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Music Lane It's all about the music, dude! Sit down, relax and listen to some tunes. |
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Music Lane It's all about the music, dude! Sit down, relax and listen to some tunes. |
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In Reply to: RE: Kubelik from the Dress Circle at Severance Hall posted by kitch29 on January 8, 2017 at 19:58:56:
With what was called the Bavarian Symphony Orchestra, in English. This would have been about 1974, when I was the classical music critic for the UC Santa Barbara Nexus (student newspaper). I believe the concert was a Wagner overture (Tannhauser, perhaps), a work by Hartmann, and Beethoven's 7th. I loved that he split the violins left and right. I was actually seated next to the conductor of the Santa Barbara Symphony, who assured me that was an "old-fashioned practice".
Kubelik did great service to romantic music, early and late, and also to the various Czech composers. I own 3 of his versions of Ma Vlast! (Just need the Mercury with Chicago).
It was no coincidence that the concert broadcast on Kubelik's return to Prague, which included Ma Vlast, opened with music from Smetana's Libuse - that opera is a kind of Czech national opera (and actually full of beautiful, somewhat Wagnerian, music).
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