Eötvös - H&N Sat 14 May

[french frank]

This thread did serve a useful purpose in that it alerted me to this programme, which I enjoyed greatly.

Then it served its purpose in spite of all! (I counted slightly fewer than half that were genuinely errant.)

[Quarky]

FF - I would like to thank you Alpensinfonie, Calum et al. for jollying along these messageboards. They are a great improvement on the R3 boards (but we could do with a few more members). Posters such as RobG are a perennial problem with boards, but your pesticidal compositions seem to be working quite well.

Incidentally:

1. The commentator, I mistakenly assumed was Harrison Birtwistle - sounded remarkably similar.

2. Eotvos is apparently into out of date technology. I wonder if he has any relation to Eotvos of the Eotvos Balance, which was a scientific instrument concerned with Einstein's theories of relativity?

3. There is a certain key combination which cancels all my typed composition- A nuisance to put it mildly.

[hackneyvi]

Tremendous! Another convert to the cause - you'll find your life becoming ever more enriched by the discoveries you are going to make.

I really didn't know this was less than 2 months ago. I'm surprised at how rapidly music has resumed a central position in my life after a long silence.

SA, what you said proved to be a prophesy. At the time, I can remember feeling that I'd gone everywhere I was going to get to; had taken THE step forward rather than, as I find, the first one. I thought I was approaching the music with my head, applying myself to it, not realising that it was also affecting me in other ways.

Since the Eotvos concert, I've been exposed to some modern jazz/free music - I've seen Craig Taborn play; I've seen the bass player John Edwards play twice this week, first with Axel Dorner and then with Steve Noble and Alexander Hawkins. Last night, though a programme of older music, I heard an extraordinary programme of Haydn, Tippett, Anthony Payne (his 1st; 1978) and Beethoven. I'm going to write it up somewhere because I was amazed by my own reactions and how the four pieces themselves formed a whole.

And the richness I am seeing, hearing and feeling has really changed and gladdened me. I didn't really believe this at the time.