Prom 4 - 16.07.17: Daniel Barenboim and Staatskapelle Berlin

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  • pastoralguy
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    • Nov 2010
    • 7738

    Originally posted by MrGongGong View Post
    I think it's my turn to say that
    it's all about context
    Exactly! I've written about this occason on these boards before but I remember hearing a very young Nigel Kennedy playing the Tchaikovsky violin concerto with the SNO under Christopher Seaman at the Kelvin Halls during their Prom season in Glasgow in 1979. At the end of the first movement, the audience simply erupted and many people were on their feet. It was then that many realised just what a special talent Nig was.

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    • MrGongGong
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      • Nov 2010
      • 18357

      Originally posted by pastoralguy View Post
      Exactly! I've written about this occason on these boards before but I remember hearing a very young Nigel Kennedy playing the Tchaikovsky violin concerto with the SNO under Christopher Seaman at the Kelvin Halls during their Prom season in Glasgow in 1979. At the end of the first movement, the audience simply erupted and many people were on their feet. It was then that many realised just what a special talent Nig was.
      Can I be the first to say how much he has let himself go

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      • pastoralguy
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        • Nov 2010
        • 7738

        Originally posted by MrGongGong View Post
        Can I be the first to say how much he has let himself go
        Me or Nig?!

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        • pastoralguy
          Full Member
          • Nov 2010
          • 7738

          I suspect that Nigel's odd career 'developments' haven't all been due to his character...

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          • MrGongGong
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            • Nov 2010
            • 18357

            Originally posted by pastoralguy View Post
            I suspect that Nigel's odd career 'developments' haven't all been due to his character...
            I don't think they are "odd" at all
            BUT back to being outraged at people having emotional responses to music

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            • Barbirollians
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              • Nov 2010
              • 11669

              Originally posted by pastoralguy View Post
              Exactly! I've written about this occason on these boards before but I remember hearing a very young Nigel Kennedy playing the Tchaikovsky violin concerto with the SNO under Christopher Seaman at the Kelvin Halls during their Prom season in Glasgow in 1979. At the end of the first movement, the audience simply erupted and many people were on their feet. It was then that many realised just what a special talent Nig was.

              Exceptional circumstances !

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              • Maclintick
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                • Jan 2012
                • 1065

                Originally posted by MrGongGong View Post
                I don't think they are "odd" at all
                BUT back to being outraged at people having emotional responses to music
                Quite. I may be thick but I can't find the "Eternal & Extremely Boring Debate Re The Pros & Cons Of Clapping Between Movements" thread....Hosts, please advise...

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                • ferneyhoughgeliebte
                  Gone fishin'
                  • Sep 2011
                  • 30163

                  Originally posted by Maclintick View Post
                  Quite. I may be thick but I can't find the "Eternal & Extremely Boring Debate Re The Pros & Cons Of Clapping Between Movements" thread....Hosts, please advise...
                  As is Forum custom, these are distributed among the various concert Threads.
                  [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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                  • Maclintick
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                    • Jan 2012
                    • 1065

                    Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
                    As is Forum custom, these are distributed among the various concert Threads.
                    Mille Grazie, FHG ! I always think one should adhere to customs & traditions -- the more nonsensical the better, in my view !

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                    • BBMmk2
                      Late Member
                      • Nov 2010
                      • 20908

                      Originally posted by Maclintick View Post
                      Mille Grazie, FHG ! I always think one should adhere to customs & traditions -- the more nonsensical the better, in my view !
                      Le Mystyre de Radio 3 Forum!
                      Don’t cry for me
                      I go where music was born

                      J S Bach 1685-1750

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                      • ferneyhoughgeliebte
                        Gone fishin'
                        • Sep 2011
                        • 30163

                        Originally posted by Brassbandmaestro View Post
                        Le Mystyre de Radio 3 Forum!
                        [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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                        • Alison
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                          • Nov 2010
                          • 6455

                          Originally posted by Petrushka View Post
                          Applause between movements no longer bothers me. I don't do it myself but won't stop anyone else from doing so.

                          The fact is there is going to be noise anyway between movements so it's a matter of complete indifference to me whether it's clapping, coughing, rustling a sweet wrapper, talking or the hiss of opening a bottle of water. As long as none of those are done while the music is playing that's just fine by me.
                          Very good summation Pet. The arguments are circular and not half boring!

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                          • Nick Armstrong
                            Host
                            • Nov 2010
                            • 26523

                            Originally posted by MrGongGong View Post
                            One of my favourite Facebook groups is "angry people in local newspapers".
                            Thank you for this!! It's hilarious!
                            "...the isle is full of noises,
                            Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
                            Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
                            Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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                            • silvestrione
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                              • Jan 2011
                              • 1700

                              Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
                              A very rich, generous piece - great tribute to his old foefriend - and too much to take in on one hearing; bits that sounded as if The Triumph of Time had been playing non-stop since its first performance, and we were returning to the hall to hear how it was continuing...
                              Having just listened twice to the Birtwistle, i read through the whole of this thread to see what people made of it...so thank you to the two or three who offered comments. The one above is brilliant: witty and apposite. No thanks to all that stuff about applause!!!

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                              • ferneyhoughgeliebte
                                Gone fishin'
                                • Sep 2011
                                • 30163

                                Thanks, silvestrione. I've listened to the Birtwistle piece regularly since the first broadcast and it grows in impressiveness each time. By some considerable distance, the finest Proms commission in many, many years.

                                The composer talks about the new work on the Boosey & Hawkes website:

                                Harrison Birtwistle introduces his new orchestral work, Deep Time, resonating with temporal and seismic themes and receiving first performances under the baton of Daniel Barenboim in Berlin and London this summer.


                                (Apologies if a link to this has already been posted.)
                                [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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