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« on: 16:37:53, 13-08-2007 »
Via my facebook account, I've just received the following (From Henry Wood himself no less...):

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Sadly Maxim Vengerov has had to withdraw from this performance due to injury. He was due to give the UK premiere of Benjamin Yusupov’s Viola Rock Tango Concerto.

Because of the unique nature of the event, the BBC Proms and the London Symphony Orchestra have decided to maintain the spirit of Latin American music as a theme for the evening.

We are delighted to announce that the Venezuelan Brass Ensemble – nearly sixty brass and percussion players drawn from the extraordinary Simón Bolivar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela, who are due to give the main sold-out evening Prom on Sunday 19 August – will now play alongside the London Symphony Orchestra.

This will be the UK debut of the highly acclaimed Venezuelan Brass Ensemble, which has grown out of the extraordinary state-sponsored system which comprises some 200 children’s and young people’s orchestras and about 100 music centres, spread all over the country and promises to be a remarkable foretaste of the Simón Bolivar Youth Orchestra’s much-anticipated Prom the following evening.

Any ticket holders not now wishing to attend the revised concert, are asked to contact the box office for full refunds.


Copland: El sálon México
Piazzolla arr. Adams: La Mufa; Todo Buenos Aires
Piazzolla: Tangazo
Copland: Hoe-down from Rodeo
Other works by Copland, R Strauss, J S Bach, Gershwin and Latin-American composers - to be announced

There will be no interval

London Symphony Orchestra
François-Xavier Roth conductor
The Venezuelan Brass Ensemble
Thomas Clamor conductor

Now confirmed on website too.
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« Reply #1 on: 16:39:21, 13-08-2007 »
Quote from: David_Underdown on 16:37:53, 13-08-2007
Via my facebook account, I've just received the following (From Henry Wood himself no less...):

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Sadly Maxim Vengerov has had to withdraw from this performance due to injury. He was due to give the UK premiere of Benjamin Yusupov’s Viola Rock Tango Concerto.

Ermm.... tragic.  ?
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« Reply #2 on: 21:06:46, 13-08-2007 »
A fifty-piece brass ensemble?  I wonder if they'll have Karnays?

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« Reply #3 on: 21:33:27, 13-08-2007 »
I booked this on the strength of Vengerov's name alone; well, that and the fact that transport involved nothing more arduous than not going home after 'The Apostles'!  There is the tempting offer of a full refund to consider.  Is this revised programme worth passing up the chance to get my cash back and get back to where I'm staying before the pubs shut?  In other words, do any of our experts know anything about the Venezuelan Brass Ensemble, Thomas Clamor or, indeed, François-Xavier Roth?  I certainly wouldn't have booked this concert if it had been advertised as such from the outset, but I'm not averse to giving it a go if encouraged.
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« Reply #4 on: 10:01:01, 19-08-2007 »
Well, the LSO set the bar for brass playing (Rod Franks' trumpet solos in the Copland, and some rather demanding horn work in the Piazzolla) and for the most part the Venezuellans matched it.  They were pretty together, just the occasional intonation and balance issues (unfortunately to be expected with multiple doublings - ten horns on a part at the end!)

The repertoire was PJBE lollypop fare, and the two numbers by ensemble members sounded like American high school band genre pieces.  If radio listeners wonder about audience noise towards the end of the concert, this was appreciation for general mugging - lots of standing up and waving instruments about.

I'd be interested what other members think the the ensemble sounded like compared to the brass bands - and ensemble - from prom 20.

Back to the LSO, unusual to see a conductor so deliberately try and catch the audience out with a false ending?

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« Reply #5 on: 16:03:44, 20-08-2007 »
I'm not sure it's entirely fair to compare them to top British bands, there were certainly some splits in the first few pieces, but those seemed in less evidence in the later works.  I don't really know the American High School band oeuvre, so i can't comment on similarities there, but I think those peices were largely designed as show pieces, which they did reasonably effectively, they were hardly aiming for Harrison Birtwistle after all.
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« Reply #6 on: 00:11:13, 21-08-2007 »
True, but I was thinking of the overall sound of the ensemble - split counting is one of the hideous aspects of contesting brass bands (and a reason I havn't done that for seven years)

It's unfortunate that your average brass bander will say that trumpets and french horns spoil the sound because they are too direct.  I don't find that at all and relish the variety in tone colours, but I still feel there's something missing with a symphonic brass ensemble no matter how good.  And when you come to think of it that's odd, since most brass players come from a brass band background.

Perhaps that doesn't apply to the Venezualans!

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« Reply #7 on: 10:28:56, 21-08-2007 »
Hmm, well I'm a (former) brass player who's never played in a brass band, more familiar with Wind Band and orchestral rep, and (also) love the sound of horns and trumpets, so..

One thing I noticed was that I don't think mutes were used at all on Saturday, though as the brass section on Sunday, they obviously did have access to them.  The effect of pointing a trumpet up a french horn, and one down a tuba was interesting though, nice evocation of a guitar sound.  It looked like although the Horn and Tuba weren't playing anything they were rattling the valves to give more variety.
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