ouch!! posted too soon. The clip is at the very bottom. I wanted to Add -- if a player stops playing to turn the page, is just assumed that player's part will not be played for those few measures?
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Frogman, That was some of the most moving music I've heard. That kind of social interest and motivation that existed then is dead and buried. If you want to understand the "antagonist", the people responsible for the social injustice, read "The Collected Short Stories of Eudora Welty". That woman understood southerners better than they understood themselves. Eudora Welty was born in Jackson, Mississippi in 1909, and died in 2001; she lived a long time, and she spent all that time observing and writing mostly about Southerners. Not until you truly understand what motivated Southerners, can you truly understand their actions. She could illustrate in her short stories, better than anyone else I've read, how people in Mississippi were raised from the cradle to the grave, in a fashion that motivated them to do the things they did. I really enjoyed the music. |
Stravinsky "Sacre": One of the very greatest 20th century works. Amazing piece of music! Huge orchestra. Yes, the music dictates that; that is how the composer scored it. As you say, eight horns; and, two of them double on Wagner tubas. Two of the trumpets double on bass (!) trumpet. This is a brilliant piece of orchestration genius and definitely not a case of "let's throw everything in there but the kitchen sink" resulting in many fantastic colors and textures. As an aside: this being a work written for a ballet and ballet orchestras having to be in a pit, there is a version of this work (done by Stravinsky himself) for reduced orchestra in order for the musicians to fit into the typically smaller space in a pit. Good question re the printing of the music. That is one of the jobs of a good editor and printer (publisher), to account for precisely what you describe. It is the bane of every player's existence when a publisher does NOT do that and the music is printed in such a way that you have to turn the page in the middle of a passage. They usually try and have the music at the end of a page end with a rest. What you saw from the violinists is standard protocol; the stand partner turns while the other player keeps playing. BTW, Van Sweden will be the NY Phil's next music director beginning 2017. |
This amounts to a Classical Jam session. I love the facial expressions and antics of the Soloist, The Principal, and the female cellist. Notice how the Soloist and the Principal communicate without words. She seems to be watching the Bow of the Soloist. Love it!!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzE-kVadtNw Thanks for the info on printing scores. ***** Stravinsky "Sacre": One of the very greatest 20th century works. Amazing piece of music! ***** A simple "nice clip" would have sufficed. Cheers |
"nice clip"/Stravinsky "Sacre" : "nice tune"/Ellington "Black, Brown and Beige" 😉 BTW, this was what I originally wrote and partially deleted before posting: ++++One of the very greatest 20th century works. Amazing piece of music! Up there with Classical works of.....well, let's go slow++++ O-10, glad you enjoyed that. I am looking forward to seeing Mavis Staples live this July. |