What concerts are you looking forward to? (Part II)

[EigenUser]

January 31st, 2016
BERIO: Sinfonia
MAHLER: Symphony No. 1
Curtis Institute of Music (Philadelphia)

February 13th, 2016
MAHLER: Symphony No. 6
New York Philharmonic, Seymon Bychkov

March 12th, 2016
MESSIAEN: Turangalila-Symphonie
New York Philharmonic, Esa-Pekka Salonen

April 9th, 2016
RAVEL: Piano Concerto for the Left Hand
GERSHWIN: An American in Paris
Philadelphia Orchestra, Yannick Nezet-Seguin

June 3rd, 2016
LIGETI: Piano Concerto
Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art

June 5th, 2016
LIGETI: Violin Concerto
Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art

[ComposerOfAvantGarde]

Those concerts looks like they will be really awesome! especially the Messiaen and Ligeti.

[EigenUser]

Those concerts looks like they will be really awesome! especially the Messiaen and Ligeti.

I know! I'm really looking forward to them. I saw the Messiaen Turangalila-Symphonie this past May with the CSO. As I just mentioned to Bruce (GMG mod) in an email yesterday, I feel like a kid getting back in line to go on the same roller coaster a second time.

I also saw Aimard do the Ligeti PC this past August in NYC, which was great. Messiaen's Oiseaux Exotiques and Benjamin's chamber opera Into the Little Hill were also on the program.

[ComposerOfAvantGarde]

I know! I'm really looking forward to them. I saw the Messiaen Turangalila-Symphonie this past May with the CSO. As I just mentioned to Bruce (GMG mod) in an email yesterday, I feel like a kid getting back in line to go on the same roller coaster a second time.

I also saw Aimard do the Ligeti PC this past August in NYC, which was great. Messiaen's Oiseaux Exotiques and Benjamin's chamber opera Into the Little Hill were also on the program.

Man....I live in a cultural desert.....but this year Aimard will be in here in Melbourne performing Vingt regards sur l'enfant-Jésus, something I really want to see.

[bhodges]

Man....I live in a cultural desert.....but this year Aimard will be in here in Melbourne performing Vingt regards sur l'enfant-Jésus, something I really want to see.

Yes, yes, YES. If "quality over quantity," Aimard in Messiaen should be a great one.

--Bruce

[EigenUser]

Man....I live in a cultural desert.....but this year Aimard will be in here in Melbourne performing Vingt regards sur l'enfant-Jésus, something I really want to see.

Go see it! It's a great piece. I admit that I don't care for all 20 pieces, but there are a few that I am crazy about (1, 2, 6, 10, 20, off the top of my head).

I'm actually finishing up an orchestration of the 10th one right now.

[ComposerOfAvantGarde]

Yes, yes, YES. If "quality over quantity," Aimard in Messiaen should be a great one.

--Bruce

Go see it! It's a great piece. I admit that I don't care for all 20 pieces, but there are a few that I am crazy about (1, 2, 6, 10, 20, off the top of my head).

I'm actually finishing up an orchestration of the 10th one right now.

I better hurry up and get a job so I can make some $$$ to see this!

[Monsieur Croche]

I better hurry up and get a job so I can make some $$$ to see this!

I recommend begging on the street, using a sign that says, "Need money to buy ticket to hear Aimard play Messiaen's Vingt regards sur l'enfant-Jésus live, or I will die of musical starvation."

If you look at the ads and season programs of what is available in a handful of the truly major classical music centers of this world, almost all very large cities with populations in the millions, with Amsterdam and San Francisco being two notable exceptions of metropolitan areas with a high consumption and sophistication in the arts while being under a population of one million, one could get a severe case of longing to move to one of those places. Not only is there a much higher number of modern / contemporary done in those, but there is too, often a much wider spectrum of the old repertoire being regularly performed as well.

You are young, so I suggest that if later what you need in the way of higher training and later career possibilities as well points to any one of those places, I urge you to consider the adventure of then leaving 'all you know of home' behind and sallying forth. [Besides, places you leave do not tend to roll up the pavements and disappear off the face of the earth, even if you move away and stay away for decades.] 

[SimonNZ]

I think I mentioned it on another thread, but in July - if I can afford it and can make the trip to Wellington - I'll be able to see and hear Andrew Davis conducting Messiaen's Éclairs sur l'Au-delà.

Can't imagine when i'll have another chance to hear this work live again. In fact it'll be my first chance of hearing anything of Messiaen performed locally.

[Monsieur Croche]

I think I mentioned it on another thread, but in July - if I can afford it and can make the trip to Wellington - I'll be able to see and hear Andrew Davis conducting Messiaen's Éclairs sur l'Au-delà.

