tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post114060561361435328..comments2024-03-26T15:57:13.443+00:00Comments on On An Overgrown Path: Mozart MP3 download fatigue curedUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-1140694304006454892006-02-23T11:31:00.000+00:002006-02-23T11:31:00.000+00:00Dick, many thanks for those valuable thoughts and ...Dick, many thanks for those valuable thoughts and amendments.<BR/><BR/>I've corrected the two mistakes - sorry about that. My brain kind of gets fried by some of these articles. As I wrote to another online friend yesterday so far all the errors have been recoverable, but I am dreading the biggie!<BR/><BR/>I urge readers to check out <A HREF="http://witf.blogspot.com/" REL="nofollow"> Dick's blog</A>, it is worth a visit.Pliablehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10616598845886342325noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-1140693202207145272006-02-23T11:13:00.000+00:002006-02-23T11:13:00.000+00:00Hi, Pliable -- love your posts, as usual -- and th...Hi, Pliable -- love your posts, as usual -- and thanks for all the Kurtag! Just wanted to let you know the violist playing the Mozart (which is in E-flat Major,<BR/>not minor unless there's an intonation problem you're just being subtle about)with Patricia Kopatchinskaja is actually Odin Rathnam, not Tathnam (just a<BR/>couple of rare typoi): he's the concertmaster for the Harrisburg Symphony here and lives in the Central Pennsylvania area (loves fly fishing, too). <BR/><BR/>Thanks also for the posts on Shostakovich. I recently did an "up close & personal" post about two local performances of his 5th & 10th Symphonies (too<BR/>longwinded: if I had more time, I would've written less) and was finding it very difficult to separate what is viable from what is Volkov, stuff that has clearly<BR/>entered the Canon without being footnoted "Testimony: Suspect Factoid" (in the original sense of factoid as "something that seems true but I just made it up to<BR/>sound convincing"). <BR/><BR/>However, I also find myself making conjectures: it's difficult not to make "assumptions" about the quote of his setting of Pushkin's "What Is in My Name" at the opening and again in the 3rd mvmt of the 10th, especially given its last lines: <BR/><BR/><I>"But silently, in time of anguish<BR/>Pronounce it softly while grieving<BR/>Say that my memory won't vanish<BR/>That there's a heart in which I'm living." </I><BR/><BR/>To me, this makes the whole Sym #10 far more personal than just the fact he used<BR/>the D-S-C-H motive as a musical signature (not to mention Elmira in the 3rd<BR/>Mvmt)! <BR/><BR/>I've never seen anything in writing about HIS thoughts on the significance of this poem and even the number of program notes I've read about it never mention<BR/>more than the poem's title, but nothing about it's content. Are you aware of anything in various biographies or personal accounts or in Volkov's "Testimony,"<BR/>for that matter, that references the meaning of this poem for Shostakovich and his 10th (not to mention the other works he used "DSCH" in)?<BR/><BR/>Thanks for any help, if you can!<BR/><BR/>Take care,<BR/><BR/>Dick Strawser, <BR/>Music Director, Evening Host & Tracer of Lost Chords<BR/>WITF-FM 89.5, Your Classical Music & NPR News Station<BR/>1982 Locust Lane<BR/>Harrisburg PA 17109<BR/>dick_strawser@witf.org <BR/>Dr. Dick's Blog http://witf.blogspot.com/Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-1140625700512211422006-02-22T16:28:00.000+00:002006-02-22T16:28:00.000+00:00Dear Pliable,I am the husband of Pat. Thank you fo...Dear Pliable,<BR/><BR/>I am the husband of Pat. Thank you for your interest. Indeed we think that Kurtag is a most underrated composer. We like everything he wrote, especially for string quartet.<BR/><BR/>Pat spent hours playing the Kafka-Fragments for the composer and his wife. He reportedly said that, although he sometimes is afraid for her violin, she can do everything he ever wished or dreamt about violins...<BR/><BR/> Sincerely<BR/><BR/> Lukas FierzAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com