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Post by Ren on Mar 10, 2013 12:22:45 GMT -5
By all accounts, it sounds like the audience thought it was the greatest, so: applause! Congratulations!
The Star review was grumpy, but it is hard to take writers seriously when they a) get easily Google-able information wrong and b) say that the audience basically died from joy, but they themselves didn't like it (and therefore give a negative review). Especially when they seem to dismiss the audience's pleasure due to age? Grumpypants.
Does anyone know if the TSO is planning a recording at all?
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Post by Owen from Final Fantasy on Mar 11, 2013 9:59:41 GMT -5
A non-distributable "archival" recording was made, but there are plans for more performances.
Thanks again to everybody for coming. I cannot begin to express what a wonderful experience it was to work with the TSO and Pekka. I can't even. I was depressed for two days afterward, it was such a high. Thank you.
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Post by Alyssa! on Mar 11, 2013 21:53:59 GMT -5
"misrepresented as a Fugue" is one of the stuffiest, sniffliest jabs of criticism I've ever heard (sorry to quote). As a budding theorist, I do hope that words and pictures can SOMEHOW exist service of music and its contexts. I'm hoping to have pieces out on this and "Secret Seven" in the near future.
The denim tunic and veggie bandana was the fanciest I've been in months, and the new music crowd was fun to chat with. I ran into Thom, Patrick, and (the one and only) Manny Diamant (he's rather tall and very sweet). And of course, the concerto. Cheers to a triumph.
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Post by Nicole No. 5 on Mar 13, 2013 23:08:52 GMT -5
wish I didn't live on the other side of the country so I could've made it to the TSO show! also, on a random yet vaguely relevant note... finding out about Welcome to Kelowna made me a little giddy, as I was born and raised there (fairly confident in saying I'm the biggest Owen fan from Kelowna as well, haha).
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Post by Owen from Final Fantasy on Mar 14, 2013 16:15:34 GMT -5
It's not unfair that the writer would not hear on first listen that the Fugue was in fact a fugue. My father, a fan of fugues, didn't hear the fugue either-- and he had multiple listens and a score-- until I pointed out that the soloist played the countermelody, not the subject. The subject and its inversions and transpositions are found in the orchestral part and they are spun out of nothingness rather than Stated With A Confident Exposition.
But yeah, the language in these reviews was classist, and I would be annoyed except that New Music Criticism has a long-standing tradition of being extremely classist so I'm used to it and wouldn't expect any less. We all got spoiled by Alex Ross! Just because he left his class issues behind doesn't mean the entire new music community has done the same.
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Post by Alpentine on Mar 17, 2013 1:01:44 GMT -5
The denim tunic and veggie bandana was the fanciest I've been in months, and the new music crowd was fun to chat with. I ran into Thom, Patrick, and (the one and only) Manny Diamant (he's rather tall and very sweet). And of course, the concerto. Cheers to a triumph. I talked to Patrick and Manny too. We should talk next time. |
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