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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: Looking over SSV's 2014-15 schedule... posted by Jim Treanor on January 19, 2015 at 22:32:52:
Debussy Printemps and Handel Messiah one year. (Yes, I actually played harpsichord in the latter - LOL!) I was also in the orchestra when they served as the pit orchestra in a run of live stage performances of "Amadeus", where I got in a couple of brief excerpts from Mozart's piano concertos. Like most people, I had a falling out with Cleve (even though he'd done a couple of very nice things for me earlier on), and haven't spoken to him since the 80's. I know one thing he didn't like was that I used my position as program-note writer for the orchestra to shower invective on HIP Messiah performances even back then! It was as if Cleve did not want to offend the HIPsters, even though his own performances were not HIP at all. ;-)
The lack of a permanent conductor for SSV is intentional: it's one of a number of money-saving but artistically questionable decisions that were made when the orchestra was first established. AFAIK, they never have had a permanent conductor. And your suggestion that rehearsal time is limited is no doubt right on - I'm guessing that it's probably much more limited than it used to be with the SJ Symphony.
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- I was in a couple of those SJS concerts - Chris from Lafayette 08:25:48 01/20/15 (0)
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