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Gary
Social climber
Right outside of Delacroix
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Jan 30, 2013 - 11:43pm PT
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I like Guilini and Kempf was one of the best. At a meet and greet with the LA Phil a violinist still had awe in her voice when she talked about playing for Giulini.
Friday we will see the Joffrey Ballet's recreation of the original Rite of Sping. It's gonna be great.
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Edit: I like the old school stuff. We were THAT close to having a recording by Liszt. Just missed it.
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Gary
Social climber
Right outside of Delacroix
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The Rite was awesome. For once being high in the balcony was a plus. Nobody was nodding off during this, it was really thrilling. I only regret we didn't get tickets for another night.
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HuecoRat
Trad climber
NJ
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Just went to Carnegie Hall to hear my eldest son playing first horn on the Firebird with the Oberlin Conservatory Orchestra. Awesome!
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JEleazarian
Trad climber
Fresno CA
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Very cool, Hueco!
John
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Fossil climber
Trad climber
Atlin, B. C.
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The original post - rehearsal of Brahms Second symphony - that was great. Had to go put the CD on the sound system. It was what we were rehearsing when I joined the U of Pacific Conservatory Orchestra and I’ve loved it ever since. Being a trombonist (then) it was especially rewarding to build toward that great, triumphal final chord, which was cut off here. It has been decades - hell, half a century plus - since I was part of such an ensemble, and I still miss it.
Another nice thing, brief as it was, was watching musicians which were all business and didn’t bob around like they were having seizures. Seems to have become the style these days that everybody who can afford to move their instruments much “interprets” their musicianship with so much body English that the whole orchestra appears to be squirming. Worst offenders - the violins and small woodwinds. Watched an oboist with the Berlin Phiharmonic lurching about with such ecstatic, egotistic abandon that if he’d hit his knee he’d have driven that double reed right through his palate. And I have to admit, I sort of wished he would. The music was good, though, with eyes closed.
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Gary
Social climber
Right outside of Delacroix
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Virgil Thomson had this idea of musical portraits. People would sit for their portraits as Thomson would compose them. Interesting stuff.
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Gary
Social climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Apr 16, 2013 - 06:46pm PT
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My piano teacher had her senior recital last Sunday. She did very well, but she really nailed this:
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It was spectacular in every sense of the word. (you gotta love the look on Horowitz's face as he walks off stage)
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Gary
Social climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Apr 16, 2013 - 11:57pm PT
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The old school pianists really had something going on.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Apr 17, 2013 - 12:59am PT
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Yes, plus they didn't indulge in mini-skirts and over-the-top theatrics.
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selfish man
Gym climber
Austin, TX
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Apr 17, 2013 - 08:47pm PT
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the fact that no new Richters, Horowitz's or Gould's seem to have appeared in the last few decades (at least to my knowledge) must be indicative of something, but I'm not sure what it is... The dominance of Lang Lang's, on the other hand, is not entirely surprising
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Apr 17, 2013 - 08:59pm PT
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I aver that Ashkenazy is the last truly great and he hasn't performed
for quite a while.
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