Mittwoch aus Licht

[aeolium]

An alert for those interested in Graham Vick's production of Mittwoch aus Licht with his Birmingham Opera Company (starts today):

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-19291058

http://www.birminghamopera.org.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=76%3Amittwoch-aus-lichtwednesday-from-light

Parts of this are being streamed live today at 7 pm on The Space.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

[MrGongGong]

Parts of this are being streamed live today at 7 pm on The Space.

Not working for me though ?

[Bryn]

Not working for me though ?

What's 'playing' at the moment seems to be close, but not quite on, 7 beats to a bar.

Ah, the video's started, and now the 'Republican Party Convention'.

And folk here thought Radio 3 presenters were naff!

[MrGongGong]

What's 'playing' at the moment seems to be close, but not quite on, 7 beats to a bar.

Ah, the video's started, and now the 'Republican Party Convention'.

And folk here thought Radio 3 presenters were naff!

Indeed
not sure at all

is it intended to be a naff TV show ?
though the wind band face piece is in the same area IMV

[Bryn]

Ah well, they cut the sound before the video, following the post-performance interviews. I missed the bit about other aspects of the production being on some opera site. Anyone catch that. I will have to check it out later.

[MrGongGong]

NO

I think they cut it all
the whole thing is supposed to be streamed tomorrow
so maybe watch again then ..................

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Ah well, they cut the sound before the video, following the post-performance interviews. I missed the bit about other aspects of the production being on some opera site. Anyone catch that. I will have to check it out later.

http://www.birminghamopera.org.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=120:mittwochwednesday-whole-opera-to-be-streamed-live&catid=24:latest-news&Itemid=31&Itemid=0

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

And folk here thought Radio 3 presenters were naff!

Yes, he was rather excitable, wasn't he? (Made Clemency Burton-Hill sound like John Snagge!)

But: it was a good performance.
And: they broadcast it, not the Beeb!

[MrGongGong]

Good to see/hear it being broadcast
but one question is
why is Wednesday's opera happening on Thursday ?
If the day of the week is so significant that there's an opera for each day then surely Wednesday's opera should happen on Wednesday ?
is there a simple answer to this ? and i'm hoping it's not something "practical" Stockhausen wasn't noted for his practicality and the struggle would be part of the point , wouldn't it ?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Good to see/hear it being broadcast
but one question is
why is Wednesday's opera happening on Thursday ?
If the day of the week is so significant that there's an opera for each day then surely Wednesday's opera should happen on Wednesday ?
is there a simple answer to this ? and i'm hoping it's not something "practical" Stockhausen wasn't noted for his practicality and the struggle would be part of the point , wouldn't it ?

I think it's just something that somebody thought up when all the tickets sold out so quickly and they had large numbers of people wanting to see the production. This was the earliest/only performance they could get everything in place for. A pity, Wednesday for Mittwoch on 22nd August (which would have been the composer's 84th birthday) would have been lovely.

[MrGongGong]

I think it's just something that somebody thought up when all the tickets sold out so quickly and they had large numbers of people wanting to see the production. This was the earliest/only performance they could get everything in place for. A pity, Wednesday for Mittwoch on 22nd August (which would have been the composer's 84th birthday) would have been lovely.

I hope that's not the case
will dig about a bit tomorrow

[Serial_Apologist]

I heard one of the helicopter string quartet players on Radio 4 saying yesterday that she hoped residents in the vicinity of the performance wouldn't be phoning the police in alarm!

[Tapiola]

I am most disappointed that I will be unable to make this premiere, for financial reasons. I attended performances of the Mittwoch Greeting (world premiere) and "Abschied" in 2004 with KS in attendance. Hearing the Abschied at that time remains one of the most moving experiences of my musical life.

[heliocentric]

I was there. (And for the little festival/symposium held at Birmingham Uni and Conservatoire from Sunday to Tuesday.) It was a huge, beautiful, contradictory, moving, chaotic thing, absolutely impossible to pin down to a single overriding impression except that all the performers, from the Stockhausen regulars to the Birmingham Opera Company amateurs, and even including the MC for the helicopter episode (though personally I would have preferred it to have been done very differently!), gave it everything they had. Experiences like this don't come along very often.