Hi Dave. Your stories about your mother and father need to be expanded. My mother was deaf in one ear and not especially musical but my father was and he and I went to many wonderful concerts. He had a huge vinyl LP collection I inherited after his death. He played cello in the Doctors Symphony. My uncle introduced me to opera and Bach, especially choral music. He owned a record store and a cigar store in Berkeley across from the university. “Campus Smoke Shop for your oral pleasure; Campus Records for your aural pleasure “. The influences on our music development are worthy stories so please tell us more. Thanks.
Can "The Gospel According to Sister Aimee," "Radio City: Symphonic Fantasy on Arturo Toscannini and the NBC Symphony Orchestra," and "Mount Rushmore" be far behind?
Thanks Dave. My parents took me to a Saturday Matinee performance of "It's A Bird, It's a Plane, It's Superman" and I remember being impressed with how quickly they accomplished the scene changes and wondered who was this guy named Max (Jack Cassidy) who was stealing the show. And WNEW radio played the hit song "You've Got Possibilities" as sung by Linda Lavin frequently.
I loved the Broadway story. Superman was one of Broadway's most notorious and expensive flops closing after 3 months despite decent reviews. It was a low point for composer Charles Strouse coming on the heels of the success of Bye Bye Birdie but he would redeem himself in a decade with Annie.
I attended the performance in Thailand with some animated graphics movie in abstract form which it was cool. Concertmaster almost become soloist for this piece himself especially the first movement. How ever this piece is not easy to understand as is this piece intend to be hard sell for anyone who begin to understand Classical music. But this still a entry piece for anyone to understand comtemporary classical music nowadays.
Great record! I had a similar concert experience when I went to see and hear Dramatis Personae, Brett Dean's trumpet concerto, with Håkan Hardenberger and the Concertgebouworkest and Andris Nelsons. A vast new work (which I didn't know) that opened the concert (it's actually about comic strip superheroes too) and eclipsed what followed, even if that was Scriabin's Prometheus with Aimard.
Hell, yeah! He’s got a handful of new works out there – you can hear pretty cool midi versions of some of those on his YouTube page. I’d also love to hear his new violin concerto inspired by Amelia Earhart. Hopefully a new Naxos disc pops up sometime.
Here's an idea for another segment for your channel: RIYL. Stands for Recommended If You Like.. For example if you like Sibelius, Madetoja, Kokkonen and Walton are recommended! It's a nifty abbreviation and could potentially be helpful in making some folks aware of some excellent lesser known composers.
Such a fun Symphony! I really enjoy Daugherty´s music, specially his Sinfonia Concertante "Once Upon a Castle" and the gorgeous Violin Concerto "Fallingwater"
Although I discovered Daugherty with UFO, which is fun but a bit awkward and not devoid of dead spots, my journey of discovery into Daugherty's music really began with the Naxos series a decade or more later (Route 66, Metropolis, Mount Rushmore etc.). Folks who enjoyed Metropolis should definitely check out the other Naxos releases. On a previous talk about significant contemporary composers who just might pass the test of time, I'd briefly mentioned Daugherty as another exemplar we could have added to your selection. But judging now from the very limited popular interest American composers are getting from American audiences, I wouldn't bet my savings on it. Streaming platforms' numbers are quite revelatory in that regard: Daugherty is 3K monthly streams, Rochberg 1K, Sessions a trivial 200+. European "equivalents" don't fare better. It seems that, American minimalists aside, not many will aggregate a sustainable audience in the long run. In a world where 60,000 new tracks are added on average every single day to streaming platforms, with the key to success and listenership being all about "breaking the algorithm", it's going to get rougher for great music making to break out. This doesn't deter me from pursuing my voyage of discovery, of course, but it makes me feel very remote at times. That is why I feel often compelled to comment on your channel, a thing I actually hardly ever do on other channels.
Anyway, thanks to your recent suggestions I've had a great time listening again to Ligeti (the Sony box, 1st 2 CDs – the string quartets and the choral extravaganzas), Metropolis, after Beethoven's 5th (Markevitch) and Scriabin's Poem of Ecstasy by the Singapore forces under Lan Shui. That was my concert program for last night, and it worked rather splendidly. Cheers!
Finally ! Some Daugherty!
Thank you! I needed something new to listen to today.
