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- Sat Mar 03, 2007 12:15 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: John Adams's New Mozart Inspired Opera
- Replies: 16
- Views: 14735
Of course I have. I wouldn't know I can't stand it if I hadn't. Okay, what recent Adams pieces have you heard? Anything within the last 10 years? Noise is noise. Idiotic blanket statements like that don't make you appear to be any less ignorant. I'm not telling you to listen to more of anything. I'...
- Fri Mar 02, 2007 12:56 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: John Adams's New Mozart Inspired Opera
- Replies: 16
- Views: 14735
- Tue Aug 22, 2006 9:46 pm
- Forum: ARCHIVED: Classical Music Chatterbox May 2006 to Feb 26 2007
- Topic: Composers with the worst popular images?
- Replies: 29
- Views: 17104
I'd also put Wagner and Schoenberg in this group. Wagner's personal life and musical output are often mixed up for some reason. So what if the guy was a pre-Nazi, he was a brilliant composer. As for Schoenberg, though you may all be unfamiliar with it, he does have a certain stigma attatched to his ...
- Mon Aug 07, 2006 10:27 am
- Forum: ARCHIVED: Classical Music Chatterbox May 2006 to Feb 26 2007
- Topic: Stage Right, Stage Left, Stage Gone
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3341
- Thu Aug 03, 2006 11:40 pm
- Forum: ARCHIVED: Classical Music Chatterbox May 2006 to Feb 26 2007
- Topic: Help me! Sonata Form!
- Replies: 9
- Views: 7986
This is actually a bit controversial and I had a (rather famous) college professor who went to great lengths to convince his students that there was no such thing as sonata from. That's a controversial view? I thought that was pretty widely accepted. The truth of the matter is that sonata form is n...
- Wed Aug 02, 2006 11:18 am
- Forum: ARCHIVED: Classical Music Chatterbox May 2006 to Feb 26 2007
- Topic: It's Time for T-shirts and Jeans for Orchestra Members!
- Replies: 24
- Views: 10683
I've never seen much problem with it, honestly. There have been calls in the past for orchestras to become more casual in their performance attire, but this isn't easily done as the dress code is typically written into the player's contract. I wasn't happy about having to buy a buisness suit, normal...
- Mon Jul 31, 2006 11:23 pm
- Forum: ARCHIVED: Classical Music Chatterbox May 2006 to Feb 26 2007
- Topic: Schumann's Only Opera, "Genoveva"
- Replies: 11
- Views: 8065
- Mon Jul 10, 2006 11:13 am
- Forum: ARCHIVED: Classical Music Chatterbox May 2006 to Feb 26 2007
- Topic: Choral music, anybody?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 7756
There are many great works for chorus. Some that I haven't seen yet: Barber - Reincarnations Poulenc - Motets for Christmas, Lent; Mass in G Durufle - Ubi Caritas and the other pieces that come in that set Messiaen - O Sacrum Convivium Ravel - Trois Chansons Debussy - the three pieces that, I think,...
- Mon Jul 03, 2006 11:05 am
- Forum: ARCHIVED: Classical Music Chatterbox May 2006 to Feb 26 2007
- Topic: A "Porgy" for the Masses?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4105
- Mon Jul 03, 2006 11:02 am
- Forum: ARCHIVED: Classical Music Chatterbox May 2006 to Feb 26 2007
- Topic: Any good Walküre on CD?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 6121
- Wed Jun 28, 2006 11:21 am
- Forum: ARCHIVED: Classical Music Chatterbox May 2006 to Feb 26 2007
- Topic: Sir Benjamin Britten
- Replies: 14
- Views: 11860
- Tue Jun 27, 2006 10:55 pm
- Forum: ARCHIVED: Classical Music Chatterbox May 2006 to Feb 26 2007
- Topic: And Now a Left-Handed Conductor
- Replies: 18
- Views: 17623
BTW, another left handed conductor--Lukas Foss. He wasn't the last time I saw him conduct. Conducting left handed, while accepted, is generally frowned upon by conducting teachers. By the time you're in front of an ensemble you should have enough control over your limbs to hold the baton in either ...
