tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1248503935075362425.post1851191323388368130..comments2024-03-26T07:58:59.761+00:00Comments on I'll think of something later: Hunter's gift to GlasgowDavidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14506881804082382739noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1248503935075362425.post-28326551916442856572015-04-29T16:58:40.514+01:002015-04-29T16:58:40.514+01:00The shameful thing, Colin, is that I know now, but...The shameful thing, Colin, is that I know now, but it's taken me all that time. I never even saw the quads and cloisters on my many trips from Edinburgh to Glasgow as a student.<br /><br />Went on a Joseph Banks trail in centenary year, but failed to find his memorial (inside the Kew church on the green, apparently).<br /><br />Off now to talk to Jurowski about Jurowski (grandfather).Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14506881804082382739noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1248503935075362425.post-70748879838510170272015-04-29T16:21:07.995+01:002015-04-29T16:21:07.995+01:00Hello David
Thank you for this marvellous account...Hello David<br /><br />Thank you for this marvellous account of your visit to the Hunterian. I can’t remember when I first went, but I used to nip in as a schoolchild while my late father would be supping at the University’s staff club and I’d be wandering around the cloisters and the quadrangles. The quadrangles are glorious, with the Scottish baronial style walls surrounding them. The Hunterian is a great collection, as you know. The Aboriginal artefacts from Australia were brought back by Joseph Banks, and Hunter, ever the collector, bought a pile of them. <br /><br />Colin Dunnnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1248503935075362425.post-35517105510213244122015-03-29T22:56:45.122+01:002015-03-29T22:56:45.122+01:00'Scheherazade 2' - he does have good, live...'Scheherazade 2' - he does have good, lively, titles, doesn't he? Because the (first) Violin Concerto has the fiddler furiously narrating as if there were no time to lose. NB how Prokofiev several times puts 'narrante' in his piano concertos.<br /><br />No sign of a performance here yet. May well be on one of the orchestras' schedules for 2015-16, but I haven't looked them all over yet.Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14506881804082382739noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1248503935075362425.post-72901517700358148602015-03-29T15:45:55.721+01:002015-03-29T15:45:55.721+01:00David: Tremendous thrill to hear Adams's new w...David: Tremendous thrill to hear Adams's new work, Scheherazade.2. I called it a Violin Concerto, but it's really much more than that. Adams's subtitle for it is a "dramatic symphony for violin and orchestra." I hope you will get a chance to hear it soon. It's a co-commission among the NY Phil, the Concertgebouw, and the Sydney Symphony Orchestra. Leila Josefowicz, for whom he wrote it, was sensational, and Gilbert and the NY Phil gave it (and the whole program) an outstanding performance. The concert opened with a little gem by Lyadov, The Enchanted Lake, and the 1911 Petrushka. <br /><br />PS on Dausgaard: The Seattle Symphony has a new radio/internet radio channel, King 98.1FM, the kickoff of which is today with a marathon of the Dausgaard Sibelius cycle. I'm hopeful the cycle will become available on demand on the channel, too. So far, what I'm hearing is another, like Oramo, who peels away the layers of varnish and lets the luminous clarity come through.Susan Scheidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09250142489341777926noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1248503935075362425.post-2157235988779648132015-03-27T18:15:32.896+00:002015-03-27T18:15:32.896+00:00I definitely need you as my chronicler, Sue. I'...<br />I definitely need you as my chronicler, Sue. I'd misremembered that Prom as coming from Life Before TAD, but you're right, the review is there. Now you've jogged my memory, I think it was also Prom of the Year at the end of 2010.<br /><br />Anyway, we need more of these interconnected but diverse concerts with fascinating segues. Ligeti to Tchaikovsky was a new one on me.<br /><br />Look forward to report on the Adams. I hadn't realised there was a new violin concerto in the offing - must check details.Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14506881804082382739noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1248503935075362425.post-19703745868677048662015-03-27T14:58:39.897+00:002015-03-27T14:58:39.897+00:00David, sorry for the off-topic comment string here...David, sorry for the off-topic comment string here, but HAD to come back after reading your terrific TAD review on what was clearly a breathtaking Proms. Would have loved to hear that when it aired.Susan Scheidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09250142489341777926noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1248503935075362425.post-34590742554768149602015-03-27T14:05:09.664+00:002015-03-27T14:05:09.664+00:00Oops, and one might well throw me to the dogs for ...Oops, and one might well throw me to the dogs for that blooper! I'll look up that review on Dausgaard. Big concert week for me. Tonight is the new Adams Violin Concerto.Susan Scheidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09250142489341777926noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1248503935075362425.post-443454444846789392015-03-27T08:58:38.738+00:002015-03-27T08:58:38.738+00:00Yes, Sue, I wrote about Dausgaard's appointmen...Yes, Sue, I wrote about Dausgaard's appointment in a comment to Geo, who had also noted it: 'TD is a very imaginative programmer, gave us one of THE vintage proms - Ligeti linked to Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto, Langaard's Music of the Spheres (more of where that came from, please). And he has a radical approach to the classic symphonies, fresh if not always to my taste.'<br /><br />'That magnificent serpent instrument' is exactly that - a serpent. And this was a 19th century specimen - it crops up in Mendelssohn, Spontini and Bellini - though fundamentally it's an early-music staple: that's why I mentioned our friend Andrew, who is one of the world's - if not THE world's - leading exponents. Apparently not to be confused with the ophicleide, usee by Berlioz: that translates as 'keyed serpent' but doesn't resemble on in the way this one does. <br /><br />Ahem, Sun Dogs, not Sun Gods. Reminds me of a line in D J Enright's A Faust Book, in reference to a poodle which turns up in the doctor's study: 'The Lord God is the Drol Dog' (widdershins, of course).Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14506881804082382739noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1248503935075362425.post-1240991593192031092015-03-26T20:51:15.917+00:002015-03-26T20:51:15.917+00:00Well, it may not be the Vogelsaal, but you’ve show...Well, it may not be the Vogelsaal, but you’ve shown many wonders here. What is that magnificent serpent-instrument? The photo of the godson and daughter is charming, and “as fine and good young people as any I know, wanting to do good in the world” is my favorite phrase. Always so good to hear. Reading your TAD piece reminds me of the announcement that Thomas Dausgaard will be taking the helm at the BBCSSO next year. I can’t recall whether you’ve mentioned seeing him on the podium? He’s been at the Seattle Symphony as guest conductor doing what I believe is the only Sibelius cycle by any US orchestra as part of the Sibelius 150th celebration, and the excitement is palpable from the reports. I look forward to revisiting The Berserking, to which you’d introduced me, and I’ve listened to Sun-Gods several times since you noted it. What a tremendous piece of music that is!Susan Scheidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09250142489341777926noreply@blogger.com