Can't imagine when i'll have another chance to hear this work live again. In fact it'll be my first chance of hearing anything of Messiaen performed locally.

Even in those more hive-busy major music centers, some repertoire just does not come up that often. Having lived in three such places, over many decades, the opportunity to hear Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex, either in concert or staged, came up exactly once....

The sales pitch then, is this:
Once you've obtained the ticket, planned the journey, attended that concert, you will afterwards remember the concert forever, while the cost and juggle to make the trip will soon fade and not much after be long-forgotten.

Many things in life, even if you are at the younger end of it, end up being that thing of "Now, Or Never."


Best regards.

[ComposerOfAvantGarde]

I recommend begging on the street, using a sign that says, "Need money to buy ticket to hear Aimard play Messiaen's Vingt regards sur l'enfant-Jésus live, or I will die of musical starvation."

If you look at the ads and season programs of what is available in a handful of the truly major classical music centers of this world, almost all very large cities with populations in the millions, with Amsterdam and San Francisco being two notable exceptions of metropolitan areas with a high consumption and sophistication in the arts while being under a population of one million, one could get a severe case of longing to move to one of those places. Not only is there a much higher number of modern / contemporary done in those, but there is too, often a much wider spectrum of the old repertoire being regularly performed as well.

You are young, so I suggest that if later what you need in the way of higher training and later career possibilities as well points to any one of those places, I urge you to consider the adventure of then leaving 'all you know of home' behind and sallying forth. [Besides, places you leave do not tend to roll up the pavements and disappear off the face of the earth, even if you move away and stay away for decades.] 

Ah, well my Life Plan in its current state reminds me to use the local ensembles to their full extent so I can become known in Australia as a composer before trying my luck overseas. The smaller population here makes it easier, of course. Plus there are some great ensembles like Plexus, Syzygy ensemble, Speak Percussion and Elision, which all specialise in new classical music.

[Chronochromie]

A ton of really great concerts coming up in 2016.


Mahler's 1st, 8th and 9th.

Ligeti and Kurtag Double Concertos and Lindberg's Kraft.

Murail complete solo piano music and Sciarrino complete solo flute.

Arditti Quartet playing Schoenberg and Ferneyhough, with Ferneyhough in attendance.

The new Dusapin Cello Concerto (in a programme with Poulenc's 2 pianos concerto with Jean-Philippe Collard and Ravel's La Valse).

Dallapiccola's Il Prigioniero and Volo di notte.

Saariaho's The Tempest Songbook.

Argerich and Barenboim piano duet.

Tons of Ginastera of  course, including the Violin Concerto and Beatrix Cenci.

...Begging on the street looks like a plan. 

[EigenUser]

A ton of really great concerts coming up in 2016.


Mahler's 1st, 8th and 9th.

Ligeti and Kurtag Double Concertos and Lindberg's Kraft.

Murail complete solo piano music and Sciarrino complete solo flute.

Arditti Quartet playing Schoenberg and Ferneyhough, with Ferneyhough in attendance.

The new Dusapin Cello Concerto (in a programme with Poulenc's 2 pianos concerto with Jean-Philippe Collard and Ravel's La Valse).

Dallapiccola's Il Prigioniero and Volo di notte.

Saariaho's The Tempest Songbook.

Argerich and Barenboim piano duet.

Tons of Ginastera of  course, including the Violin Concerto and Beatrix Cenci.

...Begging on the street looks like a plan. 

Cool name! I'm a huge fan of Messiaen (although I will admit that Chronochromie is one of his few orchestral works that I can't seem to figure out).

[Chronochromie]

Cool name! I'm a huge fan of Messiaen (although I will admit that Chronochromie is one of his few orchestral works that I can't seem to figure out).

Thanks! Have you heard the recording by Cambreling and the SWR Symphony Orchestra? It's the one that made me love the work, although he does go a bit too fast in the Epode...

[SimonNZ]

What city are you in, Chronochromie?

[Chronochromie]

What city are you in, Chronochromie?

Buenos Aires.

[EigenUser]

Thanks! Have you heard the recording by Cambreling and the SWR Symphony Orchestra? It's the one that made me love the work, although he does go a bit too fast in the Epode...

I'll give it a try sometime soon. I've heard SWR do a bunch of Messiaen, but I don't think I've listened to their recording of Chronochromie.

[North Star]

Welcome, Chronochromie! Cambreling & SWR's recording of Chronochromie is indeed quite good as far as I recall. And the work is certainly beautiful.

Buenos Aires, you say? Love Piazzolla!

[ComposerOfAvantGarde]

Buenos Aires, you say? Love Piazzolla!

and Kagel

[North Star]

and Kagel

And Ginastera.