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Music Lane It's all about the music, dude! Sit down, relax and listen to some tunes. |
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In Reply to: The Bostoners last night under Jimmy gave us Berlioz' Damnation of Faust. posted by clarkjohnsen on February 11, 2007 at 12:56:56:
Players devote their lives to nailing center sound/pitch, developing their own conceptions of sound on their axes, ensemble blend, subtle nuance and inflection on solos, adjustments for stage/hall acoustics....and you rank orchestras through a radio.Listening to the radio and records I grew up thinking Joe Henderson had a huge and powerful sound. The first time I heard him live I was amazed at how small and soft his sound was. Beautiful, rounded, full of nuance, but when he veered from the mic I could hardly hear him from ten feet away. By contrast, Dexter Gordon filled the whole club (long gone Storyville) with his huge sound sans mic. How such things could be considered unimportant is beyond me. You sure as hell can't hear musicians' true sounds through a radio no matter how good your system is. Judging an orchestra without hearing them live and feeling the solo and ensemble sounds in your gut is half-assed, to say the least.
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Follow Ups
- Judging orchestras by hearing them through a radio?! - Rick W 13:58:00 02/11/07 (14)
- Someone's in the thrall of Levine - markrohr 14:30:32 02/11/07 (13)
- "...for no reason apparent to me." So: You heard the Berlioz. What was there not to love? - clarkjohnsen 11:34:10 02/12/07 (6)
- Re: "...for no reason apparent to me." So: You heard the Berlioz. What was there not to love? - Brian Cheney 15:36:35 02/12/07 (2)
- "It seems curious to choose the least-performed Beethoven symphony,.." - clarkjohnsen 10:35:09 02/13/07 (1)
- Re: "It seems curious to choose the least-performed Beethoven symphony,.." - Brian Cheney 18:02:30 02/13/07 (0)
- "So: You heard the Berlioz." Nope, didn't say that. - markrohr 12:12:19 02/12/07 (2)
- "I find him utterly ordinary." Unlike Dyer, Schwartz, Gantz, Medrick, Katz, Eichler and every other Boston critic. - clarkjohnsen 12:30:18 02/12/07 (1)
- I don't make judgments, musical or otherwise - markrohr 04:19:22 02/13/07 (0)
- I haven't heard the BSO in many years, but..... - Rick W 14:49:49 02/11/07 (5)
- Re: I haven't heard the BSO in many years, but..... - Todd Krieger 01:43:47 02/12/07 (3)
- Maybe so, but this was about *ranking* orchestras. nt - Rick W 14:59:30 02/12/07 (0)
- attaboy, Todd K---go, go, go - docw 12:38:58 02/12/07 (0)
- "The digitization of music has stunted our ability..." Indeed! The CD (untreated) makes it almost impossible... - clarkjohnsen 11:23:20 02/12/07 (1)
- They can't be, given the classical music business today. - rbolaw 16:22:33 02/11/07 (0)
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