- Tue Jun 27, 2006 10:50 pm
- Forum: ARCHIVED: Classical Music Chatterbox May 2006 to Feb 26 2007
- Topic: Welcome Back Maestro Levine
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3648
- Sun Jun 25, 2006 11:52 pm
- Forum: ARCHIVED: Classical Music Chatterbox May 2006 to Feb 26 2007
- Topic: Which composer would you most liike to have met and why?
- Replies: 66
- Views: 38854
Actually, my first choice would be a composer I did meet but could hardly engage in extensive conversation: Leonard Bernstein. Second choice: mahler. Two of my choices. Unfortunately, I am too young to have met Bernstein in a meaningful way, so he tops my list. I would prefer to meet him when he wa...
- Sun Jun 18, 2006 11:45 pm
- Forum: ARCHIVED: Classical Music Chatterbox May 2006 to Feb 26 2007
- Topic: Identify This Prolific Composer
- Replies: 21
- Views: 11354
- Tue Jun 13, 2006 7:50 am
- Forum: ARCHIVED: Classical Music Chatterbox May 2006 to Feb 26 2007
- Topic: Help? A/B List Conductors?
- Replies: 24
- Views: 12454
I am not sure everyone on list qualifies as a great conductor. ... Zander Ha. Maybe it's just because I've worked fairly closely with Zander for the past two years, but I don't have a very high opinion of his conducting. He's a good musician and is extremely charismatic (the actual reason he gets t...
- Mon Jun 05, 2006 11:48 am
- Forum: ARCHIVED: Classical Music Chatterbox May 2006 to Feb 26 2007
- Topic: Your composers A-Z?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 12083
- Sun May 28, 2006 12:27 pm
- Forum: ARCHIVED: Classical Music Chatterbox August 2005 to May 31, 2006
- Topic: Live from Lincoln Center-30 yr tribute
- Replies: 10
- Views: 37048
I repeat...Why aren't those concerts made available for general sale to the public via the medium of DVDs? PBS doesn't own the re-sale rights to these performances. They have broadcast rights only. I believe the copyright stays with either Lincoln Center or the performers involved. Since most of th...
- Thu May 04, 2006 11:25 pm
- Forum: ARCHIVED: Classical Music Chatterbox August 2005 to May 31, 2006
- Topic: JOHN ADAMS
- Replies: 5
- Views: 8263
You might try some of his more recent works: On the Transmigration of Souls, Naive and Sentimental Music, Century Rolls, etc. There will hopefully be a recording of Doctor Atomic soon. I heard a bit of it in a broadcast a few years ago (while he was still working on it, obviously) and I really liked...
- Wed Apr 19, 2006 11:40 pm
- Forum: ARCHIVED: Classical Music Chatterbox August 2005 to May 31, 2006
- Topic: Boston area classical performances?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 7774
- Fri Apr 07, 2006 10:57 am
- Forum: ARCHIVED: Classical Music Chatterbox August 2005 to May 31, 2006
- Topic: Boston area classical performances?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 7774
Symphony Hall, Jordan Hall/NEC, and Sanders Theater at Harvard are the three major venues in town. You also might want to look at the schedules for performances at Longy (Cambridge, near Harvard Sq), BU, Berklee, the Boston Public Library, First Church, Emmanuel Church, etc. There is always somethin...
- Wed Apr 05, 2006 11:57 pm
- Forum: ARCHIVED: Classical Music Chatterbox August 2005 to May 31, 2006
- Topic: I'm new here, but not to classical music. Question! :)
- Replies: 13
- Views: 9242
Good suggestions! I'll probably stay away from Debussy, but I was definitely thinking of Mahler. I'm not a big fan of Dickie W....opera = Wagner's where all of that came from though. I strongly recommend looking at, if nothing else, the Prelude to Tristan. There's enough harmonic ambiguity in that ...
