Tuesday Night at 8PM EDT. "Live from Lincoln Center" on PBS

[Iago]

Loren Maazel will lead the New York Philharmonic in an all Dvorak program......Carnival Overture, Cello Concerto, Symphony #7. YoYoMa is the soloist in the concerto.
Hope it's in 16:9 HD.
Notice please, it's music that people love. No atonal crap here.

[Gurn Blanston]

Loren Maazel will lead the New York Philharmonic in an all Dvorak program......Carnival Overture, Cello Concerto, Symphony #7. YoYoMa is the soloist in the concerto.
Hope it's in 16:9 HD.
Notice please, it's music that people love. No atonal crap here.

Thanks for the heads up, Iago. Sounds like a plan to me!   

[Catison]

Notice please, it's music that people love. No atonal crap here.

Yes, no tonal crap either. 

[Iago]

Didn't anybody but me listen/watch?

Or is Dvoraks beautiful music too tuneful, emotional, and pleasant for all the "doyens of taste" around here?

[DavidW]

Loren Maazel will lead the New York Philharmonic in an all Dvorak program......Carnival Overture, Cello Concerto, Symphony #7. YoYoMa is the soloist in the concerto.
Hope it's in 16:9 HD.
Notice please, it's music that people love. No atonal crap here.

Yeah but it's Ma and Maazel, so it's sure to be cold and unmoving.

[Gurn Blanston]

Didn't anybody but me listen/watch?

Or is Dvoraks beautiful music too tuneful, emotional, and pleasant for all the "doyens of taste" around here?

It didn't come on my PBS last night. I guess it will one night this week. MY series is called "Not Live from Lincoln Center..."

[DavidW]

It didn't come on my PBS last night. I guess it will one night this week. MY series is called "Not Live from Lincoln Center..."

Nah you just see you're just so far away from civilization that the signals from the tv stations just haven't reached your house yet. jejeje

[bhodges]

I was excited by the program on paper, and mostly the evening turned out very well.  (I love the Cello Concerto and the symphony, and the overture isn't bad, either.) 

Yo-Yo Ma played perfectly well, but I thought his interpretation was a bit "over-the-top intense" for that piece; I wanted more lightness, more momentum, more of a "dance" feel with all those great Czech dance rhythms.  The extreme close-ups of him sweating didn't help, either.  I generally like his playing, but last night he seemed to be "working too hard" to "sell" the piece.

The Carnival Overture was fun (hadn't heard it in awhile) and I thought the Seventh Symphony was also mostly successful.  There were a few places, like the symphony's very final bars, that Maazel played with the tempo a bit, but mostly I liked what I heard.  The orchestra sounded wonderful, as it often does these days.

--Bruce

[orbital]

I watched the first half and the opening minutes of the symphony.

I enjoyed the intermission where Perlman and Ma had a talk where neither understood what the other was talking about the most 

[BachQ]

I generally like his playing, but last night he seemed to be "working too hard" to "sell" the piece.

Interesting analytical framework: when a performer "works too hard," you merely need criticize him/her for "overselling" the piece. 

[bhodges]

Interesting analytical framework: when a performer "works too hard," you merely need criticism him/her for "overselling" the piece. 

I dunno...maybe I wasn't expressing it well.  It's as if he lost sight of the bigger picture, of the overall line.  And the effort he was expending seemed disproportionate to the result.  I kept thinking of the criticism often leveled at Lang Lang: that his body language is so outsized that it takes away from hearing the music.

--Bruce

[Dancing Divertimentian]

Didn't anybody but me listen/watch?

I didn't. Why should I subject myself to yet another helping of the same ol' same ol'? My local classical station already indulges in that.

[Grazioso]

I happened to catch the symphony and found it to be a quality performance (better in the first two movements than the latter two). I'm always happy to listen Dvorak and the other Czech Romantics. I'm a sucker for for that trademark Czech warmth, not to mention "big tunes," which old Antonin had in abundance.