Urban Shocker
Doyenne
Nice to meet you Tony.
What did you think of the evening?
For me, the first thing was dreadful - music about music that slithered all over the place, only briefly modulated in the midsection. I don't mind not arriving at a destination as long as the journey is worth taking. I got the impression that the person who wrote the program notes couldn't find anything nice to say about it either. Had a nice chat to Wayne Gooding of Opera Canada at the inteermission about this.
I drifted in and out of the Mahler and didn't make enough of an emotional connection to it to carry me through, so it mostly impressed me as a technical exercise. I'm actually not that much of a Mahler man; I think there's a good reason why the Adagietto is the only part of the 5th most people have ever heard. Heresy, I know ...
What did you think of the evening?
For me, the first thing was dreadful - music about music that slithered all over the place, only briefly modulated in the midsection. I don't mind not arriving at a destination as long as the journey is worth taking. I got the impression that the person who wrote the program notes couldn't find anything nice to say about it either. Had a nice chat to Wayne Gooding of Opera Canada at the inteermission about this.
I drifted in and out of the Mahler and didn't make enough of an emotional connection to it to carry me through, so it mostly impressed me as a technical exercise. I'm actually not that much of a Mahler man; I think there's a good reason why the Adagietto is the only part of the 5th most people have ever heard. Heresy, I know ...