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Post by MartinT on Jun 24, 2022 21:58:23 GMT
We got close but there just isn't the interest by the people who could sponsor or raise the money. So much money for opera, so little for classical music.
The Barbican will never be a great hall because of its sound and mediocre organ.
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Post by julesd68 on Jul 1, 2022 14:21:00 GMT
Priti Patel is all heart. 
After having her arm twisted she agrees to waive £18k visa fees for Ukrainian orchestra heading for the Proms.
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Post by MartinT on Jul 1, 2022 17:12:46 GMT
She would not have done it of her own accord.
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Post by julesd68 on Jul 2, 2022 23:47:13 GMT
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Post by julesd68 on Jul 6, 2022 15:23:08 GMT
Happy Birthday to the wonderful Vladimir Ashkenazy!  |
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Post by julesd68 on Jul 7, 2022 12:27:42 GMT
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Post by julesd68 on Jul 21, 2022 14:01:43 GMT
My mother was fortunate enough to see Jeneba Kanneh-Mason's solo piano recital at the Buxton Festival recently. I mention this because apparently the 19 year old was completely outstanding in every regard, showing a depth of musicality way beyond her years. I'm going to look out for London performances and I expect recordings will be forthcoming.  |
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Post by Slinger on Jul 21, 2022 14:23:43 GMT
Have you seen this, Jules?
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Post by Slinger on Jul 21, 2022 14:30:02 GMT
£4.25 with postage for the CD at Amazon. I've just ordered it.
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Post by julesd68 on Jul 21, 2022 15:03:52 GMT
Yes I think that's been out a while but seems she is gradually doing more solo work now.
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Post by julesd68 on Jul 21, 2022 21:13:09 GMT
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Post by julesd68 on Jul 28, 2022 12:10:53 GMT
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Post by MartinT on Jul 28, 2022 14:23:25 GMT
Very sobering reading.
I have wondered for a long time how London can sustain four leading orchestras, not to mention the BBC having another six orchestras. Rationalise or die may be the burning objective but many good musicians will find themselves out of a job. If the unions resist (as they always do), then it may all come collapsing down with whole orchestras broken up.
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Post by julesd68 on Jul 28, 2022 16:58:11 GMT
I don't know how six BBC orchestras have survived this long to be honest.
London is a different case but will struggle unless we all go back to concerts like we did before COVID - I'll admit that I haven't got back to the number of concerts I used to attend.
I attended a lunchtime concert yesterday for the first time in what must be years!
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Post by MartinT on Jul 28, 2022 17:23:53 GMT
London badly needs a premiere venue with a Ruffatti organ. That would help a lot. At the moment, it's different flavours of not very good.
Festival Hall: the best acoustics but a feeble organ
Albert Hall: pretty awful acoustics and never designed as a concert hall but superb organ
Barbican Hall: poor acoustics and poor organ
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Post by julesd68 on Jul 28, 2022 17:42:40 GMT
Albert Hall acoustics are never going to be great, but somehow the sense of occasion at the Proms makes up for this when I go.
It's funny I don't mind the Barbican acoustics but maybe I'm just so used to them that I don't know much better!
In terms of just great acoustics, my mother is lucky to have the Bridgewater Hall as her nearest concert hall - now that does sound fab.
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Post by julesd68 on Aug 5, 2022 13:13:22 GMT
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Post by MartinT on Aug 5, 2022 13:28:30 GMT
It's a worrying trend. Apart from members here, I cannot talk about classical music with any of my good friends. There seems to be no interest at all.
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Post by julesd68 on Sept 6, 2022 14:19:00 GMT
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Post by Slinger on Sept 6, 2022 15:26:06 GMT
It's a worrying trend. Apart from members here, I cannot talk about classical music with any of my good friends. There seems to be no interest at all. +1 A lot of this goes back to the point I bang on about endlessly, which is that classical music - especially the fat birds screaming in Italian and them gays prancing around to music in their tights - is still **PERCEIVED** in many circles, as elitist, and snob-ridden. Unless that perception is changed nothing else will change. Back to classical music in schools, not just in music lessons, but at assemblies (do they still hold daily assemblies?) too, like it was when I were a lad, and all this were just fields... I'd love to see a subject like "The History of Music Composition - Plainsong to Pop" introduced as a part of the national curriculum. Play a bit of music, explain a bit of its history, ask the pupils to guess what the composers (from Hildegards von Bingen to Burt Bacharach) were attempting to convey, and why they think they either succeeded or failed. That's straight off the top of my head, and hopefully, if a similar idea came to fruition somebody would put alott more work, and thought, into it.  My stepson is 50 now and despite his mum's love of classical music and mine, he was simply never interested. His main complaint when he was in his teens was, I seem to remember, that " the music I listen to goes up and down, but classical music just stays at one level, it's boring, and it gives me a headache". This from the lad who had taken to " borrowing" my Bad Company albums, and was a fan of The Prodigy, amongst others. Stations like Classic FM, Radio 3, and Scala are obviously surviving, so there must still be some interest at least, but is that just our generation in the main, and are we a dying breed? I hope not.
Music is a more potent instrument than any other for education.PLATOSome people think music education is a privilege, but think it's essential to being human.JEWELI would teach children music, physics, and philosophy; but most importantly, music, for the patterns in music and all the arts are the keys to learning.PLATOOne of the most beautiful things we can give our child is musical education.GLORIA ESTEFAN |
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