The Classical Chat Thread

[Karl Henning]

How old is the youngest composer you regularly listen to?

He's getting older all the time.

[jlaurson]

Valery Gergiev Signs Contract With Munich Philharmonic
Valery Gergiev Signs Contract With Munich Philharmonic. Here's why, and what to expect:

http://ionarts.blogspot.com/2013/02/valery-gergiev-signs-contract-with.html

[jlaurson]

Ionarts-at-Large: Gergiev's First Time
Gergiev's first concert after officially being announced and presented as the incoming Principal Conductor of the MPhil couldn't have been more symbolic...

http://ionarts.blogspot.com/2013/02/ionarts-at-large-gergievs-first-time.html

see also:

Valery Gergiev Signs Contract With Munich Philharmonic
Valery Gergiev Signs Contract With Munich Philharmonic. Here's why, and what to expect:

http://ionarts.blogspot.com/2013/02/valery-gergiev-signs-contract-with.html

[Brian]

Conductor James DePreist has died, age 76.

[Papy Oli]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/video/2013/feb/08/tortoise-sex-piano-richard-clayderman-video

[Karl Henning]

Well, I've only now learnt that Richard Clayderman was French.

And I certainly understand why the French would try to keep that secret.

[jlaurson]

NSO-at-Large: Nuremberg Pranks

http://ionarts.blogspot.com/2013/02/nso-at-large-nuremberg-pranks.html


NSO-at-Large: Frankfurt Hijinks

http://ionarts.blogspot.com/2013/02/nso-at-large-frankfurt-hijinks.html

[jlaurson]

Anyone can think of a case of "character assassination" in the fields of science or music?

There must be something... but I'm not having any ideas. I was thinking of Gesualdo, for a while, but that wasn't character assassination, that was just assassination. And not of him, but by him.

[Karl Henning]

I'd almost say Golijov, except that that's not character assassination, it's justice ; )

[Opus106]

Robert Oppenheimer (?)

[jlaurson]

Robert Oppenheimer (?)

John Adams as the perpetrator, presumably?

[Karl Henning]

Johann Georg Faust?

[Opus106]

John Adams as the perpetrator, presumably?

No, silly. It was much later, under Eisenhower, I think.

[Karl Henning]

John Cage has suffered some character assassination on this forum.  But I am sure his reputation will survive.

He'd be the first to laugh it off.

[Opus106]

He'd be the first to laugh it off.

Or may have even called it appreciation.

[jlaurson]

No, silly. It was much later, under Eisenhower, I think.

haha. Seriously... I'm not aware if Oppenheimer was defamed in any successful way: Any hinters? 

[Opus106]

haha. Seriously... I'm not aware if Oppenheimer was defamed in any successful way: Any hinters? 

I'm obviously referring to all the hearings post the Manhattan Project. If you attribute the cause to a collective paranoia on the part of some government officials and treat the events as nothing more than a sequence of government-led investigations, then I suppose he won't fit your bill. But it's no secret that at least some of that was fuelled by a feud with Edward Teller.

[Papy Oli]

A condition comment on a used copy of the Chailly Bruckner cycle :

Used - Like New - Unfortunately disc 5 is missing. all other discs perfect though

oh that's ok then... 

[jlaurson]

A condition comment on a used copy of the Chailly Bruckner cycle :

oh that's ok then... 

Don't start being picky. That's like... barely 10%. And the 5th Symphony, really... it's not like you don't have it already. :-)
Anyone who already has the 5th, though, and not the others, might get a bargain...

[jlaurson]

Ionarts-at-Large: Mahler With Mehta and Angel Blue
Seriously, "Angel Blue" is not a stripper?

http://ionarts.blogspot.com/2013/02/ionarts-at-large-mahler-with-mehta-and.html