Comments on: My friend Wickham has a Credenza http://nicomuhly.com/news/2008/my-friend-wickham-has-a-credenza/ The official website of the New York-based composer Nico Muhly. Thu, 02 Feb 2012 05:46:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2 By: maura http://nicomuhly.com/news/2008/my-friend-wickham-has-a-credenza/comment-page-1/#comment-5909 maura Wed, 15 Oct 2008 19:22:06 +0000 http://nicomuhly.com/?p=816#comment-5909 I agree with killian. Case in point, the Baltimore Symphony concert I attended at Strathmore last December, which had Beethoven's Pastoral on the second half of the program, but 2 Aaron Jay Kernis pieces on the first part. delightful. Also I attended this SFS concert mentioned in Civic Center, and I found it distinctly odd. The pieces were all so meaty, and felt like they could have each been the centerpiece of their own concert. And I rather liked the Tchaikovsky. Also I like your use of Jimmý. I feel like it should be prounounced Jimmayyy! I agree with killian. Case in point, the Baltimore Symphony concert I attended at Strathmore last December, which had Beethoven’s Pastoral on the second half of the program, but 2 Aaron Jay Kernis pieces on the first part. delightful.

Also I attended this SFS concert mentioned in Civic Center, and I found it distinctly odd. The pieces were all so meaty, and felt like they could have each been the centerpiece of their own concert. And I rather liked the Tchaikovsky.

Also I like your use of Jimmý. I feel like it should be prounounced Jimmayyy!

]]> By: killian http://nicomuhly.com/news/2008/my-friend-wickham-has-a-credenza/comment-page-1/#comment-5893 killian Wed, 15 Oct 2008 12:22:00 +0000 http://nicomuhly.com/?p=816#comment-5893 YESYESYEYSYES! and third, "the thing that you didn’t know that you wanted that some genius-ass curator set out for you" thanks you for articulating this---that shock of recognition (you've written about it before) when you see/hear something that fills a longing you did not know existed until it was filled. sounds erotic. IS erotic. and oh-so-many-other-things, like CRUCIAL. thank you. YESYESYEYSYES! and third, “the thing that you didn’t know that you wanted that some genius-ass curator set out for you” thanks you for articulating this—that shock of recognition (you’ve written about it before) when you see/hear something that fills a longing you did not know existed until it was filled. sounds erotic. IS erotic. and oh-so-many-other-things, like CRUCIAL. thank you.

]]> By: Sam http://nicomuhly.com/news/2008/my-friend-wickham-has-a-credenza/comment-page-1/#comment-5838 Sam Tue, 14 Oct 2008 01:30:51 +0000 http://nicomuhly.com/?p=816#comment-5838 <i>I think there is a way to do it so that everybody wins. </i> Well, of course there is, and the good news is that a fair number of orchestras are starting to at least try to program that way, and without hearkening back to the days when a single work of unlistenable modernist dreck was presented as the medicine audiences had to choke down to get to the Brahms they'd come to hear. That the NY Phil obviously isn't going this route may be a reflection more of their unique situation (being the Orchestra Of Record in a city that's already bubbling over with quality new music performances for those who like that sort of thing) than of any national trend among major orchestras. Most of us aren't anywhere near as creative as LA, but at least a lot of us see the value in trying to get there... I think there is a way to do it so that everybody wins.

Well, of course there is, and the good news is that a fair number of orchestras are starting to at least try to program that way, and without hearkening back to the days when a single work of unlistenable modernist dreck was presented as the medicine audiences had to choke down to get to the Brahms they’d come to hear.

That the NY Phil obviously isn’t going this route may be a reflection more of their unique situation (being the Orchestra Of Record in a city that’s already bubbling over with quality new music performances for those who like that sort of thing) than of any national trend among major orchestras. Most of us aren’t anywhere near as creative as LA, but at least a lot of us see the value in trying to get there…

]]> By: Grrg http://nicomuhly.com/news/2008/my-friend-wickham-has-a-credenza/comment-page-1/#comment-5761 Grrg Sun, 12 Oct 2008 19:52:40 +0000 http://nicomuhly.com/?p=816#comment-5761 From an essay collected in Wayne Koestenbaum's <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0345434609/ref=sib_dp_srch_pop?v=search-inside&keywords=fish+pants&go.x=9&go.y=8&go=Go%21#" rel="nofollow">Cleavage</a></i> (originally published in... <i>New York</i> Magazine): <blockquote>"1984: at a now-defunct boutique called Ben's Village, I bought a pair of cotton tropical-print unisex pants that I named 'fish pants' because blousy fish swam on them in wallpaper patterns. A friend had advised, when I'd told him there was no room in my life for fish pants, 'Change your life to fit the pants.'"</blockquote> I have tried to live my life according to this maxim. From an essay collected in Wayne Koestenbaum’s Cleavage (originally published in… New York Magazine):

“1984: at a now-defunct boutique called Ben’s Village, I bought a pair of cotton tropical-print unisex pants that I named ‘fish pants’ because blousy fish swam on them in wallpaper patterns. A friend had advised, when I’d told him there was no room in my life for fish pants, ‘Change your life to fit the pants.’”

I have tried to live my life according to this maxim.

]]> By: SMB http://nicomuhly.com/news/2008/my-friend-wickham-has-a-credenza/comment-page-1/#comment-5755 SMB Sun, 12 Oct 2008 18:18:12 +0000 http://nicomuhly.com/?p=816#comment-5755 An homosexual in Portland is loving this, too. An homosexual in Portland is loving this, too.

]]> By: Craig http://nicomuhly.com/news/2008/my-friend-wickham-has-a-credenza/comment-page-1/#comment-5752 Craig Sun, 12 Oct 2008 17:58:25 +0000 http://nicomuhly.com/?p=816#comment-5752 loving this. loving this.

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