2Tess_W
I just purchased tickets for myself and my 88 year old mother to hear the Columbus Symphony Orchestra's "Russian Winter Festival" featuring American-Israeli pianist Inon Barnatan performing selections from Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninoff. (They have listed specifically Tchaikovsky's Concerto #3) This is my Christmas present to my mother. She studied piano at college in the early 1950's.
3lilithcat
Most recently, I went to "Baroque in the Park", Music of the Baroque's 50th anniversary celebration, consisting of excerpts from various pieces that they will be performing in full during their upcoming season. It was an absolutely perfect night, gorgeous weather, gorgeous music.
4librorumamans
I have no plans to attend performances for a while yet. In Toronto, most of the theatres and ensembles are offering some sort of hybrid subscription.
Over the summer I did discover Bálint Karosi, a keyboardist, who is focussing at present on Bach and improvisation. He's on Patreon and also YouTube.
Over the summer I did discover Bálint Karosi, a keyboardist, who is focussing at present on Bach and improvisation. He's on Patreon and also YouTube.
5genesisdiem
I've been watching a lot of old episodes of Great Performances on PBS Passport.
Plus, Glen Gould channel on Pandora and Holst's 'Planets' on vinyl... and Performance Today on NPR... always something good on. :D
Plus, Glen Gould channel on Pandora and Holst's 'Planets' on vinyl... and Performance Today on NPR... always something good on. :D
6Tess_W
Can listening to classical music change your life?
https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20180116-can-listening-to-classical-music-im...
https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20180116-can-listening-to-classical-music-im...
7Tess_W
Some misc trivia..........on the "far side" of classical music....
Santana (classical rock/guitar?) passed out last Tuesday on-stage in Michigan while playing. He was taken to the hospital, given 2 bags IV and released. Rx: heat exhaustion, dehydration. It was nearly 100 on the day in question and the lights added another 4 degrees, according to concert officials. Five shows were canceled so that Santana might fully recover.
Ringo Starr and his All-Star band canceled one month of shows on his retirement tour due to Edgar Winter and Steve Lukather (founder of Toto) contracting Covid. The shows were postponed until September.
Santana (classical rock/guitar?) passed out last Tuesday on-stage in Michigan while playing. He was taken to the hospital, given 2 bags IV and released. Rx: heat exhaustion, dehydration. It was nearly 100 on the day in question and the lights added another 4 degrees, according to concert officials. Five shows were canceled so that Santana might fully recover.
Ringo Starr and his All-Star band canceled one month of shows on his retirement tour due to Edgar Winter and Steve Lukather (founder of Toto) contracting Covid. The shows were postponed until September.
8KeithChaffee
Hmmmm... no one's posted here in a while, so I don't know if anyone will read this, but I went to hear the final Los Angeles Philharmonic concert of the season yesterday. One of the nicest things about living in Los Angeles is getting to hear a world-class orchestra in the magnificent Walt Disney Concert Hall, with its stunning acoustics.
Gustavo Gimeno was the guest conductor, and the centerpiece of the concert was the world premiere of "Noru," a percussion concerto written by the Phil's principal timpanist, Joseph Pereira, and played by the principal percussionist, Matthew Howard. It was a marvelous piece, strongly influenced by Japanese music, with a thrilling early cadenza for taiko drums.
The concert opened with Bernard Herrmann's Suite from Vertigo, played without the film, which is the only correct way for an orchestra to play film music (if they must do so at all); the only way to judge whether the music really is good enough to stand on its own as a concert piece is to present it that way. But as is the case with so much film music, if you've seen the movie, the music immediately brings it to mind. I'd love to know what people thought of the music who hadn't seen the movie, but I am (happily, because it's a great movie) unable to be that person.
Post-intermission, we got Tchaikovsky's 5th Symphony, in a disappointing performance. Tempos all seemed either too fast or too slow, and Gimeno emphasized background details that should have stayed in the background while downplaying things that should have been more noticeable.
