Ottevanger's Omphaloskeptic Outpost

[Guido]

Nice notes - clear and well written. Not too long.

Are you tinkling the ivories during the performance?

[sul G]

Yes I will. It's harder than I thought - not technically, but in terms of trying to choose whether to go with the conductor or the orchestra 

Oh, and Karl, it isn't the conductor's fault. He's been putting in an immense amount of effort.

[sul G]

I hope you all noticed the extent of sul-G-ness in the score....

[karlhenning]

Oh, and Karl, it isn't the conductor's fault. He's been putting in an immense amount of effort.

Of course!

[karlhenning]

Yes I will. It's harder than I thought - not technically, but in terms of trying to choose whether to go with the conductor or the orchestra 

Somewhere up in heaven, John Cage is smiling.

[Guido]

Which heaven would that be?      

Can we expect a recording? Or are you going to be coy and say it depends on the quality of the performance!?

[bhodges]

Good luck, and try not to fret about things.  Savor the moment!

--Bruce

[sul G]

Which heaven would that be?      

Can we expect a recording? Or are you going to be coy and say it depends on the quality of the performance!?

Consider me coy. You guessed right.

I will record the rehearsal as well - maybe I'll be able to splice something decent out of it. But no promises!

[Mark G. Simon]

...and the (probably too long) note for the piece (I think all of this was covered in the original thread, but maybe not all in one place):

Elegy and Ascent (2008)

Elegy – Memorial Trio and Chorale
Ascent - ...towards Ishaan...

Elegy is made of up two orchestrated extracts from Memorial, a long, unfinished piano piece of mine dating from 2001. That piece is strongly bound-up with the idea of 'fate', and for this reason every note of it was chosen by chance operations (the drawing of cards giving the notes and the order in which they are to be played). .....

I trust this is what you've put in the printed program notes, not what you plan to deliver orally before the performance. For a spoken introduction it looks to me to be very very very long. Time yourself speaking it as if you were addressing an audience in a large hall. Anything longer than a 2 or 3 minutes is going to make the audience fidget and say "shut up and just give us the piece already!!"

[Maciek]

Unless you spice it up with lots of hilarious jokes. In which case they'll hope you never get to the piece itself.

Anyway, where was I? Ah!


How wonderful to see the thread revived!

Unless there's some way to unlock the old one, which I doubt.

Actually, that could be done very easily, and I could stitch all the posts from this thread onto the old ono, no problem. BUT you won't be able to lock it up by yourself anymore, since it's not really you but someone named lukeottevanger who started that thread in the first place. But you could always drop one of the mods a line, if you wanted it locked (or perhaps our almighty admin is capable of relaying Luke's rights over to you - but even if he could, would he?? ).

[karlhenning]

Actually, that could be done very easily, and I could stitch all the posts from this thread onto the old one, no problem.

That is as I had guessed.

[Maciek]

Shouldn't that new nick of yours be "sul G bell"?

[sul G]

I trust this is what you've put in the printed program notes, not what you plan to deliver orally before the performance. For a spoken introduction it looks to me to be very very very long. Time yourself speaking it as if you were addressing an audience in a large hall. Anything longer than a 2 or 3 minutes is going to make the audience fidget and say "shut up and just give us the piece already!!"

Thanks Mark. You're right, for a spoken intro that would be very long! Actually, what I'm going to say is longer still, however - but I'm not saying it as an introduction standing in front of the audience just prior to the piece being played; I'm saying it earlier in the evening, as a separate more detailed talk about the piece for those who want to attend. Hopefully it won't be too long for that (I did a similar talk before the performance of The Chant of Carnus which seemed to go down OK)

Maciek - I'd be more than happy for the unlocking to occur as you say it could. But I'll leave it up to you...

[Maciek]

Merged and unlocked. Enjoy.

[sul G]

Wow!

1) that was quick

and

2) that is cool!

Thanks! The Outpost is reinhabited!    Sorry for the hiatus, folks 

And now I must go to bed. Will report in when I get a chance, probably not till Sunday unless I'm lucky and you guys aren't.... Good night!

[sul G]

...though before I go, I've just read over the last few pages of the thread as it was left in October, and I thought, perhaps I ought to report on how the Case of the Confusing Harmonics concluded. 

First rehearsal, strings only. Lead cellist comes up to me. 'I've been looking forward to playing your piece, Luke, you gave us such fun things to do last time.'

'Thank you! I hope you enjoy it this time too - here's your part.'

'Thanks. Oh, look, some harmonics' [proceeds to play them correctly]

[sul G]

Was that naughty? 

[Guido]

No, it was exactly what any musician would have expected to happen.

[karlhenning]

; )

[karlhenning]

Thanks, Maciek, for the thread merge!