- Wed Apr 05, 2006 12:15 am
- Forum: ARCHIVED: Classical Music Chatterbox August 2005 to May 31, 2006
- Topic: I'm new here, but not to classical music. Question! :)
- Replies: 13
- Views: 9242
Welcome to the forum. Where are you doing your MM, if I may ask? I'm a composition/conducting student in Boston at the moment. My suggestions are probably the typical ones: Tristan, Mahler 9, maybe Verklarte Nacht, Afternoon of a Faun (an interesting piece harmonicaly that I just wrote a paper on la...
- Sat Mar 25, 2006 1:37 am
- Forum: ARCHIVED: Classical Music Chatterbox August 2005 to May 31, 2006
- Topic: Very Sad - Sarah Caldwell Dead at 82
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4230
Sad news. I never met Caldwell, but I am institutionaly connected to her in many ways. She was both a graduate and a former faculty member of my school and influenced many of my teachers. It's too bad the company she started in Boston went under. We really do need a decent opera company in this town.
- Sat Mar 04, 2006 1:25 pm
- Forum: ARCHIVED: Classical Music Chatterbox August 2005 to May 31, 2006
- Topic: Levine Flops in Beantown
- Replies: 15
- Views: 7632
I was at the BSO on Wednesday night and I saw the whole thing. As he was walking off he tripped over something on the stage and fell into the path between the seconds and violas. He got back up almost immediately and seemed to be fine, but I guess he bruised his arm or something like that. Anyway, i...
- Tue Jan 10, 2006 3:25 pm
- Forum: ARCHIVED: Classical Music Chatterbox August 2005 to May 31, 2006
- Topic: cornet...
- Replies: 15
- Views: 9506
- Sat Nov 26, 2005 5:06 pm
- Forum: ARCHIVED: Classical Music Chatterbox August 2005 to May 31, 2006
- Topic: Slavonic Dances
- Replies: 23
- Views: 12763
- Thu Nov 24, 2005 5:30 pm
- Forum: ARCHIVED: Classical Music Chatterbox August 2005 to May 31, 2006
- Topic: Temirkanov vs Alsop
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3114
If Alsop improves ticket sales and is a successful saleswoman to corporate sponsors and government the orchestra members will realize what a brilliant artist she really is. ....Since when is marketing prowess a measure of a conductors artistic brilliance? I have expressed my views on Alsop here bef...
- Thu Nov 24, 2005 5:16 pm
- Forum: ARCHIVED: Classical Music Chatterbox August 2005 to May 31, 2006
- Topic: Printed music
- Replies: 15
- Views: 9142
I don't know too much about free music on the internet, but Dover is good for most intents and purposes. Their scores are cheap and reasonably well made (they stay open if you use them enough and bend them backwards a bit). I have problems with Dover because of the accuracy of their scores. Dover sc...
- Tue Nov 01, 2005 11:31 pm
- Forum: ARCHIVED: Classical Music Chatterbox August 2005 to May 31, 2006
- Topic: Neeme Jarvi
- Replies: 13
- Views: 8043
- Sun Oct 30, 2005 12:36 am
- Forum: ARCHIVED: Classical Music Chatterbox August 2005 to May 31, 2006
- Topic: Young Cellist Cops $80G Denmark Prize
- Replies: 7
- Views: 5806
- Tue Oct 18, 2005 7:26 pm
- Forum: ARCHIVED: Classical Music Chatterbox August 2005 to May 31, 2006
- Topic: First Pick: Mahler songs
- Replies: 10
- Views: 5331
Are you sure it isn't the Columbia Symphony Orchestra with Mildred Miller? The NYPO was on the same recording doing Sym #2, but the Wayfarer was not with the NYPO. Very possible. When I typed the post last night I thought it was Columbia, but I double-checked my copy of the CD (a burned copy) and I...
- Mon Oct 17, 2005 11:01 pm
- Forum: ARCHIVED: Classical Music Chatterbox August 2005 to May 31, 2006
- Topic: Critic Goes After Local Conductor: Sky Falls!
