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Author: David Spiegelthal
Date: 2002-12-19 17:56
I was listening to the public radio station in the car this past Sunday, and a live performance of Tschaikovsky's 5th (from a hall in Worcester, Massachusetts) was in progress. The performance was the best I've ever heard, and I was dying to find out who was playing......from the oboe's sound my first guess was the Vienna Philharmonic, but then I heard the clarinet and the sound was much more 'live' and expressive than I've heard from Vienna, so at that point I was stumped. When the piece ended it was announced that it was......The Sao Paolo Symphony Orchestra of Brazil! I had no idea that there were any orchestras of that caliber in South America --- their playing was fantastic, absolutely first-rate in every way. Has anyone else heard from this or other South American orchestras recently?
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Author: Mike
Date: 2002-12-19 19:07
Nope, but the Barcelona Symphony Orchestra is horrid.
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Author: Henry
Date: 2002-12-19 19:20
Yes, and Sao Pauloans speak Portugese, while at last count Barcelonans speak Spanish. Perhaps that explains the difference!
Henry
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Author: anon
Date: 2002-12-19 21:06
Actually, people in Barcelona speak Catalan, which is a cross-language between Spanish and French. Just a little thought for the day.
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Author: dfh
Date: 2002-12-20 02:03
David-
I was in Venezualia 2-3 yrs ago, playing with the american guest orchestra for their version of an All-State week, (only it's all country)There is a 60 Minutes about this by the way. Anyway, these kids were AMAZING. Not only could they play their instruments exceptionally well, many could play the folk music (very wild stuff) on their instuments, or on others. We (the americans) were completely blown away. Really Amazing. My guess why we don't here anything about these outstanding South Americans is that they don't have the money to put out recordings/travel etc. ?
dfh
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Author: David Spiegelthal
Date: 2002-12-23 14:02
To get back to the original topic, I received an email from Graham Golden (of Graham's Music) in which he informed me that many of the Brazilian orchestra musicians are Eastern European expatriates --- this might explain why I thought the oboist sounded Viennese.....
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Author: camyllacarvalho
Date: 2012-05-22 04:55
here I am, 10 yearS later. sao paulo symphony orchestra is the best brazilian orchestra. i heard about that is the best orchestra in latin america..,but i'm not sure about that.
i dont known if the oboist isnt brazilian. that's a lot of fõreign musicians but the clarinetists are from Brazil.
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Author: clarinet60
Date: 2012-05-24 19:18
I happen to live in Worcester, MA and although I unfortunately wasn't at that concert, I have performed in that space, Mechanic's Hall. This hall is so good that many orchestras come from around the world just to record there and it can make any orchestra sound significantly better (I'm not downgrading the group, just saying they will sound their best there). It's any easy space to play in as a clarinetist you don't have to "push" your sound to carry into the hall. I heard the Prague Chamber orchestra there and they were astonishingly good as well!
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Author: Ed Palanker
Date: 2012-05-24 19:44
I believe that's the orchestra that our BSO conductor, Marin Alsop, has recently become the music director as well. Do you know if she was conducting? She recently did Tch. 5 with us. ESP eddiesclarinet.com
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Author: SteveG_CT
Date: 2012-05-24 19:58
Ed Palanker wrote:
> I believe that's the orchestra that our BSO conductor, Marin
> Alsop, has recently become the music director as well. Do you
> know if she was conducting? She recently did Tch. 5 with us.
> ESP eddiesclarinet.com
Probably not if she took the position recently given that Dave's original post in this thread was made a decade ago.
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Author: David Spiegelthal ★2017
Date: 2012-05-25 00:21
Scary how something one wrote a decade ago can re-surface. One must be careful what one writes, eh?
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