tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post2167045722731789962..comments2024-03-26T15:57:13.443+00:00Comments on On An Overgrown Path: Why distance lends enchantment to classical musicUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-53407791076124784822013-07-17T00:27:26.166+01:002013-07-17T00:27:26.166+01:00You're too kind - but thank you nevertheless. ...You're too kind - but thank you nevertheless. And what an extraordinary piece it is! Probably the best Lachenmann performance - and doubtless part of that was the communal experience of being in the RAH - I've heard.Mark Berryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17693194967620507933noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-41866363592711865602013-07-16T13:52:20.765+01:002013-07-16T13:52:20.765+01:00A glaring omission from my thoughts on this Prom i...A glaring omission from my thoughts on this Prom is any mention of Helmut <i>Lachenmann’s Tanzsuite mit Deutschlandlied</i> which the Arditti Quartet performed in the first half with Jonathan Nott and the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra. <br /><br />I have not touched on this bold and commendable piece of programming by the BBC simply because it did not fit in with the theme of what I wanted to be a fairly tight post. In any case, Mark Berry blogging at the Boulezian says it far better than I could - http://boulezian.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/prom-5-arditti-qtbamberg-sonott.html <br />Pliablehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10616598845886342325noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-50470357727792674882013-07-16T13:51:27.508+01:002013-07-16T13:51:27.508+01:00Lyle, you ask a very perceptive question and it is...Lyle, you ask a very perceptive question and it is one that I expected someone to raise at some point.<br /><br />At this point I will answer somewhat evasively that I am still - at the ripe old age of 63! - a seeker in these matters, and quote, again Nancy Wilson Ross - "Buddhist philosophers do not shrink from paradox and contradiction... on the contrary, not only do they seem to accept them easily, as a part of life's inexplicability, they even appear to delight in them". <br /><br />And yes, I will return to the audio/mixing side of classical music music. How right you are to say that the associated issues are "as complex and as vital to the effects of music as knowing how to play your instrument - and at least as challenging to master". Yet, I will wager,that among the hundreds (thousands?) of tweets about that Mahler Prom not one will touch on sound quality.<br />Pliablehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10616598845886342325noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-34374479842890374522013-07-16T13:29:50.605+01:002013-07-16T13:29:50.605+01:00Reading this post, and agreeing with it, got me to...Reading this post, and agreeing with it, got me to wondering about how your other posts about pumping up the bass, e.g. "Should classical music turn up the bass?", with which I also agree, fit with it. Throwing out this comment in hopes of getting you to write more about the audio/mixing side of classical music, a subset of your posts I find very helpful. I find audio/sound system issues to be as complex and as vital to the effects of music as knowing how to play your instrument - and at least as challenging to master.Lyle Sanford, RMThttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11312150272934828223noreply@blogger.com