{"id":818,"date":"2009-05-02T19:36:54","date_gmt":"2009-05-02T19:36:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/2009\/05\/02\/intermission\/"},"modified":"2009-05-05T09:58:09","modified_gmt":"2009-05-05T09:58:09","slug":"intermission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/2009\/05\/02\/intermission\/","title":{"rendered":"Intermission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">Intermission <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">So far so good- Ives really came together. I think it would be even better with a bigger string section- it\u2019s very much a chamber orchestra work, but I think the end could be softer with 16 firsts than it can with 6 or 8. This is a fundamental truth that most people don\u2019t realize- bigger string sections can play softer than smaller ones. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">Schumann was rather rockin&#8217;- what a team Mick Nagle, our principal, assembled. Richard Lewis on 1<sup>st<\/sup> was doing his 7<sup>th<\/sup> Konzertstucke, and it showed- nerves of steel. Don\u2019t tell him, though, but my favorite part is the 4<sup>th<\/sup> horn, too often under-played (except on Gardiner\u2019s recording, which is wonderfully swarthy). Andy Osbourne ripped it (which is good) as did Mick and Andy Feist on 3<sup>rd<\/sup>. Fun piece. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 466px; height: 295px\" height=\"295\" src=\"http:\/\/photos-a.ak.fbcdn.net\/hphotos-ak-snc1\/hs005.snc1\/4160_79495996895_591401895_1874760_6695154_n.jpg\" width=\"466\" \/><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"comment_text\">\n<div class=\"comment_actual_text\" id=\"text_expose_id_4a000cb4dd9115c01395886\"><em>(Schumann Konzertstuck, May 2nd 2009, Surrey Mozart Players, Guildford (L-R) Andy Osborne, Andy Feist, Mick Nagle, Dickie Lewis)<\/em><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"inline_comment comment_error_target\" id=\"feed_comments_error_79495996895_79495996895\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">Talked possibly too long before the Ives- hope it was worth it. Lots to talk about on this program- fascinating connections, parallels and paradoxes. Coming up, a Mozart symphony, the ultimate core chamber orchestra repertoire, which was premiered by a 106 piece orchestra in <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">Paris<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\"> (with Mozart present and delighted!), and a Shostakovich symphony, handiwork one of the biggest and noisiest symphonists who ever lived, premiered on string quartet\u2026.. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">Damn, is it hot on stage here!<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0;float:none;height:100px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/2009\/05\/02\/intermission\/\" send=\"false\" layout=\"box_count\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"true\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Intermission So far so good- Ives really came together. I think it would be even better with a bigger string section- it\u2019s very much a chamber orchestra work, but I think the end could be softer with 16 firsts than it can with 6 or 8. This is a fundamental truth that most people don\u2019t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-opion-life-as-a-performing-musician"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}