Segerstam/Bruckner 8 - Barbican, 28.2.15

[Beef Oven!]

These puns are getting silly, I'm going to stop posting any more of them. I'm turning over a new leif.

[ahinton]

These puns are getting silly, I'm going to stop posting any more of them. I'm turning over a new leif.

Why not turn over a new Beef?

[Beef Oven!]

Why not turn over a new Beef?

I did in Sept 2013 (and added an exclamation mark!)

[ahinton]

Perhaps it's true that those who don't like Seger-
stam in Bruckner might prefer his Reger;
In Nielsen, Sibelius and Petter-
sson he is unquestionably better
Than most - but might the Leif of Brian beckon
With a new Gothic? well, folks, what d'you reckon?
I daresay that, while I've been versifying,
He's penned another symphony. How trying!
© Alexander the Unfinnish, 2015

[Alison]

Gone off this thread now

[ahinton]

Gone off this thread now

I doubt very much that you're alone in that...

[duncan]

Petroc T said Bychkov was originally scheduled to conduct this concert ...

Bychkov has had a hip replacement.

[Prommer]

Ah ha! Thanks.

[P. G. Tipps]

Bychkov has had a hip replacement.

Poor excuse ... he should have stuck with his old one a bit longer and spared us Segerstam.

[Lento]

Poor excuse ... he should have stuck with his old one a bit longer and spared us Segerstam.

[Prommer]

After his performance of the Bruckner, are we to take it that Segerstam has also been having HIP trouble?

[ahinton]

After his performance of the Bruckner, are we to take it that Segerstam has also been having HIP trouble?

Well, he did perform it with an unusually large orchestra...

[Prommer]

That's what happens when you get your HIP replaced. Your nice chamber orchestra of equals becomes a blooming great symphony orchestra needing a big ego crazed Brian Blessed lookalike to direct it aright.

Although Segerstam doesn't let conductors near his own music. There might be a whiff of irony about that...

[Lento]

Although Segerstam doesn't let conductors near his own music. There might be a whiff of irony about that...

Talking of which, I must get the box set sometime.

[ahinton]

Talking of which, I must get the box set sometime.

And maybe consider changing your forum ID?...(!)...