Worth it for the concerto.
Gustavo Gimeno was the guest conductor, and the centerpiece of the concert was the world premiere of "Noru," a percussion concerto written by the Phil's principal timpanist, Joseph Pereira, and played by the principal percussionist, Matthew Howard. It was a marvelous piece, strongly influenced by Japanese music, with a thrilling early cadenza for taiko drums.
The concert opened with Bernard Herrmann's Suite from Vertigo, played without the film, which is the only correct way for an orchestra to play film music (if they must do so at all); the only way to judge whether the music really is good enough to stand on its own as a concert piece is to present it that way. But as is the case with so much film music, if you've seen the movie, the music immediately brings it to mind. I'd love to know what people thought of the music who hadn't seen the movie, but I am (happily, because it's a great movie) unable to be that person.
Post-intermission, we got Tchaikovsky's 5th Symphony, in a disappointing performance. Tempos all seemed either too fast or too slow, and Gimeno emphasized background details that should have stayed in the background while downplaying things that should have been more noticeable.
Worth it for the concerto.
9librorumamans
>8 KeithChaffee:
You don't say how much of the Vertigo suite was on the program. On Naxos Music the most I can find is three movements: Prelude, The Nightmare, and Scène d'amour. That's much less than the sound track listing on Wikipedia. Having forgotten if I've seen Vertigo, I find the Scène d'amour stands well on its own.
The Pereira Concerto sounds like one of those concert experiences that you don't forget.
You don't say how much of the Vertigo suite was on the program. On Naxos Music the most I can find is three movements: Prelude, The Nightmare, and Scène d'amour. That's much less than the sound track listing on Wikipedia. Having forgotten if I've seen Vertigo, I find the Scène d'amour stands well on its own.
The Pereira Concerto sounds like one of those concert experiences that you don't forget.
10KeithChaffee
Yes, those three movements make up the Vertigo concert suite.
11lilithcat
I went to Secret Byrd last night: https://concerttheatreworks.com/portfolio/secret-byrd/
It's a representation of a secret Mass; the music is William Byrd's Mass for Five Voices. All done by candlelight. It was wonderful!
It's a representation of a secret Mass; the music is William Byrd's Mass for Five Voices. All done by candlelight. It was wonderful!
13lilithcat
>12 librorumamans:
It was really fun. They even had a moment when there was a pounding on the door, they blew out all the candles, and rushed the priest to his hiding place!
It was really fun. They even had a moment when there was a pounding on the door, they blew out all the candles, and rushed the priest to his hiding place!
14booksforreading
>13 lilithcat:
This sounds spectacular.
When I was growing up, my local orchestra played Haydn's Farewell Symphony every year in very late December with candles on stage and no other lights in the hall. During the last movement, one by one, musicians blew the candles off and left the stage, until, as written by Haydn, only two violinists were left on the stage. It was very beautiful, and, of course, the piece is great, too. In our days, there are probably too many safety restrictions to do a spectacle like this with live candles.
>8 KeithChaffee:
I am sorry that Tchaikovsky was not interpreted well. I hope that your next classical music experience in that hall will be better.
This sounds spectacular.
When I was growing up, my local orchestra played Haydn's Farewell Symphony every year in very late December with candles on stage and no other lights in the hall. During the last movement, one by one, musicians blew the candles off and left the stage, until, as written by Haydn, only two violinists were left on the stage. It was very beautiful, and, of course, the piece is great, too. In our days, there are probably too many safety restrictions to do a spectacle like this with live candles.
>8 KeithChaffee:
I am sorry that Tchaikovsky was not interpreted well. I hope that your next classical music experience in that hall will be better.
15lilithcat
Chicago's Music of the Baroque is repeating their "Chicago Water Music" in September: https://www.baroque.org/watermusic2025 , and I've bought a ticket to be on one of the audience boats. Fingers crossed for decent weather!
