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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: Mravinksky and the Pathetique posted by Ivan303 on March 4, 2017 at 20:59:01:
around during Tchaikovsky's time, that is. But Pierre Monteux was. Tchaikovsky gave four concerts in Paris during the period Monteux was a student at the Conservatoire there, and one was with Edouard Colonne, for whom Monteux would later be concertmaster and then assistant conductor. I don't know if Monteux attended any of those, maybe I'll research that some time. He did know and play for Brahms.
My point was, we listen to classical music very differently in the age of commercial recording and broadcasts, and now downloads and internet. All of that is pretty much post 1925. When my grandparents were growing up, if they wanted to listen to a symphony, someone in the family had to be able to play a reduction on the parlor piano. Only the wealthy few attended the symphony and opera every week.
Now, you can listen to Monteux conduct the Pathetique symphony repeatedly on a pocket-sized device while sitting in a boat in a lake in the woods, or on a tropical beach, or in an airplane at 40,000 feet. That's very different, in my opinion.
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