What Allan is playing

[SonicMan46]

Not too much to report lately performance wise. Some kids shows and other neighborhood kind of shows here and there. Economic things have been tightening up quite a bit.  We're not only seeing program changes for pieces that require loads of performers to smaller things that don't require the hiring of extras, but also seeing program changes due to rental part expenses being taken into account.  I'm scared.

Allan - sorry to read the above about being scared! 

The economy really SUCKS and is impacting on so many - will take a while but hoping the 'new' administration will make a difference?   Good luck, my friend - Dave 

[toledobass]

Awesomeness tonight!!!! Brahms 3 and DSCH violin concerto.....super excited.


Allan

[Cato]

Awesomeness tonight!!!! Brahms 3 and DSCH violin concerto.....super excited.


Allan

So what happened?   Did the skies open and then did Herbert von Karajan appear and bless the proceedings?   0:)

[karlhenning]

Great program, Allan! (I'm guessing the First Concerto? Though either is quite sufficiently awesome.)

[toledobass]

Great concert last night.  The week has been good, if a little taxing at times.  Lots and lots of info thrown at us with not a lot of playing sometimes, especially in the beginning half of the week.  Sometimes Stefan is so detailed and he can keep keeps up a very verbal kind of rehearsing up through dress rehearsal.  It can be difficult to remember what is what when you don't get to play through larger sections of a movement at a time.  This week he ran through both pieces prior to dress rehearsal though. Something sorta of new to his rehearsal process that I very much appreciated.

The detail he pounded over and over really was beneficial in the end.  The Brahms is so dense that it can get really murky really quickly.  I didn't realize how difficult it is to really put that music across.  There is so much going on, it takes some real finesse and in Stefan's words 'discipline' to make sure the transparency is there.  No wonder it isn't played more often.

DSCH is being played by our concert master, Kirk Toth. Yes, Karl it is the first concerto.  He's doing an excellent job and it is a great piece. I hope the audience is getting benefits from listening to our performance.

Here is the Blade review from last nights performance.

Allan

[karlhenning]

Wow, and your own concertmaster tackling the Opus 77! Excellent!

[toledobass]

Yeah Karl,  he's a bad ass....

[bhodges]

That Shostakovich is one of my fave violin concertos, and from the review it sounds like you all did it justice.  I'm also impressed that Sanderling did the Brahms first, and then the concerto.  Most conductors would reverse the order, but this is more creative.

Congrats, wish I could have heard that!

--Bruce

[toledobass]

Kind of a trying week for me up in Lansing.  We're playing the following program:

ROSSINI - Overture to Semiramide
MENDELSSOHN - Symphony No. 3 "Scottish"
PAULUS - Concerto for Two Trumpets & Orchestra

Things are just really heavy and the rehearsal process seems like we haven't accomplished all that much aside from running through the pieces time and time again.  There isn't a lot of insight into the style of this music.  Lack of attention to dynamics is really annoying me.  The group hasn't found a mp let alone a real pianissimo.  Tonight is dress rehearsal so we'll see what happens tonight.

Allan

[bhodges]

Well, good luck tonight, and I'll hope to hear that pianissimos have been sighted.  (That's one of my pet peeves, too.) 

--Bruce

[Bogey]

Good luck, Allan.

[Cato]

Well, good luck tonight, and I'll hope to hear that pianissimos have been sighted.  (That's one of my pet peeves, too.) 

--Bruce

One of the most marvelous "PPP" perfromances I ever heard was the final bars of the Mahler Ninth Symphony by the Cleveland Orchestra with Christoph von Dohnanyi conducting. 

As affecting as any TA-DAA finale.

[karlhenning]

Aye.

[toledobass]

SWEEET!!!!

Unfreakin believable news


Allan

[Cato]

SWEEET!!!!

Unfreakin believable news


Allan

The Toledo Symphony at Carnegie Hall!   

So what will you be playing?  The Koussevitzky Contrabass Concerto ?   0:)

Yay Team!  Will the Mudhens be playing in Yankee Stadium soon?   

[Bogey]

SWEEET!!!!

Unfreakin believable news


Allan

Like it or not Allan, I am going to be putting this on a better thread so those that do not haunt here will see it.  Congrats!

[karlhenning]

I applaud the deed, Bill, but I must offer a slight emendation:

No thread is better than this  0:)

Heartiest felicitations, Allan!  ¡Andale!

[Sergeant Rock]

SWEEET!!!!

Unfreakin believable news


Allan

Wow...fantastic news, Allan. And you get a free trip to NYC! 

Sarge

[toledobass]

hold up... who said FREE?!?!?!?!!  We better be getting some overscale and a good per diem for this trip 

Thanks for the congrats guys.  I don;t know anymore info than what's been printed in the article.  When I know more about the program we'll be choosing etc, I'll be sure and let you all know.


Allan

[toledobass]

So the official email from our management basically says only that we are going.  It gives some details as to what the festival is and who is involved, but also says that the program can't be announced until the festival announces it first. 


Allan