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Just wondering....I'd always suspected Burns to be a cheap mainstreamer--at least, going by the opinions of those who've seen his "Jazz"--but seeing/hearing the ads for this one, and reading the synopses on pbs.com, I just about threw my hands up in the air and said, "Ken, how could you sink this lo...

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The Second is a work that, until recently, caused me frustration. That main tune to the last movement literally steals the thunder and sweeps aside all that came before it. There's no way the average schmoe in the street can exit the concert hall or the stereo without that tune--and that tune only--...

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Much as I've always avoided it, this is a phenomenon that's possibly becoming a permanent thing with today's concert audiences. Leonard Slatkin doesn't appear to make a fuss over it in his live-streaming Detroit Symphony concerts. And for years it's been the norm at BSO Tanglewood concerts.

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I have only just now noticed this thread at the top of the list.

Please add my regards.

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That is such an infectiously catchy tune in the finale! I worked on it with a violinist during my last term as an undergrad. Tune was on my lips all the time.

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When I still lived in Seattle in the 90s, He & his Pittsburgh Symphony appeared at Benaroya Hall. They concluded with Berlioz' Symphonie Fantastique. The normally noisy & impolite Seattle audience was so quiet--especially in the creepy sections--that you could've heard a pin drop. Gerard Schwarz nev...

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Trump and his wife's refusal to attend these ceremonies seem, to me, to be the only thing he's doing right. (Though, to do so IS better form and more presidential. )

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I speak, of course, of MTT himself--Michael Tilson Thomas. Someone who made a genuine contribution to the arts. It's almost enough ( almost, mind you!) to make up for all the Steve Martins, Stings, Lionel Richies, Norman Lears, and rock groups like the Eagles or Led Zeppelin, who won it in the past....

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Six or seven years ago, when I subscribed to the Rhapsody download site, I custom-duped for myself a 6-CD set of Franck works. It excludes the D minor Symphony (not for want of liking it, but to provide his other output with a fair airing). It's got Grand piece symphonique, Les Djinns, the Piano Qui...

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The slow movement of his organ work Grand piece symphonique is one of the most achingly gorgeous things ever written.

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Franck's star has really faded with the decades. Time was when his was REQUIRED repertoire with all the French conductors. I don't believe he was an active part of Dutoit's literature, was he? But the orchestral tone poem Le Chasseur maudit is still trotted out from time to time. Franck deserves bet...

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Sweet baby Jesus!!!! Let me say, this is the first time I've ever seen fit to use this particular violation of the Third Commandment. I'm living proof of the oppressiveness of 'toxic masculinity' and the constrictions it's worked--insidiously--on my own development as a male. In grade school my moth...

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I hear you, Lance....I got one last week myself.

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Heartiest congrats, Lance!

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As I continue to dive wholeheartedly into the current vinyl celebration, I've been bingeing out particularly on orders from philadelphiamusic, found on the discogs.com site. This site's far from having wholly reputable sellers, but philadelphiamusic has a fairly stringent grading system, as well as ...

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As for myself, I was entranced by vinyl ever since my first record player 55 years ago--not merely the music, but the ways in which discs were pressed, and just watching them go round and round. I'm one of those contributing to the high figures of used vinyl, ordering mainly over ebay and discogs.co...

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Definitely of more than passing interest.....

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There's more than a few of us out there......

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I've nothing new to add to the above except: He will be deeply missed.

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I finally acquired the Puccini volume of Time-Life records' Great Men of Music series. This now completes that series for me. I've now got all 30 volumes.....a total of 44 years to assemble. Really, though, I'll never have a fully complete edition: each volume contained a giant booklet with a fairly...

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I'll go with the historical (pre-stereo) guys any old day, though I'll give some allowance for Karajan's complete symphony set.

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Best wishes to Lance & Co. !

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SXM's all-Xmas channel doesn't play any of the old religious carols.

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Having recently had the long-lost pleasure of getting 20 LPs for a buck a throw, I've found the thrill addictive and come away with another haul, this time on discogs.com, with the shop called philadelphiamusic. They're not like the usual disreputable sellers I get on this site, as they have very st...

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Only just now did I get on this page. I'll certainly do my bit to aid Karl & family.

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These past two weeks I’ve been celebrating the installation of a new cartridge by trying it out on a pile of unplayed vinyl….stuff I’ve had over the decades and never played. There’re two Murray Hill sets of Mozart, and my near-complete Time-Life Great Men of music series. The latter include LPs I’v...

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At the same sale mentioned above, I got these miniature scores for a dime a throw (they've been really desperate to get rid of their sheet music): Ravel's La Valse Bartok's Divertimento Stravinsky's Octet for Winds Bach Motets #1, 2 & 3 Brahms' Haydn Variations Strauss' Don Quixote Saint-Saens' Pian...

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....They were a buck apiece, so didn't break the bank for me.

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Wow! You know how to pick 'em! Some great material there. Thanks. It's great to know Greeley, Colo. had many classical music fans, thanks in no small measure to the Univ. of Northern Colorado. (There were two copies of the Fleisher/Brahms; I do know that one of my profs there had a copy--he was a F...

