tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32354680.post9131476064574488835..comments2023-11-03T09:05:31.265-04:00Comments on Soho the Dog: In this corner...Matthewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10936327293692397100noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32354680.post-60422884283220487642008-04-09T19:57:00.000-04:002008-04-09T19:57:00.000-04:00Or maybe he just needed another French piece to fi...<I>Or maybe he just needed another French piece to fill out the concert</I><BR/><BR/>Hahaha. I heard Gustavo Dudamel conduct <I>Daphnis et Chloe</I> last weekend at Disney Hall and it reminded me, since I haven't heard it in a while, what a great piece Ravel wrote. That would be French enough, right? :-)<BR/><BR/>I too really like Berlioz' music, it's just <I>Harold in Italy</I> seems kind of....<I>slight</I> after the first half. Oh well.Henry Hollandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15871451112170286316noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32354680.post-64908159587419455622008-04-06T22:11:00.000-04:002008-04-06T22:11:00.000-04:00Yep, plus, it's not like staging Boheme, where the...Yep, plus, it's not like staging Boheme, where the pool of players who know the range-appropriate part approaches 100% of living singers. Not many singers know <I>Boccanegra</I> and even fewer know the 1857 version.Lisa Hirschhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14014924958428072675noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32354680.post-54202408021650988912008-04-06T22:05:00.000-04:002008-04-06T22:05:00.000-04:00I'd guess the revised version, too, given last yea...I'd guess the revised version, too, given last year's 4-act <I>Don Carlos</I>, but no indication. Maybe it's a canny way to build up suspense among the, oh, <I>couple of dozen</I> people obsessed enough to care.Matthewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10936327293692397100noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32354680.post-23261149383589646212008-04-06T14:19:00.000-04:002008-04-06T14:19:00.000-04:00If they don't say otherwise, I'd say it's a near c...If they don't say otherwise, I'd say it's a near certainty that <I>Boccanegra</I> is the 1881 revised version, not the 1857. It'd be darned interesting if they'd do the original, though. In the space that became the Council Chamber scene, there's a riot that sounds like something out of <I>Traviata</I>, I seem to recall, from having heard it a million years ago.Lisa Hirschhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14014924958428072675noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32354680.post-34686752171350262008-04-05T18:39:00.000-04:002008-04-05T18:39:00.000-04:00Levine's been on a big Berlioz kick for the past c...Levine's been on a big Berlioz kick for the past couple seasons—no complaints here. He may be deliberately putting Berlioz in a modernist context, as with that series of Schoenberg-beethoven concerts last year. Or maybe he just needed another French piece to fill out the concert.<BR/><BR/>I went to another front-loaded program a couple years ago: Ives, Carter, Foss, and then Gershwin's Concerto if F. Worked, too.Matthewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10936327293692397100noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32354680.post-90941245065801026872008-04-04T23:14:00.000-04:002008-04-04T23:14:00.000-04:00This one looks interesting:MESSIAENEt exspecto res...This one looks interesting:<BR/><BR/>MESSIAEN<BR/>Et exspecto resurrectionem mortuorum<BR/>BOULEZ<BR/>Notations I-IV<BR/>BERLIOZ<BR/>Harold in Italy, for viola and orchestra<BR/><BR/>If they indeed do the Berlioz last, I guess the strategy is "Trap 'em in the first half and reward them in the second". I don't get this kind of programming, actually, why not pair the Messiaen and the Boulez (where's Notation VII?) with something like Strauss or Ravel?<BR/><BR/>No Charles Wuorinen, hmmmmm....Henry Hollandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15871451112170286316noreply@blogger.com