What was your last concert?

[amateur51]

Maarja Nuut is a young woman from Northern Estonia whose vocals and amplified violin (and similar folkish instruments) render an ethereal and understatedly urgent captivating quality to Estonian folk music.

A splendid evening in a small basement venue, packed with around 50 people.

Many thanks for the steer MrGongGong

I was sceptical but listened with open ears & I agree with Beefo's illuminated comments

[Beef Oven!]

I was sceptical but listened with open ears & I agree with Beefo's illuminated comments

'ethereal and understatedly urgent', and before before lunch-time!

[gurnemanz]

My wife still works (laudable) and I like to search out lunchtime concerts from time to time. Yesterday, I travelled to Oxford on bus pass (up-market Stagecoach with wifi) for lunchtime Lieder Festival concert. Enjoyable performances of Warlock, Poulenc and Schubert by Korean counter-tenor, Kangmin Justin Kim, including a hair-raising Doppelgänger. I took in the Henry Moore v Francis Bacon show at the Ashmolean. Bacon won.

[teamsaint]

Last night (22nd)

Goshawk Project

Maarja Nuut

Manero's Bar, Kingsland Road, Haggerston, Hackney, London.

The Goshawk Project is a musical venture between Carole Pegg vocalist/fiddle player, and Radik Tülüsh (Huun-Huur-Tu), Tyvan master musician, underdertone- and overtone-singing.

An unusual combining of English and Tyvan folk music.

Maarja Nuut is a young woman from Northern Estonia whose vocals and amplified violin (and similar folkish instruments) render an ethereal and understatedly urgent, captivating quality to Estonian folk music.

A splendid evening in a small basement venue, packed with around 50 people.

Many thanks for the steer MrGongGong

https://www.facebook.com/TheGoshawkProject

Sounds like an excellent roots night out Mr Oven.

here is some Goshawk Project from youtube.

Checkout the instruments

.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPHf37eRw0w

[Beef Oven!]

Sounds like an excellent roots night out Mr Oven.

here is some Goshawk Project from youtube.

Checkout the instruments

.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPHf37eRw0w

Great link teamsaints - cheers! (they played that number at the gig).

Earlier today:

Free Lunchtime Concert @ Royal Festival Hall -

Berio, Folk Songs
Miles Davis, 1964 Concert
Riley's In C

Ensembles from Trinity Laban Conservatoire Of Music and Dance


Free Evening Concert @ Royal Festival Hall - Ornette Coleman Free Jazz Revisited Musicians ibid, directed by Chris Batchelor.


Not free (in fact quite expensive at £45 plus £1.75 booking fee) concert @ Royal Festival Hall

Sao Paulo Symphony Orchestra, Marin Alsop & Swingle singers:

Guarnieri - Symphony #4

Bernstein - Symphonic Dances From West Side Story

Berio - Sinfonia

Stonking concert, Marin Alsop is my new hero (heroine?)

[teamsaint]

I really fancied the RFH Sao Paolo concert, but circumstances were against it.

Was the Guarnieri good?

Decent turn out from the public? Tickets were a little on the steep side. When I had a look, the balcony appeared either to be sold out, or not open.

[Beef Oven!]

I really fancied the RFH Sao Paolo concert, but circumstances were against it.

Was the Guarnieri good?

Decent turn out from the public? Tickets were a little on the steep side. When I had a look, the balcony appeared either to be sold out, or not open.

The Guarnieri was really good. Marin Alsop introduced all works with a summary outline (including musical examples from the Sinfonia by the orchestra) and said that we'd detect a whiff of Copland, Harris, Bernstein and a few other American stalwarts (I detected Piston!).

It's a three movement piece with an intense lento framed by two energetic (and marked as such) outer movements full of forward momentum (my words, so don't ask what I mean!). I shall be seeking it out on CD at some point as it's a work I'd like to return to.

The balcony was not used, that's why it appeared unavailable on the theatre map. The stalls were 99.9% filled, but the lack of the need for the balcony shows you how conservative most people's taste is. We can't get them to move beyond their Elgar, Brahms, Mahler, Barbirollischetypenmusikefahrten etc(my German's crap!).

As you say, prices were steep, though not the steepest and if you booked your ticket over the 'phone, there was a healthy booking fee of £2.75!!!

[teamsaint]

I like the little Guarnieri I have heard, (mostly a couple of PCs) time to look out the sympnonies, , although I am trying not to take on too much new music at one time at the moment.
A shame that they couldn't have flogged the balcony seats at £5 a time to students or something.
Interesting that you say about conservative taste in audiences. The Brahms at the RFH a couple of weeks ago wasn't that well attended, although I suppose performances come up regular as clockwork.

Glad you had a great time. I don't suppose R3 recorded it?

[Beef Oven!]

I don't suppose R3 recorded it?

I wouldn't know, I listen to Classic FM these days

[teamsaint]

I wouldn't know, I listen to Classic FM these days

do you happen to know Ben Elton, or his work?

Edit: What if R3 DID record it? what would that leave you credibility wise?!

[Beef Oven!]

Edit: What if R3 DID record it? what would that leave you credibility wise?!

Well, I'd be embarrassed, because there's a particular ppppppppianissimo passage in the lento of the Guarnieri symphony where you could hear a cockroach fart, and I got a text message!!!

Not really, I switched my 'phone off

I always panic at gigs, wondering if there's an alarm set on my 'phone that will go off during the performance. It happened to me at a confrerence a while back, but luckily never at a concert.

[teamsaint]

Well, I'd be embarrassed, because there's a particular ppppppppianissimo passage in the lento of the Guarnieri symphony where you could hear a cockroach fart, and I got a text message!!!

Not really, I switched my 'phone off

I always panic at gigs, wondering if there's an alarm set on my 'phone that will go off during the performance. It happened to me at a confrerence a while back, but luckily never at a concert.

I take the battery out, because mine tuns on if you even look at it.

Alternatively, if it goes off particularly loudly, I just stand up, say (audibly) " Try to keep the patient alive till I get there", and leave with head held high......

[Beef Oven!]

I take the battery out, because mine tuns on if you even look at it.

Alternatively, if it goes off particularly loudly, I just stand up, say (audibly) " Try to keep the patient alive till I get there", and leave with head held high......

Lol! love the doctor ruse!!!

You can't take the battery out of iPhones

[Richard Barrett]

I just stand up, say (audibly) " Try to keep the patient alive till I get there"

[teamsaint]

Lol! love the doctor ruse!!!

You can't take the battery out of iPhones

oh dear.
I used to have a mobile (motorola I think) in which you could , in an emergency replace the battery with 2 X AA's !!!

They don't make em like that any more !!