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I did wonder when your email the other day mentioned 'a couple of hours', Don!
Was this Discovering Music any good? I've only just seen this thread now (and was away and would have missed the broadcast anyway), and I'm a bit pushed for time in the morning but could try to Listen Again if someone tells me it's worth it.
Is this the only time a Discovering Music programme has been shorter than the work focused on?!
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« Reply #16 on: 23:51:18, 07-09-2008 » |
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I was thinking of this, honestly, but just worked out 4pm to c10pm means SIX hours standing for a work I have not heard before, not to mention queuing and hanging around before hand.
I think it would be risking my good experiences of the proms, so far.
Well, I did not get to the RAH until about 3.30pm today, by which time the Arena queue was no more. Those who had been in it had all entered. I still managed to get a seat (one of those reasonably upholstered ones with arms) just to the left of centre at the back of the Arena. Apart from the others who had managed to get a seat, the back of the Arena was almost empty, as was much of the rest of the Hall. Several of the Arena audience lay down throughout. This, for me, was the Prom of the season, by some measure. Good soloists, fine chorus, and excellent playing all round. Add to that Metzmacher's beautifully judged direction and who could ask for more? Well I suppose I could have done without the flat (punctured) front offside tyre that I discovered on returning to my parked car after the concert. Only took about 10 minutes to change the wheel for the emergency one, then it was back home at a maximum speed of 50 mph, (what was wrong with the old proper replacement spare wheels?). |
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« Reply #17 on: 00:02:29, 08-09-2008 » |
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Wonderful concert. I can't say much more than that, really. I was at the front of the Arena with the DoverHyphenSoles and we all spent much of the concert lying prone on the Arena floor. I was blown away, by the "heavenly viol" episode in particular.
Lovely to see you beforehand, Bryn, and also to catch up with IGI and GG for a cuppa in the long interval.
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Ein süßer, heiliger Akkord von dir
Den Himmel beßrer Zeiten mir erschlossen,
Du holde Kunst, ich danke dir dafür!
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« Reply #18 on: 00:43:02, 08-09-2008 » |
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St Francis was an astounding experience which I am still reeling from. Can't think of anything to say about it at the moment other than "what a work!" and profound gratitude for all involved in tonight's performance. Sorry to have missed you Bryn but delighted to hear that you were there after all. I second everything you say about the performance. The ICU cuppa in the second interval was one of the most welcome I've ever had. Thank you Ruth! From where I was sitting it looked to me as if both you and Lady D-S were actually lying supine rather than prone but maybe the old eyes aren't as good as they used to be  . |
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« Reply #19 on: 14:17:34, 08-09-2008 » |
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i`m totally in accord with you all- it was a remarkable occassion. i so nearly didn`t go!
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« Reply #20 on: 14:38:57, 08-09-2008 » |
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I wish I'd been there - over the radio it sounded absolutely wonderful, a performance of real power and exaltation. Although I'm a veteran of both British premieres - the RFH performance of extracts with Fischer-Dieskau and Ozawa in 1985 and the first complete British performance at the RFH in December 1988, under Nagano - it's not a work I've heard for a long time, and its impact was all the greater for that. Having heard a lot of Messiaen in the last few weeks, if was fascinating to pick up the influences.
(My homework for the concert was confounded by the fact that the first disc of the local library copy of the Nagano recording was scratched and unplayable - what do the burghers of Hove do with library discs? I feel an expensive visit to the South American river people coming on ...)
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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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« Reply #21 on: 15:31:18, 08-09-2008 » |
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Just about managed to stay on feet thorughout - thought the final chord did it's best to knock me over.
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« Reply #22 on: 15:40:16, 08-09-2008 » |
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If music could make us good, this music would. In the silence after the last, ecstatic chord, I thought I could hear the Devil screaming. |
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« Reply #23 on: 15:44:01, 08-09-2008 » |
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If music could make us good, this music would. Perhaps I'm not ready for it. |
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To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven.
A time to weep, and a time to laugh: a time to mourn, and a time to dance
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« Reply #24 on: 15:52:09, 08-09-2008 » |
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If music could make us good, this music would. In the silence after the last, ecstatic chord, I thought I could hear the Devil screaming. Puh- leaze. |
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« Reply #25 on: 16:05:56, 08-09-2008 » |
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The city is a process which always veers away from the form envisaged and desired, ... whose revenge upon its architects and planners undoes every dream of mastery. It is [also] one of the sites where Dasein is assigned the impossible task of putting right what can never be put right. - Rob Lapsley
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« Reply #26 on: 17:43:52, 08-09-2008 » |
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If music could make us good, this music would. In the silence after the last, ecstatic chord, I thought I could hear the Devil screaming. Puh- leaze. After you with the sick-bag, Richard. |
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« Reply #27 on: 18:18:15, 08-09-2008 » |
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What a mesmerising music. Words cannot describe. How did Messaien work it all out?
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« Reply #28 on: 18:48:31, 08-09-2008 » |
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In the silence after the last, ecstatic chord, I thought I could hear the Devil screaming. Probably an early appearance of that bluddy Whooper Woman. |
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« Reply #29 on: 18:51:39, 08-09-2008 » |
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In the silence after the last, ecstatic chord, I thought I could hear the Devil screaming. Perhaps it's the Luziferium... |
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