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The Tam Tam falling on the head on the audience member in the stalls at this gig was rather memorableOriginally posted by Eine Alpensinfonie View PostEr… let's stick to concerts we've been to.
Sibelius Kullervo; Lindberg Kraft Philharmonia;Polytech Choir/Esa-Pekka Salonen with Monica Groop, Jorma Hynninen & Toimii. RFH London, 2 December 2001 (PGW)
Cracking piece as well, even without the drama in the stalls.(from this review http://www.musicweb-international.co...ted_Rocks2.htm) A couple of minutes in, that Tam Tam (which must have presented a serious health hazard to the hearing of the expensively seated listeners immediately in front of it) collapsed and toppled forward onto two of them. Efforts were made to put it up on its frame again (clearly a first priority - the performance continued with Salonen impervious to its absence from the cacophony he was unleashing) and one victim was taken out with a bleeding head, to be followed after a few minutes by two people with a large red medical aid bag. The other victim, who had been only bruised, stuck it out, but kept a very wary eye upon the offending instrument throughout the performance.Comment
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No. I'm having a conversation. Please don't treat us like children.Originally posted by Eine Alpensinfonie View PostEr… let's stick to concerts we've been to.Comment
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Originally posted by MrGongGong View Post
I was at a Santana gig in London in the late 1970s/early 1980s and the percussionist (can't remember his name, corpulent Afro-American bloke) fell off the stage!
He was fine - obviously if he'd hurt himself, it wouldn't have been funny.Comment
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You prompted me to look up the past players page on the Santana website, Beef - at Slane (see my first post) there were 5 percussionistsOriginally posted by Beef Oven! View Post
I was at a Santana gig in London in the late 1970s/early 1980s and the percussionist (can't remember his name, corpulent Afro-American bloke) fell off the stage!
He was fine - obviously if he'd hurt himself, it wouldn't have been funny.
on stage (plus Carlos on guitar, bass, keyboards and 2 alternating vocalists, who I think were Greg Walker and Greg Rolie). They played for about 2½ hours while we sat there in the sunshine, superb stuff. Mr Dylan played for even longer. Quite a day.
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I think the gig I was at was in the RAH. And there were quite a few percussionists on stage!Originally posted by Richard Tarleton View PostYou prompted me to look up the past players page on the Santana website, Beef - at Slane (see my first post) there were 5 percussionists on stage (plus Carlos on guitar, bass, keyboards and 2 alternating vocalists, who I think were Greg Walker and Greg Rolie). They played for about 2½ hours while we sat there in the sunshine, superb stuff. Mr Dylan played for even longer. Quite a day.
And, 2.5 hours IIRC.
Great band. I remember travelling all around Yugoslavia in 1979 and the only music I had with me was a cassette of 'Marathon'. Can't for the life of me remember what device I played it back on.Comment
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Very difficult to single out one, so I won't try!!
29 September 1968
Hallé Orchestra
Free Trade Hall, Manchester
Mendelssohn: Overture to Ein Sommernachtstraum
Handel (arr. Harty): Music for the Royal Fireworks
Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé (Suite No. 2)
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4
Barbirolli/Halle. The Tchaikovsky was 'overwhelming' as my diary entry reminds me; I do recall being bathed in perspiration by the end such was the drama of it all! The Ravel was wonderful, too.
An earlier post mentions Albert Rosen. I only saw him once, deputising for an indisposed Horenstein at the Civic Hall Wolverhampton with the BBCNO in Walton's 1st. Any disappointment in the non-appearance of JH was blown away by a stunning performance of the Walton.
Finally Elgar's 1st at St Nicholas's Chapel Kings Lynn 24th July 1970; JB/Halle and the BBC Legends performance reminds us just how thrilling that was. It cannot, however, quite capture the sound of the full orchestra in what is a relatively small space; mind blowing!!
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The OP speaks of "something extra special, a life-changing event. one that will give you goosebumps just recollecting the memory for the rest of your days"... the events which immediately spring to my mind in this connection would all be performances I've been involved in myself, for what I would imagine are obvious reasons, but, leaving those aside, these occurred to me immediately (PS I didn't remember the dates, I looked them up where possible!):
Michael Finnissy alongside, St John's Smith Square, 19 February 1980
Xenakis 60th birthday concert conducted by Guy Protheroe, St Bartholomew's Smithfield, 25 June 1982
Anthony Braxton Quartet, Huddersfield Festival November 1985
Luigi Nono No hay caminos..., Donaueschinger Musiktage 22 October 1989
David Tudor solo, STEIM, Amsterdam, summer 1994
Stockhausen, many things but if I have to mention one it would probably be Sonntag aus Licht, Cologne, 1 May 2011
... no "classical music" there, which surprises me, maybe I should go back to thinking and I might find a few more...Comment
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I had tickets for that very concert, but, having failed to achieve the A-level grades I needed, I had unexpectedly returned to boarding school by then.Originally posted by Nimrod View PostComment
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Can we please stick to concerts that we've attended?Originally posted by Eine Alpensinfonie View Post
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Oh Yess! I wasn't at that one but got a late front row organ gallery seat for their Mahler 4 the same week. This was the first time that the WPO had come to Edinburgh since the Bruno Walter post-war reconciliation days (1948?), and that was the ethos of the EIF, lest we forget.Originally posted by mangerton View Post
For my part, sitting behind the Vienna horns, still led at that time by Roland Berger, was simply wonderful and took me several days to return to my second-year BMus drudgery.Comment
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Another unforgettable concert was the VPO/Mehta concert at The Sage. They performed a concert they were to repeat at the Proms on the following day (Haydn/Berg/Stravinsky), but the better acoustics at The Sage made this the better concert.Comment
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Oh Dear Eine Alpensinfonie, what a great shame; it was only the second concert I had attended at the FTH with JB/Halle, the previous one being Bruckner's 8th, preceded by Elgar's Grania and Diarmid funeral march, another wonderful concert. I lived in the Birmingham area at the time so it was a jaunt after work to get to Manchester for 730 pm (as it used to be known!!).Comment
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