Ed,
I'd just put on Mahler's Eighth (BBC Prom) a few minutes before your
message came through and can hear it in the next room as I type. Now
there's something! What with a choir of 1,000, 10 soloists and a
triple-sized symphony orchestra it's what biologists call a "super-stimulus".
Keith
P.S. I once sang in this. What with the resources needing to be so large,
not to speak of an appropriate audience, we (pretty well all the choirs of
Bath) sang this in a railway station -- Green Park Station with high glass
vaulting and built by that great engineer, Isambard Kingdom Brunel
(1806-1859). To my surprise, I now discover that he didn't quite overlap
with Mahler (1860-1911) but these two creators certainly produced a
majestic occasion for all of us who took part.
At 15:05 16/07/2010 -0400, Ed Weick wrote:
I have several CDs of Britten's music. When I listen to them, I dream of
archways in ancient churches, gargoyles, and spirits hiding in dark
places, but that may not be what Britten intended?
Ed
----- Original Message -----
From: <mailto:[email protected]>Keith Hudson
To: <mailto:[email protected]>RE-DESIGNING WORK, INCOME
DISTRIBUTION,EDUCATION ; <mailto:[email protected]>Ray Harrell
Sent: Friday, July 16, 2010 1:44 PM
Subject: Re: [Futurework] Fw: [Ottawadissenters] Fw: More dismal stuff
At 13:13 16/07/2010 -0400, Ray Harrell wrote:
Thank you Ed,
I was offered to direct a performance of the Britten Masterpiece Albert
Herring at Brooklyn College this year and I turned it down because I
just couldn't get the system or as we say in opera, the convention or
style of English culture.
I shouldn't worry if I were you. By far the majority of English people
don't get it either. Personally I find Britten pretentious -- but then
I'm an old reactionary. I think English music stopped with Elgar (Vaughan
Williams perhaps).
I'll duck my head now.
Keith
Keith Hudson, Saltford, England
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