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Is The Sky Falling?
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I was just re-reading Alex Ross' excellent book The Rest Is Noise and came across the following sentence: "... how can an older art form, such as classical music or ballet, still draw an audience in…Continue
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Tim Bosworth replied to Ralph Heims's discussion Is The Sky Falling?
"He was from Trenton, I think. He would be a good subject for a movie. You could call it Anteill. There will be something on him in my book. Now his stuff sounds pretty tame. Toward the end of his life he actually wrote some pretty good stuff. "
Sharon Torello replied to Ralph Heims's discussion Is The Sky Falling?
"George Antheil. When I spotted read his Wikipedia entry a while back I thought it was a screen play. Someone really needs to do a movie about this character! For those not familiar, take a look at his Wikipedia page."
Tim Bosworth replied to Ralph Heims's discussion Is The Sky Falling?
"This sort of stuff is nothing new. I just finished listening to a recording of George Antheil's Ballet Mecanique debuted in Paris in the early 1920s and later in New York. I'v read descriptions of the antics that went on during those…"
Tim Bosworth replied to Ralph Heims's discussion Is The Sky Falling?
"Many people operate from a "functionalist" view of life that holds that if something is changing from what they were useful, it's dying. Classical music is changing, evolving, not dying. There are people who can't accept that."
Gary King replied to Ralph Heims's discussion Is The Sky Falling?
"In an article in the Inquierer (DPS), David Patrick Stearns discusses contemporary classical music performers, who can project what he calls “Rock Star Glitz”. The poster child for such performers is the pianist and Curtis…"
Sharon Torello replied to Ralph Heims's discussion Is The Sky Falling?
"More ugly details arise today about the bankruptcy proceedings with the Philadelphia Orchestra in Peter Dobrin's article: Legal move threaten Orchestra's endowment. This is such a sorry state of affairs and the sickening thing is…"
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Is The Sky Falling?
I was just re-reading Alex Ross' excellent book The Rest Is Noise and came across the following sentence: "... how can an older art form, such as classical music or ballet, still draw an audience in the age of pop music, the cinema, and the gramophone?" My mind immediately went to recent articles we have all probably read with titles like "The Graying of the Classical Music Audience", "The Imminent Death of Classical Music", and "Classical Music --- What's That?" I thought, "Is classical…See More
Rhea Richardson commented on Ralph Heims's blog post Die Walküre Review
"Thank you Ralph for this insightful and amusing review. I will be at the encore and hope some other PFCMs will make it, too."
Gary King commented on Ralph Heims's blog post Die Walküre Review
"Wonderfully informative review! Thanks Ralph. One small correction: the encore presentation of Die Walküre begins at 6:30 PM, not 5:30, on June 1."
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Die Walküre Review
On Saturday, I saw the HD presentation of Wagner's Die Walküre, which was delayed in starting for more than 30 minutes. During the first intermission, we found out that the cause for the delay was The Machine, as everyone at the Met calls the monster device developed by the new Ring Cycle’s director, Robert Lepage. There was some problem with “the encoders” and the technicians were unable to get the computer to interface with the equipment. After an entire season, they are still fighting…See More
Ralph Heims replied to Sharon Torello's discussion Who was the thief: Bach or Tartini?
"The Brandenburg Concerti dedication manuscript is dated March 24, 1721, during Bach's Köthen period (1717 - 1723). Tartini gives 1713 as the time of his dream, in which he heard the devil play a sonata on the violin more beautiful…"
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"Thanks for the invitation to become your friend, Sharon. The pleasure is mine!
Ralph"
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Die Walküre Review
On Saturday, I saw the HD presentation of Wagner's Die Walküre, which was delayed in starting for more than 30 minutes. During the first intermission, we found out that the cause for the delay was The Machine, as everyone at the Met calls the monster device developed by the new Ring Cycle’s director, Robert Lepage. There was some problem with “the encoders” and the technicians were unable to get the computer to interface with the equipment. After an entire season, they are…
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