tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9458752.post8925697266280288094..comments2023-10-26T08:19:23.900-04:00Comments on an unamplified voice: What was that?JSUhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02477558636942883735noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9458752.post-85585607060958335342008-10-07T23:38:00.000-04:002008-10-07T23:38:00.000-04:00"Anyone who's timing the silences is "so not into ...<I>"Anyone who's timing the silences is "so not into it""</I><BR/><BR/>Indeed, but enough people doing this spoils the event for everyone else as well. (Not just from having neighbors whispering throughout about how he's in big trouble -- though they were -- but the break of rapport between audience and stage.)<BR/><BR/>I don't recall the pauses being as noticeable last time, but perhaps I've just forgotten. In any case, there was not the widespread perception of Levine's fragile health then, either, and so there wasn't the same disruption.JSUhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02477558636942883735noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9458752.post-89091778896348586222008-10-07T20:31:00.000-04:002008-10-07T20:31:00.000-04:00Yes, the preface to the score says: "the composer ...Yes, the preface to the score says: "the composer requires <I>a pause of about a minute between each section</I>". Somehow I thought everyone knew this -- the piece has been around for 45 years now -- and it would never have occured to me that it needed to be explained in the program notes! Maybe they could explain the G.P.'s in the Parsifal prelude next time, too. Anyone who's timing the silences is "so not into it" and bound to spoil the experience for himself.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9458752.post-11756818527293181102008-10-07T17:53:00.000-04:002008-10-07T17:53:00.000-04:00Speaking with a brass player afterward, apparently...Speaking with a brass player afterward, apparently the extreme pauses are included as written instructions in the score. (It might have been helpful to make some kind of reference to that in the program notes.) <BR/><BR/>I thought it made for an amazing experience, but obviously not everyone felt the same. On Pete Matthews' <I>Feast of Music</I>, he describes the guy next to him pulling out his iPhone to check messages.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com