"Live from Lincoln Center" - Wednesday Sept 17

[Iago]

PBS will televise the Gala Opening Night concert of the NY Philharmonic. The HD feed will truly be "Live" in the 16:9 Widescreen format. 8 PMEST

Program ;
    Roman Carnival Overture- Berlioz
    Flute Concerto - Ibert (James Galway- soloist)
    Symphony #4 - Tschaikovsky

Loren Maazel - conductor.

I don't know why I bothered posting this. The snobbish doyens of esoteric taste populating this forum, wouldn't waste their precious time LISTENING to Berlioz and Tschaikovsky. Let alone spend time WATCHING them.

[mahler10th]

PBS will televise the Gala Opening Night concert of the NY Philharmonic. The HD feed will truly be "Live" in the 16:9 Widescreen format. 8 PMEST

Program ;
    Roman Carnival Overture- Berlioz
    Flute Concerto - Ibert (James Galway- soloist)
    Symphony #4 - Tschaikovsky

Loren Maazel - conductor.

I don't know why I bothered posting this. The snobbish doyens of esoteric taste populating this forum, wouldn't waste their precious time LISTENING to Berlioz and Tschaikovsky. Let alone spend time WATCHING them.

Well Iago, I wish I could see that...two of MY favourite composers anyway, regardless of possible snobberies.  I would skip the Galway however...maybe a nice piece he's doing but his performances and presentation overall is too generic for me to consider him seriously in the Classical mould (even though he is... )

[greg]

I don't know why I bothered posting this. The snobbish doyens of esoteric taste populating this forum, wouldn't waste their precious time LISTENING to Berlioz and Tschaikovsky. Let alone spend time WATCHING them.

Oh, so since some of us listen to composers like Xenakis means we automatically never listen to Tchaikovsky or Berlioz?

aha........  ha............

i'd love to see it except i just turned the TV to PBS except i didn't see it on. 
you mean tonight?

[Lilas Pastia]

I'd certainly give the Berlioz and Ibert an eye and an ear. ! Not so sure about the Tchaikovsky, though. This work is bearable only if treated in the same way as Berlioz' own Fantastique, which it ain't most of the time. I like it over the top, screaming like a banshee and panting like a panther in heat. I don't think Maazel has that in him nowadays.

[Gurn Blanston]

Oh, so since some of us listen to composers like Xenakis means we automatically never listen to Tchaikovsky or Berlioz?

aha........  ha............

i'd love to see it except i just turned the TV to PBS except i didn't see it on. 
you mean tonight?

Dude, look at the name of the thread...  



PS - Iago, I invite you to listen to what I am listening to, if you aren't too snobbish, of course.

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Listening to:
Concerto Köln / Jacobs - K 492 Opera buffa in 4 acts "Le nozze di Figaro" - ACT II  14 -  Esci, ormai, garzon malnato

[Dancing Divertimentian]

Looks like a pretty nice program. I'd watch it. Especially for the Berlioz, who is awesome!

[knight66]

I don't know why I bothered posting this. The snobbish doyens of esoteric taste populating this forum, wouldn't waste their precious time LISTENING to Berlioz and Tschaikovsky. Let alone spend time WATCHING them.

Sounding like a cracked record; or just cracked.

Mike

[Grazioso]

Sounding like a cracked record; or just cracked.

Mike

Shame on you guys for taking his (usual) bait

[BachQ]

you mean tonight?

YES!  Tonight! 

[greg]

Dude, look at the name of the thread...  



PS - Iago, I invite you to listen to what I am listening to, if you aren't too snobbish, of course.

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Listening to:
Concerto Köln / Jacobs - K 492 Opera buffa in 4 acts "Le nozze di Figaro" - ACT II  14 -  Esci, ormai, garzon malnato

hehe 

[bhodges]

I will be going to this concert tomorrow night, and looking forward to it.  Maazel has done the Berlioz recently (IIRC) but not the Ibert, and it's been a long time since I've heard Galway play.  And the Tchaikovsky 4th Symphony is a lot of fun in the right hands.

--Bruce

[BachQ]

PBS will televise the Gala Opening Night concert of the NY Philharmonic.

I would love to watch this; unfortunately, I'll be attending a live performance of a Mozart opera that evening.

[bhodges]

I would love to watch this; unfortunately, I'll be attending a live performance of a Mozart opera that evening.

What are you hearing? 

--Bruce

[Dancing Divertimentian]

I would love to watch this; unfortunately, I'll be attending a live performance of a Mozart opera that evening.

[Brian]

I like it over the top, screaming like a banshee and panting like a panther in heat.

That's a rather disturbing image 

Sounds like a fabulous program, though!

[Iago]

Having just watched the telecast, I can describe the concert in one word. TERRIBLE!!.

When the Star-Spangled Banner is the highlight of the program, you know the concert was in trouble.

The Roman Carnival  Overture was (as usual with Maazel) immaculately played but totally devoid of intensity, and emotional lift. I think back to the marvelous performances of that work given by Charles Munch and the Boston Symphony. who for me provided the standards in performance for that work.

The Ibert Flute Concerto was totally unknown to me before this concert. And now having heard it, I realize I wasn't missing anything. It never provided one memorable moment, and Mr. Galway is beginning to both show and sound his age.

The Tschaikovsky was bulldozed through without any hint of nuance or sensitivity. Mr. Maazel stretched tempi almost to the breaking point in the second movement.

One curiosity, --if this was a "Live" presentation, how come there was no intermission and thus no intermission feature. These LFLC concerts are usually two hours (or more) in length. How come this one was only 90 minutes without an intermission, and that Mr. Galway acted as "host" as well as soloist. He was almost as poor a host as Beverly Sills

All in all, I recorded it for later repeated viewings. But I think I will save some space on my DVR and erase the damned thing immediately. It surely isn't worth preserving.

[greg]

I suppose it was a good thing I missed it, then! 
I turned on the TV last night at 8:00 to PBS and was annoyed that they had something else on- wtf! 

[Iago]

I suppose it was a good thing I missed it, then! 
I turned on the TV last night at 8:00 to PBS and was annoyed that they had something else on- wtf! 

Standard Definition PBS channels do NOT always broadcast the same programs simultaneously as the PBS-HD channels do.

I watched the concert on the PBS-HD channel. You will probably receive that concert on your standard PBS-SD channel (although I don't know why you want to watch it) at a different time on a different date. Check your local listings.

[greg]

Standard Definition PBS channels do NOT always broadcast the same programs simultaneously as the PBS-HD channels do.

I watched the concert on the PBS-HD channel. You will probably receive that concert on your standard PBS-SD channel (although I don't know why you want to watch it) at a different time on a different date. Check your local listings.

Thanks, I didn't know that.