tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post3449792578140874310..comments2024-03-15T20:32:39.815+00:00Comments on On An Overgrown Path: Found - thousands of happy new earsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-83714316798932364072008-01-15T09:55:00.000+00:002008-01-15T09:55:00.000+00:00Or was it plagiarism in Liverpool?I wouldn't perso...Or was it plagiarism in Liverpool?<BR/><BR/><I>I wouldn't personally blame Ringo, but someone responsible for the staging of Liverpool - The Musical was clearly taken by Robert Wilson's designs for his and Philip Glass's opera Einstein on the Beach, whose Spaceship sequence bears a disturbing similarity to your photo of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra in those Celebrity Squares-style boxes. <BR/><BR/>John Gill <BR/>Ronda, Spain</I><BR/><BR/>http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,,2240806,00.htmlPliablehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10616598845886342325noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-61985268087323931362008-01-14T17:03:00.000+00:002008-01-14T17:03:00.000+00:00Garth, thanks for that. And it's not just the broa...Garth, thanks for that. And it's not just the broadcasters who are getting it wrong.<BR/><BR/>From today's Guardian -<BR/><BR/><I>Toscanini's comment about the vibrations of high notes beating on a tenor's brain causing stupidity was not made about Pavarotti, contrary to the assertion in Say what?, Arts diary, page 27, G2, January 9. Toscanini gave his last concert in April 1954 when Pavarotti was 18, and he died in 1957. Pavarotti gave his first concert in 1961.</I><BR/><BR/>http://www.guardian.co.uk/corrections/story/0,,2240278,00.htmlPliablehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10616598845886342325noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-84267174460294841202008-01-14T16:50:00.000+00:002008-01-14T16:50:00.000+00:00"These are people who have been driven away from c..."These are people who have been driven away from classical music by BBC TV's Classical Star and Classic FM's music for dinner parties.... They don't want to be talked down to by chummy radio presenters."<BR/><BR/>Pliable, over here the chummy (public) radio presenter at WETA-FM, in Washington, D.C., two times this morning referred to <B>C.E.P</B> Bach before announcing that the special evening programming would feature a pre-packaged and delayed broadcast from the Library of Congress consisting of music of Beethoven "and some contemporary Finnish music". I had to check my notes to see that they were referring to living Finnish composer Aulis Sallinen.<BR/><BR/>I assume that the presenters at WETA-FM are required -- by their job contracts -- never to themselves mention the names of living classical composers on the air.<BR/><BR/>*<BR/><BR/>[The three leading Bachs get about ten spins today on WETA-FM; and then there is also the CPE Bach Orcehstra performing Frederick the Great's Symphony in D Major.]Garth Trinklhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11084463787729969177noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-6163296654881433022008-01-14T16:25:00.000+00:002008-01-14T16:25:00.000+00:00Right on cue a nice example in today's Guardian of...Right on cue a nice example in today's Guardian of how not to do it -<BR/><BR/><I>Liverpool's biggest band - the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic - was not at home because it was here in the arena, stacked in horizontal ranks, now red, now blue. They played a chunk from Stravinsky's Rite of Spring and a little piece by Shostakovich. But most of the night they were the ultimate backing group, joining almost every band on every number, with their dynamic young conductor, Vasily Petrenko, riding high on a scissor lift and joining lustily in the Lennon singalong.<BR/><BR/>The RLPO was in the thick of it at the start, a melange of Rule Britannia, Amazing Grace (with images of slave ships), Jerusalem and Land of Hope and Glory, with mezzo Kathryn Rudge got up as Britannia to belt out the ruling the waves bit before being joined by two more singers, the Liverpool Welsh Choir, a brass band and semaphoring sea cadets. It was a wonderfully surreal moment. Very Liverpool.</I><BR/><BR/>http://arts.guardian.co.uk/art/news/story/0,,2240333,00.htmlPliablehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10616598845886342325noreply@blogger.com