- Replies: 12
- Views: 8953
- Mon Oct 17, 2005 10:57 pm
- Forum: ARCHIVED: Classical Music Chatterbox August 2005 to May 31, 2006
- Topic: First Pick: Mahler songs
- Replies: 10
- Views: 5331
The Bernstein/Hampson/VPO recordings of Kindertotenlieder and Songs of a Wayfarer are absolutely gorgeous. Probably my favorite recording of the Kinder. There is also an excellent recording of Bruno Walter doing Wayfarer with the NY Phil that is probably the best recording I've heard of the cycle. I...
- Mon Sep 26, 2005 10:03 pm
- Forum: ARCHIVED: Classical Music Chatterbox August 2005 to May 31, 2006
- Topic: What are you practicing/playing right now?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 10436
Various things. Beethoven 4 in preparation for tomorrow's conducting class, two settings of southern hymns by Thomson for the youth choir, Copland's In The Beginning for the same group, various other choral pieces I might have to run rehearsals on. Otherwise... Mahler 9, Fledermaus, the on-going pro...
- Thu Sep 22, 2005 9:42 pm
- Forum: ARCHIVED: Classical Music Chatterbox August 2005 to May 31, 2006
- Topic: First Pick: Mahler Symphonies
- Replies: 51
- Views: 22887
1. Bernstein/Concertgebouw 2. Bloomstedt/SFSO (1992) 3. No favorites. I'm not a big fan of this piece 4. Mengelberg/Concertgebouw 5. My favorite is a bootleg, so I won't comment. 6. MTT/SFSO 7. Again, no favorites. 8. Solti/CSO (1971) 9. Walter/VPO (1938) - a remarkable recording, for those who don'...
- Mon Sep 19, 2005 10:33 pm
- Forum: ARCHIVED: Classical Music Chatterbox August 2005 to May 31, 2006
- Topic: Louisiana Philharmonic Scattered by Katrina
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3860
Oddly enough, a friend of mine just won fourth horn in the LPO and was supposed to start playing with them this season. He moved down to New Orleans a week before the storm hit and spent 6 days there before having to turn around and head back. Now he's playing around San Francisco again (where he wa...
- Thu Sep 15, 2005 7:42 pm
- Forum: ARCHIVED: Classical Music Chatterbox August 2005 to May 31, 2006
- Topic: Don't Send Your Kid to a Conservatory
- Replies: 24
- Views: 13066
This article is extremely broad and is clearly written by a person who has little direct contact with conservatories. There are many problems with the American conservatories (and they are all different problems). For example, Curtis has a habbit of favoring younger students. I personaly know severa...
- Thu Sep 15, 2005 6:44 pm
- Forum: ARCHIVED: Classical Music Chatterbox August 2005 to May 31, 2006
- Topic: Pierre-Laurent Aimard
- Replies: 8
- Views: 5905
- Thu Sep 15, 2005 6:42 pm
- Forum: ARCHIVED: Classical Music Chatterbox August 2005 to May 31, 2006
- Topic: What are some of your favorite classical music periodicals?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 15974
- Sat Sep 10, 2005 1:28 pm
- Forum: ARCHIVED: Classical Music Chatterbox August 2005 to May 31, 2006
- Topic: Composers' Replies to Critics
- Replies: 8
- Views: 6992
Sam Adler once told me a story about the premier of one of his string quartets many years ago. He arrived late for the concert, and had to take a seat in the back of the hall next to an elderly woman. The woman began talking to him and said something to the effect of "Yes, they're doing Haydn and Be...
- Fri Sep 09, 2005 11:27 am
- Forum: ARCHIVED: Classical Music Chatterbox August 2005 to May 31, 2006
- Topic: PARSIFAL
- Replies: 52
- Views: 21196
Dutchman is also a good introduction to Wagner. Wagner's operas are generally very slowly paced. The actual sequence of events happens slowly with lots of dialogue (and glorious music) in between. It takes some getting used to, but after you get used to the pacing and the way Wagner sets up storys t...
