Imaginary conducting debut

[amateur51]

Oh dear. A conducting debut means that I would have to have given up being a real musician!!

No thanks, I don't want to lose my creativity and just wave my arms about and make myself look silly and very unpopular too!!

Better become a toilet cleaner, at least that job is usefull to society.

Did you catch the film about Previn & his opera 'The Kindness of Strangers' on BBC4 recently, Cellini?

He has some very interesting remarks to make about the role/art of conductor and creator/composer which I think you would enjoy

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00z8vc7/The_Kindness_of_Strangers/

Available til 18 March

[Mr Pee]

Concert 1:-

1. Elgar In the South
2. Ravel Ma Mere L'Oye Suite

Interval

3. Korngold Violin Concerto (With Maxim Vengerov)
4. Wagner Brunnhilde's Immolation Scene, from Gotterdammerung, (With Jessye Norman!)

Concert 2:-

1. Ibert Divertissement
2. Elgar Sospiri
3. Kodaly Dances of Galanta

Interval

4. Strauss Ein Heldenleben

[Cellini]

TV

Did you catch the film about Previn & his opera 'The Kindness of Strangers' on BBC4 recently, Cellini?

He has some very interesting remarks to make about the role/art of conductor and creator/composer which I think you would enjoy

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00z8vc7/The_Kindness_of_Strangers/

Available til 18 March

It's too long!! I like my info in pint size chunks, without all the boring stuff padding the programme out. I don't have TV partly for that reason.

[amateur51]

It's too long!! I like my info in pint size chunks, without all the boring stuff padding the programme out. I don't have TV partly for that reason.

I'll take that as a 'no' then Cellini

[Suffolkcoastal]

These would have to reflect my special interests in music:

Concert I

Roy Harris: Symphony No 7
Walter Piston: Violin Concerto No 1

Interval

Howard Hanson: Elegy for Serge Koussevitsky
David Diamond: Symphony No 3
(this would mean daringly ending with a quiet very beautiful slow movement)


Concert II

Britten: Suite on English Folktunes 'A Time there Was'
Moeran: Violin Concerto

Interval

Holst: Egdon Heath
Vaughan Williams: Symphony No 9

[offbeat]

mmm if only...........

Concert 1 (romantic)
Brahms Tragic Overture
Brahms Piano Concerto 2
Rachmaninov Symphony 3

Concert 2 (20 century)
Stravinsky Symphony in Three Movements
Sibelius Tapiola
Shostakovich Symphony 8

Probably need a good lie down after that ...............

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Everyone is taking this thread so seriously!! Think about it, you are all in cloud cuckoo land.

That's what makes it such fun.

[Alison]

That's what makes it such fun.

Yes !

[StephenO]

Programme 1
Strauss: Tod und Verklarung
Mahler: Symphony No. 2 in C minor (Resurrection)

That's exactly what I was going to say! Great minds...

So it'll have to be -

Concert 1

Ades: Living Toys
Mahler: Ruckert Lieder

Strauss: Eine Alpensinfonie

Concert 2

Rachmaninov: The Isle of the Dead
Sibelius: Violin Concerto

Tchaikovsky: Manfred Symphony.

[Alf-Prufrock]

Cardew: The Great Learing, Paragraph 1.

I suppose you are hoping that the gurning would only be on your part, eh ?

[Petrushka]

That's exactly what I was going to say! Great minds...

So it'll have to be -

Concert 1

Ades: Living Toys
Mahler: Ruckert Lieder

Strauss: Eine Alpensinfonie

Concert 2

Rachmaninov: The Isle of the Dead
Sibelius: Violin Concerto

Tchaikovsky: Manfred Symphony.

Great programmes, StephenO!

[Simon B]

It rather depends which top London orchestra as they have distinct characters. Since this is all cloud cuckoo land anyway, if I could be left to flap about meaninglessly in front of the LSO for one concert and the Philharmonia for another while they got on with playing the music between themselves (which they do anyway in reality sometimes!):

Concert 1, LSO
Shostakovich: Suite from Hypothetically Murdered
Prokofiev: Symphony No 6

Tchaikovsky: Symphony No 6

Concert 2, Philharmonia
Elgar: Cockaigne Overture
Arnold: Symphony No 5

Walton: Belshazzar's Feast

Having actually tried conducting orchestras in the distant past, the last thing I'd want them to do is actually take any notice - that would spell disaster for all concerned!

[Petrushka]

You do all realise, don't you, that should I be the lucky winner of this Friday's £90million Euromillions jackpot I will be making all these wishes a reality..........

[3rd Viennese School]

It will be a concert featuring all the Richards.

Richard Strauss An Alpine Symphony
Richard Barratt No

And after the interval…………

Richard that’s me. Symphony no.3.

Now there’s a problem with this. I don’t know the Richard Barratt well enough (I have it though)
I don’t much like Richard Strauss. Or the Alpine Symphony. And I’ve only heard it once.

And not only have I not written no.3 yet except some of the tunes I’m not sure how it would be orchestrated as I can’t do that either.


It will be a sell out.

3VS

[Eudaimonia]

I think the clue lies in the word 'Imaginary', Euda

Haha! Well, just for fun (and in the spirit of perversity), Simon B's comment sent me off to the London orchestra staff pages to see if there's anyone I'd actually be tempted to take up on a "casting couch" offer...a plethora of noes, "oh HELL noes" and a couple of maybes.

Besides, as a conductor I'm sure I'd make myself quite unpopular among the musicians by being so nitpicky...I can just imagine Cellini hunched over, grumbling to his stand mate and rolling his eyes at me. Of course, I'd take it personally and grind him mercilessly, forcing him to play the disputed passage in question over and over in front of everybody. By this time, the whole orchestra hates me--and the night of the performance, good old C plays it the way he wanted to all along.

Realistic enough for you?