{"id":3247,"date":"2012-01-26T21:01:18","date_gmt":"2012-01-27T02:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicomuhly.com\/?p=3247"},"modified":"2012-01-27T03:14:30","modified_gmt":"2012-01-27T08:14:30","slug":"i-am-sitting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicomuhly.com\/news\/2012\/i-am-sitting\/","title":{"rendered":"I am sitting"},"content":{"rendered":"
I’m sitting backstage at Benaroya Hall in Seattle simultaneously re-packing my bags and listening to these outrageous republican debates. I love it so much! I’m going to do a pre-concert moment in about half an hour’s time\u00a0\u2014 I’ve been sent a sort of loose set of guidelines for what we might talk about and it’s a lot of Schubert \u2014 it’s the Unfinished<\/em> on the same program as tonight. Last night, I premiered, along with Owen, Shara & Bryce a new work by David Lang that basically extracts all the “death” bits from all the Schubert songs. The piece, Death Speaks<\/em>, is meant to be a companion to his Little Match Girl Passion<\/em>, with which it was paired last night. I met Paul Hillier! I am kind of his biggest fan but I refrained from whipping out my “No. 1 Choral Music Foam Finger” and writing the Psalm settings from The Cave<\/em> on my chest in latex paint.<\/p>\n (an aside: has everybody seen, recently, the Ian Bostridge videos<\/a> for Winterreise? He looks SO fine in these videos although it’s too bad it’s no pictures of Julius Drake. Julius Drake, in addition to sounding like a lesser Ducktales character, is one of the best collaborative pianists ever in the history of ever. He’s done albums with everybody you’ve ever known about, and is a really sensitive and wonderful performer. Apparently he and my homegirl Alice Coote just did a Winterreise at the Wigmore Hall that made everybody throw their knickers at the stage; it’s heartening to know that it’s still music you can do in any octave about which people will lose their shit.)<\/p>\n