Originally posted by Caliban
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Music that excites audiences and bores players
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Ariosto
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Originally posted by Ariosto View PostI once changed the title in the Planets from "Venus, bringer of love" to ... well, I'd better not say. It was enough to make the front desk nearly collapse in the concert, and Boult wondered what the hell was going on.
Your final clause turns a good story into a great one (and a magnificent name-drop into the bargain)"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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VodkaDilc
There must be plenty of examples of music which excites the players but bores the audience. For example, virtually the whole Piano Duet repertoire!!
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I would imagine the trumpet and timpani parts in many Mozart and Haydn symhonies are very boring. I mean you're only playing two or three different notes throughout, aren't you?
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Originally posted by cavatina View PostTo be fair, a lot of orchestral writing for the viola isn't very interesting-- but then, it's not meant to be.
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Originally posted by VodkaDilc View PostThere must be plenty of examples of music which excites the players but bores the audience. For example, virtually the whole Piano Duet repertoire!!
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I suppose different things excite different audiences, and different things bore different players/singers. From my perspective as first alto in the choir for many years:
I have never been bored singing Bach, Mozart, Haydn, Mahler or Britten. I would add Handel, except that I did eventually get bored with Messiah - though I came back to it, and do consider it great music.
I have frequently been bored singing Elgar, Mendelssohn, Finzi and Vaughan Williams. There are certain exceptions in each case.
I have always been bored singing popular opera choruses and Rutter. I also found Stravinsky's Symphony of Psalms boring to sing, which rather surprised me.
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