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« on: 12:00:33, 01-08-2007 » |
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So, any thoughts on Volkov and Mahler? Hum a 14 minute first half.  |
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« Reply #1 on: 13:50:46, 01-08-2007 » |
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Hum a 14 minute first half. That's nothing special, eruanto. I went to a concert were Steve Reich's Hindenburg was the only piece during the first half.  |
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"People hate anything well made. It gives them a guilty conscience." John Betjeman
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« Reply #2 on: 14:15:43, 01-08-2007 » |
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i was at a vpo prom of mahler 2, where the first half was Grabsteinfur Fur Stephan.
at the first keyboard noise, someone above, obviously unaware of what was coming or how loud it would be, dropped their programme and newspaper. it made the horn players laugh, they couldn't play properly.
they couldn't play properly anyway, as they didn't have their mouthpieces in...
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« Reply #3 on: 15:20:18, 01-08-2007 » |
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i was at a vpo prom of mahler 2, where the first half was Grabsteinfur Fur Stephan.
at the first keyboard noise, someone above, obviously unaware of what was coming or how loud it would be, dropped their programme and newspaper. it made the horn players laugh, they couldn't play properly.
they couldn't play properly anyway, as they didn't have their mouthpieces in...
Mahler asks for a pause of at least 5 minutes between the first and second movements of no. 2. Maybe they could have played it then? I heard a concert in Sydney once where the first half was the Beethoven Gross Fudge and the second half was Turangalîla. I don't think anyone knew what to make of that either. And indeed last time I heard Turangalîla the first half was the Mozart piano concerto K 453. Some pieces just seem to defy programming. |
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eruanto
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« Reply #4 on: 16:43:07, 01-08-2007 » |
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Well, the good stinky gentleman is here again, with radio. I quote: "they had the Bruckner, the Beethoven the first night, and the Symphonie Fantastique. The rest of it has been *total. rubbish.*"
Make what you will...
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« Reply #5 on: 20:01:46, 01-08-2007 » |
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Hum a 14 minute first half. I've just listened, eruanto, and I don't think I could hum that. Seriously, though, it struck me as a bit daft as soon as I saw the programme. Surely they're just asking for half the audience not to turn up until eight o'clock. All those people who buy cheap seats and upgrade themselves just before the start must be wondering, about now, if they're going to be evicted by the rightful occupants before the the Mahler. |
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« Reply #6 on: 20:10:44, 01-08-2007 » |
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I had intended attending tonight, but decided it would leave me to short of sleep for tomorrow, so I am reduced to listening to the Radio 3 broadcast.
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« Reply #7 on: 20:26:12, 01-08-2007 » |
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All those people who buy cheap seats and upgrade themselves just before the start must be wondering, about now, if they're going to be evicted by the rightful occupants before the the Mahler.
There's a lovely Loriot sketch where he's playing a flautist who's about to start a concert; he comes out on stage and some of the audience notice just as he does that there are better seats to be had so they move forward. He waits while one row moves forward, then another moves forward to fill their place, this goes on for a while, he's just about to start playing when of course the rightful occupants of the front row seats finally arrive... |
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dotcommunist
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« Reply #8 on: 20:45:06, 01-08-2007 » |
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they just clapped in the wrong place  the imbeciles |
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« Reply #9 on: 20:56:12, 01-08-2007 » |
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If only they wouldn't clap at the end...  |
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« Reply #10 on: 21:06:48, 01-08-2007 » |
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they just clapped in the wrong place the imbeciles Ah, but in Mozart's time they would have clapped between the movements of a Mahler symphony. Er ...  Well, between movements of a Mozart symphony anyway... But, well, why not? (Which I'm not writing just to be provocative.) |
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« Reply #11 on: 21:13:28, 01-08-2007 » |
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they just clapped in the wrong place the imbeciles What? You mean they left the Hall to clap? How very strange, indeed! |
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« Reply #12 on: 21:29:50, 01-08-2007 » |
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they'll soon be allowed to clap, although i was annoyed at the clapping before this movement.. so, what do we think of the 'come bide with me" movement?/? -oh did someone just sneeze? |
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« Reply #13 on: 23:16:38, 01-08-2007 » |
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"Abide with me, fast falls the Christmastide", as in?
Oh, please, please - no more of that; this is, after all, the Ninth Symphony that we're talking about...
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eruanto
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« Reply #14 on: 23:23:36, 01-08-2007 » |
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Chopin's Minute Waltz rang out in not-so-dulcet tones during the silence at the end. The leader was really really nervous when her solo passages came along. I really felt for her - the bow was literally bouncing off the string at some points. |
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