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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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for the third time, played by our very respectable local symphony with full chorus, high-grade soloists, and none of that period performance BS but a perfectly paced, heavenly, full-throated roaring. Of all the symphonic works I have heard (all of Mahler, Brahms, and Beethoven, many Mozart, Schubert, Dvorak, Tchaikovsky, Pictures..., Scheherazade, Planets, Zarathustra, Saint-Saens Third, Carmina Burana, Requiems, operas, all the other blockbuster warhorses), this remains, for me, the most moving live piece of music (Aida runs a close second). Many in the audience were wiping away tears while cheering and applauding madly. There is no way to reproduce the impact of that chorus with even the best recording on the best audio equipment. This morning at breakfast I was still getting goosebumps and tearing up a little, just remembering it, hearing it only in my head the way LVB must have. That fugue...like angels, pure joy.Opening the concert was a Bernstein piece, "Serenade," with our superb concertmaster, Naha Greenholz, as soloist. I've written here previously about her. Every time I hear her play, my admiration grows. I'm afraid she won't stay in Madison very long, but is destined for much bigger things.
I didn't like the Ninth all that much until hearing it live for the first time 35 years ago. Now I believe it might be the best symphonic music ever written. At home I can listen to The Planets and Pictures at an Exhibition and think, "Yeah, that sounds really nice, almost as good as a concert." But you cannot really hear The Ninth until there are live performers in front of you. Then it is a glimpse of heaven shared by two thousand people, unlike any other concert experience.
Peace and Joy,
Tom E
berate is 8 and benign is 9
Edits: 05/11/15
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Topic - Saw "The Ninth" yesterday... - madisonears 21:22:41 05/11/15 (12)
- RE: Saw "The Ninth" yesterday... - merlinus 11:03:32 05/12/15 (1)
- RE: Saw "The Ninth" yesterday... - Todd Krieger 15:52:49 05/12/15 (0)
- Agreed As Well... - Todd Krieger 09:15:57 05/12/15 (8)
- There's a joke about a drunken Beethoven 9th- - oldmkvi 12:00:48 05/12/15 (7)
- RE: There's a joke about a drunken Beethoven 9th- - Todd Krieger 15:49:11 05/12/15 (1)
- Yeah, that's better than the version I found ( below )! nt - oldmkvi 16:16:06 05/12/15 (0)
- RE: There's a joke about a drunken Beethoven 9th- - Old SteveA 12:23:06 05/12/15 (4)
- That's the spirit! I'll try to piece it together. - oldmkvi 13:07:26 05/12/15 (3)
- This Raises a Perplexing Question..... - Todd Krieger 15:54:59 05/12/15 (1)
- Only the Ump knows! nt - oldmkvi 16:13:41 05/12/15 (0)
- OK Here it is! Link. nt - oldmkvi 13:23:12 05/12/15 (0)
- Agreed! - rlindsa 08:05:59 05/12/15 (0)
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