- Tue Aug 30, 2005 6:53 pm
- Forum: ARCHIVED: Classical Music Chatterbox August 2005 to May 31, 2006
- Topic: American vs. European Contemporary Composers
- Replies: 7
- Views: 9045
You don't know much contemporary American music, do you? Babbit, Carter, Wourinen, and Adams are all fine composers but they are hardly representitive of what's being written today. I also think your comment that contemporary European music is devoid of references to outside musical styles is a gros...
- Tue Aug 30, 2005 6:22 pm
- Forum: ARCHIVED: Classical Music Chatterbox August 2005 to May 31, 2006
- Topic: Guess Who the Richest Composer Was?
- Replies: 27
- Views: 17794
When asked how much money he made per year Gershwin replied $250,000.00 (which back then was a lot). Back then???? Even now that's quite a bit of money. As for highest-paid conductor today - probably Levine. The man splits his icome between the Met and the BSO, two of the world wealthiest musical o...
- Sat Aug 27, 2005 10:01 am
- Forum: ARCHIVED: Classical Music Chatterbox August 2005 to May 31, 2006
- Topic: Choral Music
- Replies: 12
- Views: 10747
I didn't say there weren't any professional choral groups around. I simply said that the number of them that perform new music on a regular basis is fairly small. Take the Boston area choral scene, for example. We have the Cantata Singers, which will perform maybe one new choral work per season. We ...
- Fri Aug 26, 2005 3:42 pm
- Forum: ARCHIVED: Classical Music Chatterbox August 2005 to May 31, 2006
- Topic: Choral Music
- Replies: 12
- Views: 10747
There are many. Of the older crowd there are Ligety, Carter, and Pinkham. Peter Schikele, of PDQ Bach fame, has also written some very good "serious" choral music. The youngens are Eric Whitacre, Augusta Reed Thomas, William Hawley, Steven Stucky, Aaron Kernis, Thea Musgrave, Meredith Monk, etc. The...
- Sat Aug 13, 2005 1:18 pm
- Forum: ARCHIVED: Classical Music Chatterbox August 2005 to May 31, 2006
- Topic: Sex and Music!
- Replies: 40
- Views: 36358
What? You think Del Tredici's tone poem "Gay Life" was some how influenced by his sexual orientation? Ha. Absurd. But seriously - a composer's personality is always reflected in their work in one way or another. Does this mean that there are specific characteristics of gay composer's compositions? O...
- Sat Aug 13, 2005 1:05 pm
- Forum: ARCHIVED Classical Music Chatterbox March-August 05
- Topic: John Adams Celebrates Hiroshima
- Replies: 6
- Views: 31768
Lay off the guy. Everything I've heard about this work indicates that it's about Oppenheimer, not Hiroshima. What I've heard is that it deals with all the psycological issues that Oppenheimer went through while he built the bomb and after it was used. Please stop trying to accuse Adams of going for ...
- Wed Aug 10, 2005 6:47 pm
- Forum: ARCHIVED Classical Music Chatterbox March-August 05
- Topic: Opera and Choral
- Replies: 8
- Views: 11485
So much good music to suggest... Here's a short list: Rachmaninov - Vespers (1915). I agree with the other person who recommend this, but I'm going to have to go with the Robert Shaw/Robert Shaw Chorale recording of this work from the early 90's. When looking for choral works, if there's a Shaw reco...
- Wed Aug 10, 2005 6:26 pm
- Forum: ARCHIVED Corner Pub March-August 05
- Topic: Rabbi Calls for Boycott of Edinburgh Klinghoffer Opera
- Replies: 63
- Views: 126287
Only a moral coward would even think of tarting up his anti-Israeli position in a "non-biased" "artistic" work and selling to the naive as such. A moral coward? Now what exactly do you mean by that? My concept of moral cowardice would be hiding behind the ideals of whatever party happens to be most...