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Gary
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Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Jan 26, 2015 - 08:58am PT
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Nice, Jim. Baroque rocks!
Saturday afternoon we went to the Colburn School free recitals given by the high and middle school students enrolled in their Music Academy.
This tiny Asian-American girl, 12 or 13 at the most, came out and introduced her piece in a tiny, quiet, and shy voice. She sat down at the Steinway and transformed into a pianistic dynamo. She should have been playing across the street at Disney Hall. Her phrasing, voicing and general dynamic control was exceptional. We're looking forward to hear her perform again. If she doesn't get distracted by adolescence, she's going to be a big deal.
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JEleazarian
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Fresno CA
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Thanks for the posts. I particularly appreciated those on this page, because I've played them in public for my church. My daughter and I (she's the violinist) played "Meditation" for an offeratory a couple of years ago, and I played the first movement of the Haydn Sonata Hob. XVI 50 (the same movement Brendel plays in the You Tube clip) as a prelude a year or two before that.
We normally have our organist doing all of the incidental music, but when she is absent, she sometimes condescends to let me take her place on the piano.
I think the Haydn piano sonatas are underappreciated in the modern repertoire. They may require less virtuosity than those of Mozart, but they have such musical richness that they deserve to be played more.
"Meditation" has a particularly special place in my heart, because it my father-in-law's favorite piece. He was an excellent violinist before WWII, but stopped playing after the War because of work commitment. He eventually gave his violin (made in 1824 in England) to my daughter, and we've played "Meditation" for him many, many times.
Hearing it on the post on this thread was particularly poignant for me because we had to place my father-in-law in a memory-care facility a couple of weeks ago. He'd been living with us since June of 2012 because of age-related dementia, that finally has progressed to the point where he doesn't remember any of us (including my mother-in-law, who also lives with us), and has trouble keeping his balance. If he fell, I was often the only one who could lift him -- and I work outside the home.
Thanks again for giving me such sweet memories.
John
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Feb 10, 2015 - 09:26am PT
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LA Chamber Orchestra lead by Jeffrey Kahane will do Mozart's Requiem with the LA Master
Chorale 19 Feb. It won't get any better than that! Be there or be square and feel yer finiteness!
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Gary
Social climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Feb 11, 2015 - 09:48pm PT
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...and I played the first movement of the Haydn Sonata Hob. XVI 50 (the same movement Brendel plays in the You Tube clip) as a prelude a year or two before that.
I think the Haydn piano sonatas are underappreciated in the modern repertoire. They may require less virtuosity than those of Mozart, but they have such musical richness that they deserve to be played more.
John, I piked up a copy of the Haydn sonatas the other day. I can't play them, and probably never will, but I can follow the score, which I did with the Brendel recoding of number 50. What a hoot! Reading along with it really was revealing. It must be incredibly fun to play.
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Norwegian
Trad climber
dancin on the tip of god's middle finger
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Feb 15, 2015 - 05:37am PT
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the anchor on the local classical station
indicated that this piece originated
when a gal asked maurice to compose
a piece to which she could dance
on top of a table at the tavern.
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anita514
Gym climber
Great White North
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Feb 15, 2015 - 05:45am PT
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I HATE the Bolero.
Thanks for ruining my Sunday.
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Gary
Social climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Feb 15, 2015 - 09:09am PT
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Anita, you're posting on Supertopo, your Sunday is already ruined.
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Norwegian
Trad climber
dancin on the tip of god's middle finger
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Feb 15, 2015 - 09:20am PT
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sunday is saturday's
unborn fetus dripping
out of the midnight seam;
innocoent as f*#k.
i aborted your dream.
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Feb 18, 2015 - 05:04am PT
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hey there say, mouse... wow, this is GOING to be neat... will come back adn see it this afternoon... got to shovel drive and go back to sleep, :))
if not, the "ye ol' snowplow" will really mess up:
"ye ol' WAY to get the ye ol' CAR out of drive" type deal...
got to get the mail out to the box, too...
but i will check this out... parts of up, by fast scan, look
"really funny" but all in all, really a neat jaunt, to powerful music...
got to run, shovel, mail and sleep...
got a deep into paint, day, to enjoy, well, after some coffee!!!
think i WILL put the "ye ol' computer into classical music" stage,
while i do it... :)
happy good morning... i am type-out for now... :)
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Gary
Social climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Feb 24, 2015 - 01:07pm PT
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Here in the centennial of WWI, it is worth noting that Enrique Granados died after the ship he was aboard was torpedoed by a German submarine. It is a pity.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Feb 24, 2015 - 01:22pm PT
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So I think I've calmed down enough to type after last Wednesday's LACO
performance of Mozart's Requiem. In a word: heavy duty! So, the players
and the choir come out, then the soloists and Jeffrey Kahane. The lights
go down, as in out completely. Then a spotlight illuminates one corner
of the stage where two guys are sitting at a table. They start talking.
WTF? I paid hundreds to hear two guys talk? We wondered what was up with
the program as it said:
Introduction
Intermission
The Requiem
Long story short the two guys did a couple of scenes from Pushkin's "Mozart
and Salieri". Then Jeffrey Kahane took almost an hour deconstructing The
Requiem in its usual incarnation a la Süssmayr and juxtaposing the Robert
Levin version which we would hear after the intermission. If an hour of
this sounds dry then you would be verrry wrong. It was absolutely spellbinding.
Kahane is a great speaker and educator besides being a good friend of Levin.
And when the orchestra and choir did the various side-by-side comparisons
Süssmayr's efforts were plodding and pedantic as Kahane noted, "Süssmayr's
problem was that he couldn't write a fugue." LOL!
The trouble is there is only one recording of the Levin version by a not so
great orchestra. The LACO recorded Wednesday's performance so I hope it gets
released. It was stupendous.
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JEleazarian
Trad climber
Fresno CA
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Feb 24, 2015 - 02:10pm PT
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Thanks, Gary. I've always enjoyed Granados's piano music. One of these days when I'm particularly ambitious (which will probably coincide with airborne pigs), I'll have to move beyond the dances to the "Goyescas."
Incidentally, I just learned how Granados died last Sunday on our local National Leftist Radio affiliate. Granados was on a concert tour in America with his wife during World War I. They missed their boat heading back to Europe. The boat they eventually boarded was torpedoed, and Mrs. Granados, who couldn't swim, ended up in the water. The composer drowned trying to rescue his wife.
John
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Gary
Social climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Feb 24, 2015 - 02:26pm PT
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Reilly, thanks for the report. I always enjoy good pre-concert talks. Unfortunately,for me, it's almost always Alan Chapman. Once got to hear Jean-Yves Thibaudet before Gershwin's concerto. Glad the requiem came off so well.
John, bet you don't regret, now, one bit of all the work to obtain your level of play. It must be very satisfying, I won't say consoling, to be able to play works like the dances.
The Spanish, and Latin, composers are quite enjoyable. I was lucky enough to hear Charles Dutoit rehearse the LA Phil in Ginastera's Variations for Orchestra.
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