Comments on: I don’t need to hear it

By: Hum

Hum — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 23:36:10 +0000

My 4 yr ol son and I just watched that searing britten lachrymae and at the end of it he chimed, “that man looks like he just fell in love with that music”. the violist. first time that I know of him using “fell in love”.

thanks for the lovely breadcrumbs throughout. actually Tibor dropped the first, then Maira’s kids stories, to the only tune…a straight path

Perhaps that violist wants to museMarry that britten.

By: Br!on

Br!on — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 02:13:13 +0000

Well. I never. Now my friends and I are using your usage of “Gay Marry” as a verb. Is this the right post to put this in? Cuz, I want to gay marry you right now.

By: larry-bob

larry-bob — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 04:30:21 +0000

Nico, I think you should be familiar with Villiers de l’Isle-Adam’s “The Secret of the Old Music” which involves finding a percussionist to play the Chinese Bells. The link to the story should appear with my name.

By: David Nice

David Nice — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 16:30:07 +0000

I should have read the rest of your latest entry before mouthing off. Powerfully put, that last paragraph – thanks for that. Being quite flippant on what ought to be a serious subject, British music man Byron Adams had me rolling around at a post-Bard supper with his memories of Henri Sauguet. Think about it, say it with a certain NY inflection…

By: David Nice

David Nice — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 16:26:08 +0000

Enlightening – I was especially pleased to see Pat Nixon’s ‘This is prophetic’ (which has some of my favourite poetry from the quirky Alice Adams) in the LAPO gala.

Now, we’ve been discussing this elsewhere, but you might like to know – if you don’t already – of two interesting segues. One was a couple of weeks back, when the great Vladimir Jurowski let the last whistles of Ligeti’s Atmospheres fade away, continued to beat time for twenty seconds or so, and then in stole the bassoon for The Rite of Spring.

This reminded me of what David Robertson did with the BBCSO a couple of seasons back: endeth the last pizzicato of the Tristan Prelude, into the silence glides the opening of Schoenberg’s Erwartung.

So two of our wackiest conductors are certainly having their say in the programming. Of course, what often looks good on paper may not work in practice.

By: Jack Curtis Dubowsky

Jack Curtis Dubowsky — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 03:14:27 +0000

Talk about Triangle! I just posted a new video, and it has Fred Morgan’s triangle all over it!!! It even appears in the cover pic in a blue light. Fred uses one of these newer high-tech beaters though. But yeah, triangles are great for monkeys to play, although the traditional monkey instrument I always think of are those little cymbals. I have sometimes wondered about the musical ability of monkeys, chimps, bonoboes… Have they made music observed by some anthropologists? How do they program their concerts? Do they program a lot of new music? Because I wish orchestras were commissioning local composers… but I really don’t observe that it happens all that much.

Oh yeah. the video with the triangle.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4TXNiu6o-o&fmt=18

BTW, if you add &fmt=18 to youtube video urls that already have a high quality option, you get the extra added benefit of STEREO. Try it out.

By: Doctor Dean

Doctor Dean — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 22:44:59 +0000

of course, these folks are having their moment of hysteria. union square, if they are actually arriving there, is just to the place to have it. don’t blame them a bit.

By: Amanda Mae

Amanda Mae — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:37:39 +0000

Those people are their own punishments.