Hi Dave. Your stories about your mother and father need to be expanded. My mother was deaf in one ear and not especially musical but my father was and he and I went to many wonderful concerts. He had a huge vinyl LP collection I inherited after his death. He played cello in the Doctors Symphony. My uncle introduced me to opera and Bach, especially choral music. He owned a record store and a cigar store in Berkeley across from the university. “Campus Smoke Shop for your oral pleasure; Campus Records for your aural pleasure “. The influences on our music development are worthy stories so please tell us more. Thanks.
Metropolis is big fun. I collect occurrences of the "Dies Irae" and love his presentation of the tune as a rather twisted tango.
Can "The Gospel According to Sister Aimee," "Radio City: Symphonic Fantasy on Arturo Toscannini and the NBC Symphony Orchestra," and "Mount Rushmore" be far behind?
Thanks Dave. My parents took me to a Saturday Matinee performance of "It's A Bird, It's a Plane, It's Superman" and I remember being impressed with how quickly they accomplished the scene changes and wondered who was this guy named Max (Jack Cassidy) who was stealing the show. And WNEW radio played the hit song "You've Got Possibilities" as sung by Linda Lavin frequently.
I loved the Broadway story. Superman was one of Broadway's most notorious and expensive flops closing after 3 months despite decent reviews. It was a low point for composer Charles Strouse coming on the heels of the success of Bye Bye Birdie but he would redeem himself in a decade with Annie.
I attended the performance in Thailand with some animated graphics movie in abstract form which it was cool. Concertmaster almost become soloist for this piece himself especially the first movement. How ever this piece is not easy to understand as is this piece intend to be hard sell for anyone who begin to understand Classical music. But this still a entry piece for anyone to understand comtemporary classical music nowadays.
Great record! I had a similar concert experience when I went to see and hear Dramatis Personae, Brett Dean's trumpet concerto, with Håkan Hardenberger and the Concertgebouworkest and Andris Nelsons. A vast new work (which I didn't know) that opened the concert (it's actually about comic strip superheroes too) and eclipsed what followed, even if that was Scriabin's Prometheus with Aimard.
Hell, yeah! He’s got a handful of new works out there – you can hear pretty cool midi versions of some of those on his YouTube page. I’d also love to hear his new violin concerto inspired by Amelia Earhart. Hopefully a new Naxos disc pops up sometime.
Geez 'em crackers, contemporary music! Much appreciated! I love the first movement of this symphony, I just keeping listening to it over and over.
Here's an idea for another segment for your channel: RIYL. Stands for Recommended If You Like.. For example if you like Sibelius, Madetoja, Kokkonen and Walton are recommended! It's a nifty abbreviation and could potentially be helpful in making some folks aware of some excellent lesser known composers.
Somewhat reminded of Todd Levin's very entertaining one-off for Deutsche Grammophon in the 90s : "DeLuxe"
PS You have to know how to say MXYZPTLK forwards and backwards, for reasons.
Such a fun Symphony! I really enjoy Daugherty´s music, specially his Sinfonia Concertante "Once Upon a Castle" and the gorgeous Violin Concerto "Fallingwater"
Although I discovered Daugherty with UFO, which is fun but a bit awkward and not devoid of dead spots, my journey of discovery into Daugherty's music really began with the Naxos series a decade or more later (Route 66, Metropolis, Mount Rushmore etc.). Folks who enjoyed Metropolis should definitely check out the other Naxos releases. On a previous talk about significant contemporary composers who just might pass the test of time, I'd briefly mentioned Daugherty as another exemplar we could have added to your selection. But judging now from the very limited popular interest American composers are getting from American audiences, I wouldn't bet my savings on it. Streaming platforms' numbers are quite revelatory in that regard: Daugherty is 3K monthly streams, Rochberg 1K, Sessions a trivial 200+. European "equivalents" don't fare better. It seems that, American minimalists aside, not many will aggregate a sustainable audience in the long run. In a world where 60,000 new tracks are added on average every single day to streaming platforms, with the key to success and listenership being all about "breaking the algorithm", it's going to get rougher for great music making to break out. This doesn't deter me from pursuing my voyage of discovery, of course, but it makes me feel very remote at times. That is why I feel often compelled to comment on your channel, a thing I actually hardly ever do on other channels.
Anyway, thanks to your recent suggestions I've had a great time listening again to Ligeti (the Sony box, 1st 2 CDs – the string quartets and the choral extravaganzas), Metropolis, after Beethoven's 5th (Markevitch) and Scriabin's Poem of Ecstasy by the Singapore forces under Lan Shui. That was my concert program for last night, and it worked rather splendidly. Cheers!