michael Finnissy - Six Sexy Minuets and Three Trios (not a tribute to David Osmond-Smith, by any chance?! martle will know what I'm talking about ...) |
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« Reply #3 on: 10:02:53, 05-09-2007 » |
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Mary Dullea on 18th Oct looks like my highlight on a first glance.
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« Reply #4 on: 10:28:14, 05-09-2007 » |
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I'm interested to know what the basis is for titling Richard Craig's recital Ars Subtilior - a name more usually associated with a strange flowering of rhythmically complex polyphony in the closing decades of the C14th?
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« Reply #5 on: 10:49:12, 05-09-2007 » |
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Shame, I don't think I'll be able to make any of these concerts, if I had a choice, I'd opt for
1. John Powell's concerts
2. Smith quartet evening
3. asamisimasa
4. Edwards/Kanno/Berge
5. Nicolls piano duet
...which is a fair number especially since I've been very critical of this series in the past. The main problem with applying to this is basically the cost, the ensemble/perfomers have to pay for everything it seems...
asamisimasa play extremely well, I saw them play Trond Reinholdtsen's piece, which I'd like to see again -ie I hadn't noticed it lasting 30 minutes at all.
I'm afraid I don't know M.Schlomowitz's or Joanna Baillie's music yet.
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« Reply #6 on: 10:52:27, 05-09-2007 » |
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I'm interested to know what the basis is for titling Richard Craig's recital Ars Subtilior - a name more usually associated with a strange flowering of rhythmically complex polyphony in the closing decades of the C14th?
A comparison has sometimes been drawn between the movement you mention and the similarly 'strange flowering of rhythmically complex polyphony' in the work of certain composers in the 1970s/1980s, particularly Ferneyhough and Finnissy (although to what extent they constitute a 'movement' is open to debate). |
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« Reply #7 on: 11:23:37, 05-09-2007 » |
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I will have a go at getting to them all. It's the 19:00 starts for some that might be a bit difficult.
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« Reply #8 on: 11:24:11, 05-09-2007 » |
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A few candidates for praiseworthy/cringeworthy titles there, too, depending on your point of view:
Dave Smith - Murdoch or Fred West: Which is Best?
The full title is Murdoch or Fred West - which is best ? (reconsidered). That doesn't help, does it ? |
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« Reply #9 on: 11:33:42, 05-09-2007 » |
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A few candidates for praiseworthy/cringeworthy titles there, too, depending on your point of view:
Dave Smith - Murdoch or Fred West: Which is Best?
The full title is Murdoch or Fred West - which is best ? (reconsidered). That doesn't help, does it ? Revisionist! |
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« Reply #10 on: 02:26:33, 08-09-2007 » |
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I'm not one to cause controversy but I think is about time that 'The Proms' was privatised. Time to 'outsource' the whole bleeding lot to Classic FM who would no doubt continue to repeat the same old Ludwig Amadeus Wagner stuff, ad nauseum, until the (cash) cows come home. I'm sick to death of all the same old rubbish (apart from JSB). Hens teeth, when will the BBC see sense? I'll tell you this, you can't trust the Trust, you can't trust them at all. I'm certainly all in favour of the much, much more challenging contemporary music. The music of uncertainty, disharmony, dischord and doubt, much more in keeping with these very uncertain times (not like the flipping days of yore) and furthermore ....(to be continued)  |
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« Reply #11 on: 10:12:44, 08-09-2007 » |
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Maybe they could introduce us all to some contemporary 'delights' before every Proms concert. As they can't afford the rehearsal time for difficult contemporary works they could junk that crap altogether and play a few cuts over the PA from classic contemporary albums such as "London Calling" by The Clash.
"A comparison has sometimes been drawn between the movement you mention and the similarly 'strange flowering of rhythmically complex polyphony' in the work of certain composers in the 1970s/1980s, particularly Ferneyhough and Finnissy (although to what extent they constitute a 'movement' is open to debate)."
See I wish that more ws made out of that title and he played something from the 14th century -- all for our evaluation, of course.
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« Reply #12 on: 20:48:33, 08-09-2007 » |
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Dear Members I must apologise for my #10 above. At 02:26 hours I was practicing my drunken journalistic stupor and I appear to have (inadvertently) posted part of a unpublished 'controversial' article what I wrote for my Dads paper The Daily Wessel. I am hoping to find enough words to expand this drivel into a controversial new book called 'The Ludwig Amadeus Wagner Delusion' and I hope to become rich and famous just like my idols Dan (The Man) Brown, Richard (Diehard) Dawkins and Norman (The Foreman) Lebrecht. Yours Sincerely (geddit?) MT Wessel (junior) Music critic and art expert. The Daily Wessel |
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« Reply #13 on: 23:31:53, 27-09-2007 » |
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Well I thought to myself, "Barrett is bound to attend for his 'Lost'", but no. Autoharp, T_I_N and Alistair were there, along with Captain Roger, but no Richard. That's the second time I have lugged that Varèse tome up to London in the expectation of handing it over. Ah well, enjoyable evening, and T_I_N turned the pages with great style. |
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« Reply #14 on: 08:05:42, 28-09-2007 » |
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Well I thought to myself, "Barrett is bound to attend for his 'Lost'", but no. Autoharp, T_I_N and Alistair were there, along with Captain Roger, but no Richard. That's the second time I have lugged that Varèse tome up to London in the expectation of handing it over. Ah well, enjoyable evening, and T_I_N turned the pages with great style. Maybe Richard got lost on the way to The Warehouse (although I rather doubt that, as I'm sure he must know where it is). I was hoping to meet him. I had hoped to catch up with Michael F again, too, but he seemed to depart quite rapidly after the concert ended (though not anything like as rapidly and Jane and Tony, who had to make a dash for a Joan Chissell memorial do at RCM as soon as King Harald's Epilogue had ended). Good page turners are always worth their weight in gold. Good page tinners even more so, I'd say. Best, Alistair |
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