{"id":1840,"date":"2009-02-05T06:00:26","date_gmt":"2009-02-05T14:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/?p=1840"},"modified":"2009-02-05T15:39:12","modified_gmt":"2009-02-05T23:39:12","slug":"well-charted-territory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2009\/02\/05\/well-charted-territory\/","title":{"rendered":"well-charted territory"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week’s subscription concert will, with no sarcasm intended, be delightful for the audience.\u00c2\u00a0 What’s not to love?\u00c2\u00a0 The most accessible Stravinsky score ever (Firebird<\/em> Suite – 1919 version), a Haydn Symphony with a cute nickname (The Hen), a perennial top-ten end-of-year radiothon fave in the Rodrigo Concierto de Aranjuez<\/em>, and a bit of downer filler by Busoni.<\/p>\n

\"firebird\"<\/p>\n

For the average orchestral drone, however, this is a deathly week to be in the orchestra, because most of us will just explode if we have to play the Firebird<\/em> one…more…time.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s fantastic music – but it’s also used for everything.\u00c2\u00a0 Need a bit of fanciful storytelling for a youth concert?\u00c2\u00a0 Firebird<\/em>.\u00c2\u00a0 Need some loud music to soothe a restless pops crowd before the headliner comes on?\u00c2\u00a0 Firebird<\/em>.\u00c2\u00a0 Guest conductor that needs something flashy?\u00c2\u00a0 Firebird<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\"heavy-metal-guitar-god-21498\"<\/p>\n

As for the Rodrigo – I’m pretty much in the same boat.\u00c2\u00a0 The balance issues with a guitar soloist are nearly insurmountable without amplification, and at that point I’m wondering why there is even a concerto for an instrument that can’t be heard in a large room with more than 10 people in it without amplification, never mind in a 2700 seat concert hall with a full symphony orchestra playing nearly the entire time.\u00c2\u00a0 I’ve never been a Rodrigo fan anyway, so maybe I should just recuse myself from discussing it altogether.\u00c2\u00a0 Yes, good idea that…<\/p>\n

Haydn is great, I actually like his music more than Mozart’s, especially as a performer, because of his unpredictability and the slight tinge of the peasant that’s always lurking just under the surface (or just plain out in the open) which makes his music much easier to pull off than the perfect supermodel phrases of Mozart.\u00c2\u00a0 Haydn’s more like the Kate Moss Amy Winehouse<\/span> of the 18th century, I think, to Mozart’s Heidi Klum.<\/p>\n

\"kate_moss\"
\nKate Moss\/Haydn<\/em><\/p>\n

\"heidi-klum-picture-2\"
\nHeidi Klum\/Mozart<\/em><\/p>\n

The Busoni’s cool – I can deal with that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This week’s subscription concert will, with no sarcasm intended, be delightful for the audience.\u00c2\u00a0 What’s not to love?\u00c2\u00a0 The most accessible Stravinsky score ever (Firebird Suite – 1919 version), a Haydn Symphony with a cute nickname (The Hen), a perennial top-ten end-of-year radiothon fave in the Rodrigo Concierto de Aranjuez, and a bit of downer […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":303,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[148,115,2],"tags":[1305,3668],"class_list":["post-1840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appreciations","category-music","category-the-orchestra-world","tag-james-gaffigan","tag-oregon-symphony"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8kC-tG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12704,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2013\/06\/17\/astoria-music-festival-week-one-report\/","url_meta":{"origin":1840,"position":0},"title":"astoria music festival – week one report","author":"Charles Noble","date":"June 17, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"It was a fast-paced and busy first week of the Astoria Music Festival. 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