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Gary
Social climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Sep 26, 2017 - 10:47am PT
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^^ And thankfully so.
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Gary
Social climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Sep 28, 2017 - 06:52am PT
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Marlow, I had a chance to listen to that. Thanks for posting, Part is an interesting character.
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Sep 28, 2017 - 08:49am PT
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Gary.
I'm glad to hear.
The reason why I return to Pärt time and time again, is that Pärt's soundscape resonates with the calm part of my inner mindscape...
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Gary
Social climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Sep 28, 2017 - 09:19am PT
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Maybe that's why Pope Francis is honoring him with the Ratzinger Prize for outstanding achievement in theology.
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Sep 28, 2017 - 09:24am PT
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Hehe... I'm afraid that's of a more political nature. ^^^^
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Gary
Social climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Sep 28, 2017 - 09:57am PT
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No, Reilly. I saw him a few years ago when he did both books of the Well Tempered Clavier. He's amazing. I was thinking of trading in one of my Friday Casual 1 tickets for Schiff, but don't know which show to trade. Give up Hillary Hahn? Yefim Bronfman? No way. Beethoven 9th with the Dude? And the other is a world premiere organ concerto.
And what about Yuja Wang? Gil Shaham? Perlman and Argerich? I'm going to go broke!
edit: Wow, $20 tickets for Schiff.
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selfish man
Gym climber
Austin, TX
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Very jealous of your concert schedule. If I lived in the area, I'd also be sure to make the drive to hear this guy in Irvine:
http://igor-levit.de/category/schedule/page/2/?lang=en
Heard him play the complete Shostakovich preludes & fugues in the Zurich Tonhalle. He kept the audience completely gripped for the duration of the 4-hour concert
No, Reilly. I saw him a few years ago when he did both books of the Well Tempered Clavier. He's amazing. I was thinking of trading in one of my Friday Casual 1 tickets for Schiff, but don't know which show to trade. Give up Hillary Hahn? Yefim Bronfman? No way. Beethoven 9th with the Dude? And the other is a world premiere organ concerto.
And what about Yuja Wang? Gil Shaham? Perlman and Argerich? I'm going to go broke!
edit: Wow, $20 tickets for Schiff.
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Gary
Social climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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selfish man, I'm very jealous of you. That sounds like a great show. The LA Phil is, or used to be under Salonen, very adventurous, but not enough for Shostakovich.
This, BTW, is quite wondrous:
[Click to View YouTube Video]
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Nov 17, 2017 - 08:16am PT
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Went to an impressive exhibition of Marc Chagall at the LA County Museum of Art yesterday.
It focused on his involvement with music and ballet. It also had a number of his paintings that
featured music which was a large part of his upbringing as a Ukrainian Jew, you know, fiddlers
on roofs and such. Anyway, fascinating stuff especially as described by a lovely Czech docent.
The show featured his gouaches/studies/sketches for the costumes and sets of Aleko,
Massine's treatment of the Pushkin poem set to Tchaikovsky's Trio in A Minor, along with
the original hand painted costumes. Interestingly the 1942 production was moved from New York
to Mexico City because the stage union in New York refused to allow Chagall to paint the
backdrops! Maybe the bolshie buggers didn't think him qualified, or were they punishing him
for fleeing the Soviet Union (which he initially embraced) in 1922?
Anyway, they also had reproductions of backdrops and costumes, along with the original
studies for same, for his 1945 Firebird, 1958 Daphnis and Chloé, and 1967 The Magic Flute
productions. Apparently Mozart was his favorite composer and he most enjoyed working on
on The Magic Flute, also my favorite, being a bit of a Papageno, if you will.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Nov 26, 2017 - 06:56pm PT
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Can’t believe I’m the one to announce Dima Hvorostovsky’s passing at 55 from brain cancer. There was a nice obit in the LA Times. Gotta say he was the greatest bass/baritone of the last 25 years, at least. With all due respect to Terfel Dima did beat him in a prestigious competition in their youth. While Terfel is technically great Dima brought fire and passion. At 7 his piano teacher declared him devoid of talent. He attended an arty high school where he ‘majored’ in music, boxing, and football, not necessarily in that order. My kind of man.
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G_Gnome
Trad climber
Cali
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Dec 21, 2017 - 09:09am PT
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So my old copy of Mahler's 5th died and I need a new copy. CD, not vinyl. Any recommendations? Or do I just buy a new copy of Solti and the Chicago?
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Dec 21, 2017 - 10:28am PT
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Or do I just buy a new copy of Solti and the Chicago?
Can't imagine you'd be far off the mark with that decision.
I'm sure Kris has a well founded opinion. ;-)
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G_Gnome
Trad climber
Cali
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Dec 21, 2017 - 10:52am PT
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The first time I ever met Kris we were parked at the Boyscout trailhead in JT and were sleeping in the back of the truck. A little after we went to bed this 914 rolls in and parks next to us. Kris falls asleep with Mahler's 5th blaring on his stereo so we got to listen to it over and over all night. Needless to say I complained in the morning. But then we became climbing partners for many years so I must not have complained much.
And he is probably why I owned the Solti in the first place, even after listening to it all night.
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