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   Bill Dodd on March 1, 2018 at 12:16 am

   I look forward to this!

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   katehorney on March 5, 2018 at 7:41 pm

   Denn alles Fleisch, es ist wie Gras und des Menschen Herrlichkeit wiedes Grases Blumen. Das Gras ist verdorret und die Blumen verwelket” ( Ein deutsches Requiem, Johannes Brahms) Es ist aus. Aus und vorbei ! Ende ! Schluss ! Fertig !

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   Acermendax on March 6, 2018 at 10:21 pm

   I entirely agree with this assessment of the Brahms. One would like to have said there was an exploration of the ambiguities of the score, but given Brahms” wonderful dashes “hip throughout his music, what I heard last night was chaos and muddle. Miasma. The starMs wangis always proficient, but seemed disappointed in the collaboration with her orchestra. She is too young for this music. But let that pass. I found the Prokofiev to be just what I expect: fun, jazzy, rich inside and here and there so poignant. We have to enjoy music and I think that was Prokofiev”s intention here and elsewhere. And then there”s the connection with film scores, including Prokofiev”s own. Finally, no Prokofiev, no John Williams. (especially of “ET). Loud and even raucous is fine. The references to the famous Bernstein-Gould collaboration in which Gould”s tempos were so slow that Bernstein had to confess to believing in Gould”s genius is all that permitted him to go on with public performances of the Brahms with Gould. Last week was a very different Jaap van Zweden, and the future seems promising for his tenure.

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