There was a cougher, but he was a day-tripper on the rail who had a coughing fit and somehow could not stop. There was also a young lad in the arena who decided that, although the conductor was still conducting and the orchestra was still playing, the Stravinsky had ended about two hundred bars early, and started to applaud. He soon stopped!
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The best way for a non-French person to try and pronounce the French "u" is to purse the lips in a camp manner and try to say "eeeee", as in "tweet". The resulting pronunciation of Dusapin will be "Dooz a pun" but without the tongue touching the roof of the mouth on the final "n".Originally posted by Caliban View PostDon't like to be negative, but I gave M. Dusapin's piece a listen and I thought it was pretty dull to the point of being annoying and worthy of comment.
(Incidentally, is his name so difficult to pronounce? Martin Handley's "Dooze-pan" made me smile - unlike M. Doozepan's composition
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As in "Gis a job"
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Glad I wasn't the only one that found the Dusapin tedious (was actually wishing it would hurry up and finish). Seemed to be all about the surface texture of the music, with not much interesting going on structurally - either chords/harmonies or form.
Also thought the orchestra hadn't quite got the verve the Berlioz needed - but oh! Firebird made up for it. Spine tingling and loved the trumpets placed round the top of the hall (we were oop the gods and it was fantastic - a long way from the coughers too, but was that police siren really necessary?).
A review here which argues the complete opposite: https://www.theartsdesk.com/index.ph...cher&Itemid=27 - then again, reviewer doesn't like Firebird, a point of view I can't understand at all.
The Guardian's reviewer agrees more with me which, naturally, makes the reviewer better: https://www.guardian.co.uk/music/201...fischer-reviewLast edited by Guest; 28-07-11, 12:54.Comment
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Yes, as of a word in language studies, 'occurring on only one occasion' (rather than once = at some time in the past).Originally posted by Bryn View PostIt isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.Comment
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Surely it will be "Dooz a pan" (again with nasal swallowing of the "n")?Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View PostComment
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I love the description ...Originally posted by Claire_M View Post
... though I'm not sure that anyone would recognise the piece from that description!It's a work that crawls at such a self-admiring sort of pace, pausing only to lick its own silky fur like a pleased tabby, that I sit through it with little pleasure. [The Arts Desk]Comment
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I have to say that the reviewer is licking his own silky fur in admiration of the phrase he has just created!
It has nothing to do with the music.Comment
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I wondered at that too - not least as I actually have a silky-furred tabby, and the slurping noise he makes when licking his fur sounds nothing whatsoever like the Firebird! Find it very easy to imagine the narrative in the Stravinsky though.Originally posted by johnb View PostComment
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but the reviewer describes a bird moving like a cat which is crawling while slowly licking its fur?Originally posted by jayne lee wilson View Post
Is that even third rate writing? (Though I must own up to having made an incoherent likeness between Spotify and beans in the last week which I'm a little ashamed by.)Comment
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Not at all! Didn't want to sidetrack a thread about this Prom into a pointless debate about coughing...Originally posted by jayne lee wilson View Post"The sound is the handwriting of the conductor" - Bernard HaitinkComment
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Excellent firebird, I also listened to the berlioz and Faure but brewed up during the new work ;-)Comment
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