feeling smug/a little music rant
for the first time in 12 years, i'm not in school on jan 2nd. =D
of course that smug feeling will wear off by jan 10th =(
and meanwhile i have to do that psc essay and pract for the concert. ugh. film music -.- doesn't quite feel right without the film. and the spitfire (walton) is kinda humdrum (they used it as a transition in little britain O.o lol). if it wasn't for rhapsody in blue i wouldn't have agreed to play.
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it's a bit galling, how no one wants to do brahms, beethoven or sibelius symphonies - let alone exciting offbeat stuff like nielsen, vaughan williams, stravinsky, mahler, even walton symphony no. 1... the classical music scene in singapore is ridiculously boring. i would really like to go watch a thrilling bartok concerto for orchestra and let my mind be blown to smithereens.
if anyone knows of a performance of the following over the next year (that i'm available to watch of course), please tell me:
BACH: Brandenburg Concertos/ Mass in b minor
BARTOK: Concerto for Orchestra
BEETHOVEN: Violin Concerto/ Triple Concerto
BRAHMS: any Symphonies/ Double Concerto/ Violin Concerto/ Serenade
ELGAR: Cello Concerto/ Enigma Variations
FRANCAIX: anything at all
HINDEMITH: that thing with the weber. whatsitname. Symphonic Metamorphoses
MAHLER: good stuff.
MEDTNER: anything at all
NIELSEN: Symphony no. 4 'Inextinguishable'/ Overture to Maskarade/ Helios Overture
RACHMANINOV: THE Variations
SIBELIUS: any Symphonies (not by TPO plz heh. dunno why they can't pull it off properly)
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: A London Symphony
WALTON: Symphony no. 1
yup thats it.
of course that smug feeling will wear off by jan 10th =(
and meanwhile i have to do that psc essay and pract for the concert. ugh. film music -.- doesn't quite feel right without the film. and the spitfire (walton) is kinda humdrum (they used it as a transition in little britain O.o lol). if it wasn't for rhapsody in blue i wouldn't have agreed to play.
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it's a bit galling, how no one wants to do brahms, beethoven or sibelius symphonies - let alone exciting offbeat stuff like nielsen, vaughan williams, stravinsky, mahler, even walton symphony no. 1... the classical music scene in singapore is ridiculously boring. i would really like to go watch a thrilling bartok concerto for orchestra and let my mind be blown to smithereens.
if anyone knows of a performance of the following over the next year (that i'm available to watch of course), please tell me:
BACH: Brandenburg Concertos/ Mass in b minor
BARTOK: Concerto for Orchestra
BEETHOVEN: Violin Concerto/ Triple Concerto
BRAHMS: any Symphonies/ Double Concerto/ Violin Concerto/ Serenade
ELGAR: Cello Concerto/ Enigma Variations
FRANCAIX: anything at all
HINDEMITH: that thing with the weber. whatsitname. Symphonic Metamorphoses
MAHLER: good stuff.
MEDTNER: anything at all
NIELSEN: Symphony no. 4 'Inextinguishable'/ Overture to Maskarade/ Helios Overture
RACHMANINOV: THE Variations
SIBELIUS: any Symphonies (not by TPO plz heh. dunno why they can't pull it off properly)
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: A London Symphony
WALTON: Symphony no. 1
yup thats it.
posted by Unknown at
11:37 am
2 Comments:
Haha. there was an SSO Bartok Concerto for Orch right after our Prelims..
Beethoven Violin Concerto. SSO, May 30, Leila Josefowicz.
Brahms Symphony 1 4th April..
Mahler 5.. 12 April, Mahler 3 26 Jan(I think its our first book out).
As long as its on a Sat night, theres a pretty high chance of you watching it..
lol i'll probably treat myself to the brahms.
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