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Ksolem
Trad climber
Monrovia, California
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Dec 23, 2015 - 11:36am PT
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Oh man, I hadn't heard about Masur. Among other things he was the best thing that happened to the New York Philharmonic in decades. I got his recording of Shostakovitch Leningrad Symphony a couple years ago. My mind is still blown.
It's interesting how that all worked out. After Boulez's disastrous tenure the orchestra needed to be fixed. Zubin Mehta was the perfect choice for the job, so Masur got to take the helm of an amazing orchestra, and he made the most of it.
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Gary
Social climber
Where in the hell is Major Kong?
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Dec 28, 2015 - 01:23pm PT
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Thanks for all the posts, lots of great listening material.
Kris, driving back from Rubidoux a couple of years ago MJ and I listened to Mahler's 1st on KUSC. Have no idea of orchestra or conductor but we were transfixed the entire time.
"There are three kinds of pianists: Jewish pianists, homosexual pianists, and bad pianists." - Vladimir_Horowitz
Here's one for eKat:
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JEleazarian
Trad climber
Fresno CA
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Dec 28, 2015 - 02:33pm PT
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Paul Martzen and I sing in an auditioned chamber chorale, Fresno Choral Artists, so ST contributors form 40% of its bass section. FCA performed several of Lauridsen's works. I think my favorite that I've actually sung are the "Chansons des Roses." Whenever I get stuck with a thorn, I find myself singing "contre qui, rose, avez-vous employer les epines?" (Tr. "Against whom, rose, have you used your thorns?")
John
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Gary
Social climber
Where in the hell is Major Kong?
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Jan 10, 2016 - 11:46am PT
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John, I was looking through a scanned copy of the Starr King register that's posted online somewhere, and some guy from Fresno had signed it.
Yesterday at Canterbury Records in Pasadena I ran across a CD of Maria Yudina playing the work of some of her contemporaries. Really good CD.
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Franz Schubert - Gesang der Geister über den Wassern
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Song of the Spirits over the Waters
The soul of man
Is like the water:
It comes from heaven,
It returns to heaven,
And down again
To earth must go,
Ever changing.
When from the high,
Sheer wall of rock
The pure stream gushes,
It sprays its lovely vapor
In billowing clouds
Towards the smooth rock,
And lightly received,
It goes enshrouded,
Softly hissing
Down to the deep.
Cliffs tower,
Opposing its fall.
Annoyed, it foams
Step by step
Into the abyss.
In a flat bed
It slinks down the grassy vale,
And in the waveless lake
All the stars
Feast on their likeness.
Wind is the wave's
Handsome suitor;
Wind stirs up from the depths
Foaming billows.
Soul of man,
How like to the water!
Fate of man,
How like to the wind!
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Feb 15, 2016 - 01:19pm PT
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Kathleen Battle and Lawrence Skrobacs - Nacht und Träume - Schubert
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Holy night, you sink down;
Dreams, too, drift down
Like your moonlight through space,
Through the quiet hearts of men;
They listen with delight
Calling out when day awakens:
Return, holy night!
Fair dreams, return!
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Gary
Social climber
Where in the hell is Major Kong?
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Stalin's favorite pianist plays a composer loathed by Hitler:
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Really like the way she plays the fugue here.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Embracing my Bohemian roots I've worked up a passable Marche Slav. I'd post it up on
YouTube if:
A. I knew how, and
B. I had no pride. ;-)
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Gary
Social climber
Where in the hell is Major Kong?
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Send me the file and I'll put it up. We'd all love to hear it!
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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We'd all love to hear it!
Ho, man, I bet you would! I did say passable, but that's relative. ;-)
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Gary
Social climber
Where in the hell is Major Kong?
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We are our own worst critics. I recently played at my teacher's recital. Me and a bunch of 8 year olds! I really butchered my piece, I thought. Afterwards, people were coming up to tell me how terrific it was.
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