Thanks for the previous post -- I hope to be able to comment on it once I have some time. I have been in trial mode for two weeks and have not listened to a thing. I am hoping to be done this weekend, especially considering I have friends visiting from Japan, but no promises. To that end, can we delay for two more weeks the next round? I have to get caught up.
Tuesday, September 17, 2013
Monday, September 9, 2013
Bruckner & High School English
OK this will probably sound a little pathetic. I feel like I'm in HS English again - reading too much into everything just to come up with some symbolism or something else to say in class for discussion credit ;)
I watched the PBS MTT Keeping Score on Eroica. Really good. As I've heard before, critical symphony that paves the way for the next 200 years. Asserts that based in the timing of the writing of the movements, much of the symphony is autobiographical with LvB coming to terms with the loss of his hearing - that the funeral march of the 2nd movement could have been for this tremendous loss. And that Eroica established the autobiographical symphony.
I "needed" to listen to Bruckner 9 tonight. Colored with this perspective - I listened to the 9th as a narrative. Recognizing that when Bruckner set out to write the symphony, he knew it would be his last. In the end, he never finished it. This knowledge has always led me to listen in a somber state of mind. But tonight I heard his internal struggle with death - the competing themes of anger, sorry, and faith. I have to say, the symphony turns into a bit of a nail biter when you try to figure out what emotion comes out on top. All I can say is that it is beautify and, for me, unexpected.
To my knowledge only Berlin-Rattle have recorded the version with the reconstructed 4th movement. It is magical.
I watched the PBS MTT Keeping Score on Eroica. Really good. As I've heard before, critical symphony that paves the way for the next 200 years. Asserts that based in the timing of the writing of the movements, much of the symphony is autobiographical with LvB coming to terms with the loss of his hearing - that the funeral march of the 2nd movement could have been for this tremendous loss. And that Eroica established the autobiographical symphony.
I "needed" to listen to Bruckner 9 tonight. Colored with this perspective - I listened to the 9th as a narrative. Recognizing that when Bruckner set out to write the symphony, he knew it would be his last. In the end, he never finished it. This knowledge has always led me to listen in a somber state of mind. But tonight I heard his internal struggle with death - the competing themes of anger, sorry, and faith. I have to say, the symphony turns into a bit of a nail biter when you try to figure out what emotion comes out on top. All I can say is that it is beautify and, for me, unexpected.
To my knowledge only Berlin-Rattle have recorded the version with the reconstructed 4th movement. It is magical.
Sunday, September 8, 2013
Happy Birthday!
Looking for something to do? Anton Dvorak was born Sept 8, 1841. Celebrate with a little of our listening list!
Saturday, September 7, 2013
Better late than never??
September 6-19: Dvorak, Mussorgsky
VGCM p305-318
ANTONIN DVORAK
ANTONIN DVORAK
Slavonic Dances
Symphonies
Chamber music
MODEST MUSORGSKYSymphonies
No. 9 in E minor (From the New World)
No. 8 in G major
No. 7 in D major
Cello Concerto in B minorNo. 8 in G major
No. 7 in D major
Chamber music
Piano Trio op. 90 (Dumky)
String Quartet in F major op. 96 (American)
String Quartet in F major op. 96 (American)
A Night on Bald Mountain
Pictures at an Exhibition (piano version and Ravel's orchestra¬tion)
Song cycles: Songs and Dances of Death and Sunless
Opera: Boris Godunov
Pictures at an Exhibition (piano version and Ravel's orchestra¬tion)
Song cycles: Songs and Dances of Death and Sunless
Opera: Boris Godunov
Friday, September 6, 2013
Interesting PBS series
Wednesday, September 4, 2013
More free music!
Be Part of the CSO’s Verdi Celebration
JOIN THE CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA IN A CELEBRATION OF GIUSEPPE VERDI’S 200TH BIRTHDAY.
Wherever you are in the world, you can watch online, at cso.org/verdi, our free live webcast of the Verdi Requiem:
Thursday, October 10, 2013, at 7:30 p.m. CDT U.S. (GMT -5)
Thursday, October 10, 2013, at 7:30 p.m. CDT U.S. (GMT -5)
Find details and local times worldwide for the CSO’s free webcast of the Verdi Requiem here. The live webcast will also be simulcast at Millennium Park, downtown Chicago.
Verdi 200th Birthday Spectacular
Verdi Requiem Mass
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Riccardo Muti, conductor
Tatiana Serjan, soprano
Daniela Barcellona, mezzo-soprano
Mario Zeffiri, tenor
Ildar Abdrazakov, bass
Chicago Symphony Chorus
Duain Wolfe, chorus director
Verdi Requiem Mass
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Riccardo Muti, conductor
Tatiana Serjan, soprano
Daniela Barcellona, mezzo-soprano
Mario Zeffiri, tenor
Ildar Abdrazakov, bass
Chicago Symphony Chorus
Duain Wolfe, chorus director
Giuseppe Verdi could distill an entire storm of raw emotion into only a few bars, a phrase, a moment. He portrayed people utterly consumed by their passions—jealousy, ambition, love, guilt, power and desire. His soaring melodies and intricate symphonic lines bristle with the fiery, crackling intensity of his characters.
“The greatest Verdi conductor of our time was on fire, and so were the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus.”
– Chicago Tribune
– Chicago Tribune
Music Director Riccardo Muti, continuing the great Italian operatic conducting tradition, leads the combined forces of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus in concerts celebrating Verdi’s 200th birthday. Experience the resilience of the human spirit in “Va, pensiero;” the blood-soaked ambition of Macbeth; and the deep pathos of the Requiem Mass as never before. Purchase your tickets today atcso.org or call 312-294-3000.
See Verdi, A Citizen Musician, for more.
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