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In the Thread: Expectations in the concert hall?
Post Subject: Freshness? Enthusiasm? Inspiration? Risk?Posted by Paul S on: 9/8/2019
Let's face it, the best paid orchestras too often avoid mistakes, and they don't really give themselves over to the Music ensemble often enough, IMO. Also it seems there are not so many conductors at any time who can really get the most from an orchestra, and - perhaps - some of the "most professional" orchestras are most capable of stonewalling conductors. Is this too much to say? Some years ago I recalled here at GSC a performance by a local opera company of Orpheus In The Underworld that had enough effort and blind faith to keep me very involved, even singing along, as I drove home from a family gathering. And for something substantially more complicated, I also reported here on a volunteer chamber orchestra and choir from DDR performing a "small scale" version of Brahms' Ein deutsches Requiem. While not the best version I've ever heard it's among the best, and largely, I think, because they stuck their necks out; they "went for it".
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