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Author: Sylvain
Date: 2009-01-02 00:19
Impressive display of musicianship and misogynism. I guess one woman on first stand violin for this concert, is one hell of a progressive move.
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Sylvain Bouix <sbouix@gmail.com>
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Author: Ryder
Date: 2009-01-02 01:26
I'm watching it now on my PBS station. It started at 8pm.
By chance do you remember if Till Eulenspiegel was played? I can't get enough of that opening horn solo.
I counted three, yes three women in the orchestra...seriously progressive move.
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San Antonio, Texas
"We pracice the way we want to perform, that way when we perform it's just like we practiced"
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Author: Curinfinwe
Date: 2009-01-02 02:51
Oh, I saw that on PBS. I liked all the clarinet in the first song, the overture to The Gypsy Baron I think it was?
and yes, I also counted three women. When did they start letting us in again?
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Author: Sylvain
Date: 2009-01-02 03:13
The first full female member was hired in 1997 I believe. She is a harp player.
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Author: Ryder
Date: 2009-01-02 03:36
Their (not all of them of course) opinions on gender equality in the orchestra are unfortunate.
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Ryder Naymik
San Antonio, Texas
"We pracice the way we want to perform, that way when we perform it's just like we practiced"
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Author: Ryder
Date: 2009-01-02 05:59
ok never mind...I did my research now...R. Strauss not J. Strauss...ok. I just saw Strauss and my mind went straight to Till.
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Ryder Naymik
San Antonio, Texas
"We pracice the way we want to perform, that way when we perform it's just like we practiced"
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Author: Chris P
Date: 2009-01-02 10:26
"I just saw Strauss and my mind went straight to Till."
Imagine how disappointed I was when I first assumed that! I must have been around 16 or so and had never watched these concerts before (expecting Sinfonia Domestica, etc.), and I automatically assumed it was Richard Strauss. D'OH!
I tend to avoid those Strausses as much as Gilbert&Sullivan, von Suppe, Lehar and all those other operetta-types - not my thing at all. I remember doing an afternoon concert with a small orchestra and the programme was all G&S - then I found out it was either that or J.Strauss (and they went with G&S), so I think it was probably the slightly lesser of two evils. Having said that, I have done concerts that were all J.Strauss and couldn't wait to go home.
Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010
The opinions I express are my own.
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Author: LarryBocaner ★2017
Date: 2009-01-02 13:56
Chris P., you are entitled to your opinion about the worth of the Strauss family and their Viennese cohorts. All I can say is that my appreciation of this musical genre is 180 degrees away from yours. Sure, I've played performances of Strauss waltzes that were "phoned in", but also one of the high spots of my career was playing in a "Viennese Night" concert conducted by Willy Boskowsky, concertmaster of the VPO, with Elizabeth Schwartzkopf as soloist. When this music is performed lovingly and meticulously by artists who appreciate its true worth, it can be rewarding and uplifting.
I thought the performances last night by Barenboim and the VPO were marvelous -- I would have given anything to have been on that stage again! And I'm happy to see that the old non-adjustable ugly wooden music stands have finally been replaced by "modern?" steel ones -- try playing a low C bass clarinet with a stand that is only waist high!
Remember that when Johannes Brahms was asked by J. Strauss's widow to autograph her fan, he jotted down a few bars of the Blue Danube and appended: "Unfortunately, not by your humble servant, Brahms!"
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Author: Don Berger
Date: 2009-01-02 14:26
Well said by all, especially by Larry, I heard the program on NPR FM in the afternoon while watching feetball on muted TV, and found it on PBS in the evening, much preferring it to unexciting f-b. I thot Barenbohm's "semi-conducting" was great, wasn't much conducting via the C M? The Farewell Symp and the Rackovsky [sp?] [[my cell-phone ringer] were great musical humor. Don
Thanx, Mark, Don
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Author: Kevin
Date: 2009-01-03 17:04
The Farewell symphony has got to go down as one of the greatest moments in recent Vienna New Year's concerts history.
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Author: Ebclarinet1
Date: 2009-01-04 20:10
We did the Farewell Symphony last season here and I wish that I had seen the way Vienna did it before doing it here. They hammed it up quite a bit. THink this would've helped my exit. I was way too milktoast.
It is a fun piece and I remember the audience gasping "oh my God he's leaving". I played second oboe in that one and got to have a few solos after the first said "farewell".
Eefer guy
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