Originally posted by Eine Alpensinfonie
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Peckham's all right as long as you don't first lock your bike to something before turning round to remove your cycle clips. (It was a long walk home, that day).
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Can anybody explain the point of this exercise?Comment
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Multi-level marketing?Originally posted by StatMallard View Post
I keep hitting the Escape key, but I'm still here!Comment
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The point of having an 'urban' orchestra performing Steve Reich to a different kind of audience - younger and perhaps less inclined to go to what they would see as a 'formal' concert - sharing a new experience among people like themselves. They sounded very enthusiastic - and attentive. They'll be tuning in to Hear & Now next!Originally posted by StatMallard 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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As I have / did not listen to the concert itself, I can’t agree or disagree with the review but the short video is interesting. This seems a very good way of offering a chance to hear music to those who think going to a place like the RAH is not their thing but are curious or even vaguely interested in ‘that sort of’ music. I almost think this could work better for young children (or more to the point their parents) than the Cbeebies Prom at the RAH.
[ed.] if this video is anything to go by, the concert seems to have no gimmick or pretence. Just music as it is, and well played.Last edited by doversoul1; 05-09-16, 20:07.Comment
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I was tempted to go, but in the end decided it was too far to travel for less than an hour of Reich. Also, I did not see it having a chance of competing with my vivid memory of the 1972 Hayward Gallery performance of his Drumming, surrounded by Rothkos.Comment
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Oh, good - I'll pop the kettle on.Originally posted by french frank View Post[FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]Comment
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The only thing I wondered was whether an all-Reich programme was the most interesting that could have been devised. But unless the presenter was in a sound-proofed box, the audience seemed remarkably quiet during the performance (and noisy when it ended).
Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte 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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I reckon if Beethoven had known his 7th symphony would be performed in a car park one day, he'd have leapt out of his sedan chair.Originally posted by doversoul1 View PostAs I have / did not listen to the concert itself, I can’t agree or disagree with the review but the short video is interesting. This seems a very good way of offering a chance to hear music to those who think going to a place like the RAH is not their thing but are curious or even vaguely interested in ‘that sort of’ music. I almost think this could work better for young children (or more to the point their parents) than the Cbeebies Prom at the RAH.
[ed.] if this video is anything to go by, the concert seems to have no gimmick or pretence. Just music as it is, and well played.Comment
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It's MUISCOriginally posted by StatMallard View Post
you know, the stuff where people arrange sounds into patterns they find interesting
and sometimes people do this in different places
This is a well established venue and projectComment
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Not so long ago, there was as I remember a new cafeteria opened on the roof of that particular car park, which, along with spectacular views all around, became a popular community gathering point. I must pop over there sometime and check if it's still going.Originally posted by MrGongGong View PostComment
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Excellent concert close to Nelson Mandela House and not far from the Camberwell Arts College.
I liked the car park concept and enjoyed all three works by Reich featured in the programme. While I tend to have Reich, Riley, Adams and to some extent Glass in one category and know that it is the 1960s which is the main point of historical reference, the late 1970s/early 1980s dates of these works have a pivotal meaning for me. They post date by a few years Oldfield's Tubular Bells and pre date by a few years much of the key music on Windham Hill Records by Isham, Hedges and Ackerman. Is that comment awful? I hope not because it represents my slightly broader thinking and, of course, I have a number of gamelans and marimbas in there too, several recorded very much earlier.
In the mid 2000s, the then little known Go Team! recorded a rather strange but big selling pop disc. It contained a track called "Everyone's a VIP to Someone". Ever since, I have been trying to decide which parts of it are original instrumentation and which parts sample. The internet has it that there are bits of Fred Neil's "Everybody's Talkin'" and the 5th Dimensions's "Stoned Soul Picnic" in it. I have long been convinced that Bob and Marcia's "Young Gifted and Black"* is also "involved" and now I'm feeling that it could additionally contain Reich's "Eight Lines", albeit manipulated. But I won't include a link as I am probably wrong and I don't want to divert from what is a classical music forum!
*Their version rather than the original by Nina SimoneLast edited by Lat-Literal; 06-09-16, 14:15.Comment
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