tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8827040061563065922.post6320584670900722332..comments2024-03-18T14:05:44.909-05:00Comments on The Music Salon: The Music of Messiaen: Part 8, Turangalîla SymphonyBryan Townsendhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09482696991279345516noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8827040061563065922.post-60219528248476613812015-09-22T12:08:45.818-05:002015-09-22T12:08:45.818-05:00Well, then we should do a piece bemoaning the lack...Well, then we should do a piece bemoaning the lack of male harp players!Bryan Townsendhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09482696991279345516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8827040061563065922.post-16564089681130700492015-09-22T11:50:45.426-05:002015-09-22T11:50:45.426-05:00Please, please, do it, write it up for the Guardia...Please, please, do it, write it up for the Guardian. Perhaps a nudge to NL at Slipped Disc? (But alas-- for the joke, anyway-- there are plenty of male ondes Martenot players. Two of the three! ondes M. players in this Radiohead song: [https://youtu.be/chE1_g3GAWw].)<br /><br />There was a writer of crime novels going on about 'liberating' the oppressed <i>plebs</i> by disavowing opera and embracing rap over there yesterday; apparently now that poor Brian Sewell is dead there's opportunity! in the land again. Marc in Eugenehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04331547981498637474noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8827040061563065922.post-13079127003351971762015-09-22T10:10:14.498-05:002015-09-22T10:10:14.498-05:00I only have seen female ondes Martenot performers,...I only have seen female ondes Martenot performers, but perhaps I just haven't seen the right clips. Sounds like a good excuse to write an essay for the Guardian! "Shocking bias against male ondes Martenot players revealed!"<br /><br />I have yet to listen to Einstein on the Beach, though I have heard excerpts.Bryan Townsendhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09482696991279345516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8827040061563065922.post-21892533543293553322015-09-21T14:39:20.471-05:002015-09-21T14:39:20.471-05:00Yes indeed someone was being properly 'creativ...Yes indeed someone was being properly 'creative' with the cameras, gosh.<br /><br />As a percussionist this has to be one of those events you look forward to.<br /><br />Are there any male performers of the ondes Martenot?<br /><br />Ended the day yesterday listening to this, after having listened in the afternoon to Philip Glass's Einstein on the Beach (first time really, all 160 minutes of it)-- as interesting as the Glass is (and I even found one or two parts to be quite lovely or moving), I'd save this and not that from the wreck. Read your post from 2012 on Canadian opera, ahem, which tangentially refers to EOB. Marc in Eugenehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04331547981498637474noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8827040061563065922.post-71703506191744618382015-09-20T07:58:45.418-05:002015-09-20T07:58:45.418-05:00I think this is also true of some other of Messiae...I think this is also true of some other of Messiaen's larger works. How long does it take to really come to grips with the Catalogue d'oiseaux for example? But the thing about Messiaen is, despite the syncretic style, that his music is always appealing. You want to keep listening!Bryan Townsendhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09482696991279345516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8827040061563065922.post-28101785890933709762015-09-19T15:22:50.110-05:002015-09-19T15:22:50.110-05:00Turangalila is one of those masterworks that canno...Turangalila is one of those masterworks that cannot be understood in one listening, or even over several decades. My ears are confused by what seems to be a mixture of styles. Perhaps Messiaen did not intend this - although Turangalila does fall just a few years after the Quartet for the End of Time and a few years before Modes de Valeurs. For me, it's his use of major chords with added sixth. To Messiaen, that might have been a sweet harmony. To me it sounds like big band jazz - so sometimes Turangalila sounds like Tommy Dorsey's cosmic music, or as you say, Gershwin on acid.Ken F.https://www.blogger.com/profile/08296737421194767997noreply@blogger.com