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Two weeks ago, I picked up a load of about twenty vinyl albums at a sale taking place at my alma mater. Among them were: A Chabrier Concert ……Dervaux, Orch. Colonne (Seraphim S-60108) Dvorak Slavonic Dances (complete)…..Dorati, Bamberg Sym. (Turnabout QTV-S 34672) Bartok Concerto for Orchestra ; Jan...

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And what, out of this group, captured your musical heart the most? This isn't today, but rather the LPs I listened to the past few weeks, using the old cartridge and saving the new cartridge for some fresh, unopened vinyl: Weber's Oberon and Der Freischutz Overtures, and Smetana's Moldau (Szell, NY...

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This isn't today, but rather the LPs I listened to the past few weeks, using the old cartridge and saving the new cartridge for some fresh, unopened vinyl: Weber's Oberon and Der Freischutz Overtures, and Smetana's Moldau (Szell, NYP) Tchaikovsky's Symphony #4 (Koussevitzky) Gershwin's Cuban Overtur...

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An update on my near-complete Time-Life Great Men of Music LP sets. Off of ebay I got, at an attractive price, two brand new, unopened sets, the Wagner one (which I hadn't yet got), and the Mendelssohn (to replace the crappy-condition copy I got off of discogs.com). Now, it's all down to just gettin...

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Here's a link to its discography--http://www.bsnpubs.com/warner/time-life ... atmen.html

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This past year or so I've been slowly bringing to completion my library of the seventies' Time-Life Great Men of Music series. My mother subscribed to this for me up until the time I moved away to college, so my collection stopped at the Chopin volume. So, I've acquired, mainly thru the ebay and dis...

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As long as I'm fleetingly reunited with you folks on this site: I'm in full accord with Stephen Colbert's conclusion about Putin and Trump. It's got to be the only logical one. I thought this for several months, and I only found out about Colbert's big stir a few days ago after doing a Google using ...

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Let's just say it was a grand experiment that didn't work out.

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I swear, I'd be filthy rich if I had a dime for everyone I've heard use the word "trumpetist."

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Ormandy's April '59 recording of Danse Macabre had what I always considered the best performance of the concertmaster's part. The Sony reissue doesn't list either the producer or the soloist. Could it have been Brusilow, or was it Jacob Krachmalnik?

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I see some consolation in this thread's title. Being a cripple, both in keyboard technique as well as overall physique, I can see why and how I wouldn't have gone far at all as a recitalist, and today it's a lost cause for all but a mere handful.

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If the phrase "fruitful partnership" applied to anything, it was definitely MTT & SFS. Tilson Thomas (that's how I've always rather cumbersomely referred to him--I'm not the one who initiated that trend, however) led the pack in terms of inventive, innovative programming on the part of maestros. I d...

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Where do I stand on Trump's supporters? Well, whenever I go on the treadmill at the senior center, a lot of simple folk who claim Trump's completely tactless statements exactly mirrored what they wanted to say, simply has me seething inside. Well-meaning seniors who're part of the so-called "heartla...

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Speaking of tone-deafness: I read in a Stereo Review article from about half a century ago, that Francis Scott Key, who bent and twisted the charming melody of the old English drinking song "To Anacreon In Heaven" to make our national anthem, was tone-deaf. Not only that, but his children and grandc...

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Speaking as an ex-keyboardist, I distinctly recall, in my volumes of piano rags, that Joplin specifically wanted these works to be rendered in a classical manner, and that huge embellishments and liberties are a decided no-no. He wanted them to be treated as seriously as a Chopin piece. Remember, to...

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Actually, as of late 1973 there was a big revival in general of Joplin's music--E. Power Biggs released two albums on Columbia in which he played Joplin's music on the pedal harpsichord (not really the best medium for this music), and pianists like Max Morath were busy plying their trade. Gunther Sc...

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John F wrote: ↑
Sat Apr 08, 2017 2:03 pm
You don't find Sibelius very often in American concert programs these days, except of course in Minneapolis.

We mustn't discount the work of our contemporary Scandinavian maestros and their maintenance of the symphonies in the active repertory.

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There's Johan Svendsen, all of whose symphonies were recorded years ago on EMI by Maris Jansons and he Oslo Phiharmonic.

Maybe no big points for profundity, but quite entertaining nonetheless.

Neeme Jarvi often plays his Romanza as an encore.

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From what I remember of my studies, Bartok's three big influences were R. Strauss, Debussy, and Brahms.

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Oh, by the way:

I've had a new word kicking around in my head many years now--a name that perfectly describes Beecham devotees:

The "Beech-nuts." (Ties in with his dad's chewing gum business.)

I'm amazed no one else has ever thought of it.

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This work would be languishing in obscurity were it not for the efforts of Alsop & Jarvi. It's about two decades overdue for a new recording. It boasts one of the true "ringers" among symphonic themes (i.e., the one used as the basis of the fugue--the supposed "third" movement out of "five"). The Th...

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