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  1. Recorded Music and Publications
    I have been loving his live versions of the 2, 5, 7, and 8th recorded and released by WQXR and Carnegie Hall. I just read an article about his performing the 9th there as well but can’t seem to find a recording. Does anyone know if one exists? I have his complete cycle with ORR, but not live.
  2. Off Topic Pub
    Hi, my friend and I are attending for the first time a Classical Music concert in a theatre. How should we behave, what could possibly go wrong if we sit on a balcony? Would Daniel Barenboim yell at us for taking pictures at the end? How loud can a mobile phone be if it sounds from the gods...
  3. Solo & Chamber Music
    Hi all just had to share - no one else to tell as friends and family not into it.... I have just got home from my first experience of live chamber music and I am buzzing..... I was at the front - 2 metres away at the same level, small venue with fabulous acoustics. Great ensemble (i think) and...
  4. Opera
    Unfortunately I had to miss this performance yesterday afternoon to attend a birthday party (which was quite enjoyable) for a 1-year-old girl and a 3-year-old boy, combined with Halloween and Christmas, sort of a PumpkinTurkeyClaus affair. Tannhäuser was the first opera I saw live in New York...
  5. Today's Composers
    Hello, everyone. My apologies for the long post. This forum's description has the tag "get help," so I hope I'm not breaking any rules. I'm looking for a teacher. Where I live, the music schools and music theory teachers are a joke. If ever I ask to be taught the rules (guidelines?) of things...
  6. Voice and Choir
    I practiced over the years and am quite good. But never had vocal training from a professional. I live in Seattle and here they have men's chorus, Seattle symphony. I feel so intimidated. How can I get trained professionally?
  7. Opera
    Opera as an art form is great because it has been around for so long. There are so many operas and so many singers. For as long as there have been recordings there have been opera singers who have recorded them. From Caruso to today so many artist have been recorded live or in studio. And every...
  8. Opera
    How long have you been listening to opera, and how many operas have you seen or listened to? For clarification's sake, by "operas" I mean opera titles, not productions, so if you've seen Carmen 10 times, just count it once. Also, count the operas that make up the Ring Cycle individually. I...
  9. Orchestral Music
    Looking for advice from Mahler lovers in this forum. Does somebody who already owns Karajan's 1980 studio Mahler 9 with the BPO--the one currently available coupled with Christa Ludwig's Kindertotenlieder--have any reason (other than obsessiveness) to make room in his collection for Karajan's...
  10. Opera
    Some live audio feeds this year again. http://www.br.de/radio/br-klassik/themen/bayreuther-festspiele-br-sendungen100.html 25.07. | 15:57 CET Tristan und Isolde 27.07. | 17:57 CET Das Rheingold 31.07. | 17:57 CET Der fliegende Holländer
  11. Non-Classical Music
    I doubt there's anything too surprising out there but let's give a try. It can be studio or live - any genre you want. Try to avoid the absolutely obvious. A couple to get this (likely very short thread) started.
  12. Ballet
    As a very new member, I have been really struck by the number of people who post that they enjoy ballet or ballet scores, but have never actually seen a live on-stage performance. Why is that? Is it that no live performances ever take place in the region where they live? Is it that they fear...
  13. Opera
    The Opera Platform is a new online thingy that is going to be streaming live opera from participating European houses - for free, supposedly worldwide access. A promotional effort by Opera Europa. They are starting La Traviata from Madrid in about 15 minutes (19:05 CET)...
  14. Off Topic Pub
    Two of my favorites. The first is well-known: A man, a plan, a canal: Panama! The other I like for its obscure meaning: Live dirt up a side track carted is a putrid evil. Anybody else?
  15. Off Topic Pub
    This article embodies one of the concepts I would like to live my life by: minimal clutter. Any of you the same? http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/may/01/do-something-decluttering
  16. Classical Music Discussion
    What do you like to see? Do you go to concerts often? Do you prefer to stay at home and listen to recordings or watch videos of performances? Personally I love to see music performed live. There is something about the real presence of the music and it's existence in the moment which fascinates...
  17. Opera
    Hello, Anyone here knows which version of "Ah! non credea mirarti" (Bellini La Sonnambula) is used during the manta ray segment on the 1991 Luc Besson sea documentary Atlantis? The end credits says Antonino Votto, Orchestre du Theatre de La Scala de Milan. It is a live recording and she sing...
  18. Music Theory
    Just got home from a medium-length drive full of Gruppen and Carre... ...And again, I find myself wondering about this contemporary trend of orchestral groups. I understand the spatial aspect of a live performance, but given what I've read about Carter's "Symphony Of Three Orchestras", I...
  19. Non-Classical Music
    While there are quite a few rock musicians who can play fine solos in a short song who do you think are the best improvisers rock music has produced? For me there are a lot of rock players who like to jam live but when you come down to it most of the solos are a series of flashy tricks strung...
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