tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post285003984949461070..comments2024-03-26T15:57:13.443+00:00Comments on On An Overgrown Path: Where is your pie?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-58334215542895422892009-03-16T18:13:00.000+00:002009-03-16T18:13:00.000+00:00Nice to see this post quoted on the Telegraph webs...Nice to see this post quoted on the <I>Telegraph</I> website -<BR/><BR/>http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/mick_fealty/blog/2009/03/16/brit_blog_round_up_its_enormous_edition_213Pliablehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10616598845886342325noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-66124565016997871072009-03-14T10:06:00.000+00:002009-03-14T10:06:00.000+00:00Gavin, thanks for that. The great thing about this...Gavin, thanks for that. The great thing about this blog is that we can exchange personal opinions.<BR/><BR/>Actually, I think that Mahler would have agreed with my comparison between his symphonies and Britten's <I>'Noye's Fludde'</I> if he was around today.<BR/><BR/>Mahler spent a lot of time searching for the musical expression of child-like innocence. Britten found it in <I>'Noye's Fludde'</I>.<BR/><BR/>Whatever, we should not forget how much Britten was influenced by Mahler - <BR/><BR/>http://www.overgrownpath.com/2006/10/mahler-beats-britten-with-finale.htmlPliablehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10616598845886342325noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-60020194572872493932009-03-14T08:55:00.000+00:002009-03-14T08:55:00.000+00:00Great posting and insightful as ever... but I have...Great posting and insightful as ever... but I have to disagree with the following "It can [...] produce more tears than any Mahler symphony at the Barbican". Of course it would depend on who was performing the Mahler (not Gergiev), but I can't believe Britten himself would agree with the comparison. A great work, but up there with Mahler (on this occasion)...? I wonder.Gavin Plumleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08367649538228383713noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-36254084895172929682009-03-14T02:06:00.000+00:002009-03-14T02:06:00.000+00:00It seems a waste of money, frankly, better spent o...It seems a waste of money, frankly, better spent on local hires,giving local musicians the gig would better everyone all around:the school, the community, the musicians and the economy. Why is FLASH so important? The least flashy conductor I know of , Abbado, is also, for me, the best.The Wound Dresserhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06329621123316492765noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-75841894451503114802009-03-13T20:50:00.000+00:002009-03-13T20:50:00.000+00:00G-sus, thanks for that very useful link and your c...G-sus, thanks for that very useful link and your comments.<BR/><BR/>They support the discomfort that I have over the Barbican's 'extended residency' project. I am a huge supporter of music outreach into schools and the community. But I am at a loss to understand what a flying visit by a musician from Amsterdam, New York, Leipzig or Los Angeles can do in an East London school that a local teacher cannot, other than add some expensive novelty value.<BR/><BR/>I am finding it difficult not to view these 'extended residencies' as a clever way to window-dress intercontinental tours by the big name orchestras. It also disturbs me that mentions of <I>access, outreach</I> and <I>schools</I> immediately elevates a project into the 'ethically sound' category, and puts it off limit for critical discussion.<BR/><BR/>Which is why I wrote the article. <BR/><BR/>http://www.overgrownpath.com/2007/06/how-green-was-my-concert.htmlPliablehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10616598845886342325noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-86309655069835710002009-03-13T20:17:00.000+00:002009-03-13T20:17:00.000+00:00Dear Pliable,Some time ago I found an article that...Dear Pliable,<BR/>Some time ago I found an article that made me think about international tours by orchestras:<BR/><BR/>http://classicstoday.com/features/1004-madness.asp<BR/><BR/>Living in Madrid, where some of the local orchestras are good but not outstanding, I can understand that concerts given here by top level bands such as the Vienna Phil, the Concertgebouw and the likes can appeal to the audience. But it is more difficult to understand that same situation in places where the local orchestras are already top level.<BR/><BR/>Some time ago, one of the local orchestras in Madrid toured in Germany and Austria for a couple of weeks. After the tour, there were brochures in their concert hall reporting the successful reviews they got from the local press in the cities they visited. And I wondered whether I needed someone from Germany or anywhere else to tell me how good (or bad) is an orchestra I see regularly and they have seen only once.<BR/><BR/>In May this year they are touring in the UK. We will see more of the same thing.G-#https://www.blogger.com/profile/14646394393959811242noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-507958781458620572009-03-13T13:16:00.000+00:002009-03-13T13:16:00.000+00:00If you are thinking of going to the second perform...If you are thinking of going to the second performance of <I>Noye's Fludde</I> in Wymondham Abbey, which takes place tomorrow Saturday March 14, I am afraid it is completely sold out.<BR/><BR/>It appears nobody has told the residents of south Norfolk that classical music is dead.Pliablehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10616598845886342325noreply@blogger.com