tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8827040061563065922.post7838483608969065235..comments2024-03-29T07:38:17.008-05:00Comments on The Music Salon: Ginastera: BomarzoBryan Townsendhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09482696991279345516noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8827040061563065922.post-86799331269509568682022-09-03T14:41:55.374-05:002022-09-03T14:41:55.374-05:00Thanks! Good to know. Boosey and Hawkes are good t...Thanks! Good to know. Boosey and Hawkes are good that way.Bryan Townsendhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09482696991279345516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8827040061563065922.post-88510930426281356122022-09-03T10:35:41.366-05:002022-09-03T10:35:41.366-05:00The score is available to peruse by B&H at htt...The score is available to peruse by B&H at https://www.boosey.com/cr/perusals/score?id=26174Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8827040061563065922.post-31333672864238922952018-11-11T07:56:40.224-06:002018-11-11T07:56:40.224-06:00I was listening to a couple of movements from his ...I was listening to a couple of movements from his Sonata for guitar the other day. I may be starting to like that piece.Bryan Townsendhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09482696991279345516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8827040061563065922.post-35289688408853823672018-11-11T07:38:23.444-06:002018-11-11T07:38:23.444-06:00Noticed earlier this morning that someone whose wr...Noticed earlier this morning that someone whose writing I read is titular bishop of.... Bomarzo; wonder what that story (that B. was once a real diocese evidently, I mean) is. I don't think I've listened to any Ginastera since you wrote here. Marc in Eugenehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04331547981498637474noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8827040061563065922.post-60155542877862042152017-05-16T13:48:23.544-05:002017-05-16T13:48:23.544-05:00Thanks for the link!d He or she obviously knows th...Thanks for the link!d He or she obviously knows the opera much better than I do.Bryan Townsendhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09482696991279345516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8827040061563065922.post-63220242435860826992017-05-15T10:08:35.520-05:002017-05-15T10:08:35.520-05:00It looks like 'We left at the interval' wa...It looks like 'We left at the interval' was at the same performance you were, Brian; his take, online yesterday, is <a href="http://npw-opera-concerts.blogspot.com/2017/05/ginastera-bomarzo.html" rel="nofollow">here</a>. Your different takes on the light lines-- frames, cages-- is interesting. <br /><br />Marc in Eugenehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04331547981498637474noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8827040061563065922.post-42769465299369366962017-05-10T01:41:13.372-05:002017-05-10T01:41:13.372-05:00Hm, interesting. I don't know Adès' music ...Hm, interesting. I don't know Adès' music very well, something I should rectify. No, Bomarzo is definitely not static and the narrative sets up a forward impetus. As for the problem of stasis in music, I think this is largely a harmonic issue. For a long time the war against tonality meant that the harmonic space was saturated with all 12 tones, whether or not the music was actually "12-tone" or not. This leads to a certain stasis as harmonic motion is based on the concept of moving from one small set of pitches to another, different one. It is also furthered by voice-leading in the upper voices and the movement of the bass. In these post-avant-garde times, many composers have returned to tonality, but informed by the minimal or process music school of Reich and Glass. What this often means is that there is no harmonic motion because you never get off the tonic! Again, stasis, but for a different reason. Wouldn't it be great to figure out a way to really do harmony again?Bryan Townsendhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09482696991279345516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8827040061563065922.post-79345021407538888082017-05-09T22:55:18.543-05:002017-05-09T22:55:18.543-05:00"It was not painful to watch, nor taxing on t..."It was not painful to watch, nor taxing on the ears or brain. It was just static." I lifted that from Norman Lebrecht's post about Thomas Adès's <i>Exterminating Angel</i> that's just done at Covent Garden. However 'grey goo' <i>Bomarzo</i> seemed at times, I didn't find that it lacked a certain forward motion carrying along the nightmare plot: as you suggested, though, edit some of it away, going from 2.5 hours to perhaps 90 minutes, and we'd get along just fine. Marc in Eugenehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04331547981498637474noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8827040061563065922.post-11893103445186096482017-05-08T16:43:40.007-05:002017-05-08T16:43:40.007-05:00I'm glad! If I'm not doing something semi-...I'm glad! If I'm not doing something semi-useful, it just doesn't feel right! I'm not a "vacation" person.Bryan Townsendhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09482696991279345516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8827040061563065922.post-35829903471462363302017-05-08T16:02:16.544-05:002017-05-08T16:02:16.544-05:00Thanks Bryan, for the interesting review, and real...Thanks Bryan, for the interesting review, and really for all your travel writings. I'm enjoying your vacation.Will Wilkinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01997868915978439364noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8827040061563065922.post-24956848790523154672017-05-08T10:08:47.396-05:002017-05-08T10:08:47.396-05:00I get the idea that the original production was mo...I get the idea that the original production was more pornographic than this one, which really wasn't. There was one aria sung by a naked guy and a brief section later on where he and a naked woman wander through the garden, but that was pretty much it.<br /><br />It's not Mozart!Bryan Townsendhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09482696991279345516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8827040061563065922.post-60442945799436449472017-05-08T09:22:43.608-05:002017-05-08T09:22:43.608-05:00I watched Saturday via Opera Platform and ended up...I watched Saturday via Opera Platform and ended up in several places doing other things on the laptop-- which I don't do, generally, when I've set out to listen to music that's new to me. <i>Sonic grey goo</i>, too much of it, anyway. <br /><br />But the spectacle! some operas are better at the theatre, some are musically brilliant-- lovely to listen to-- but the production is disconcerting or incoherent &c. Rolf Gaska reviewed the original production at Washington in <i>Neue Zeitschrift für Musik</i> under the headline: <i>Porno im Belcanto</i>-- but I'd deal with the story if I found the sound world more appealing.<br /><br />Marc in Eugenehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04331547981498637474noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8827040061563065922.post-1940822530733190772017-05-08T06:01:18.746-05:002017-05-08T06:01:18.746-05:00Well, yes. I probably would not have gotten very f...Well, yes. I probably would not have gotten very far into it, just listening. But the production was interesting. Thanks for mentioning that the score is up at Boosey and Hawkes. I saw that, but after I had written the posts!Bryan Townsendhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09482696991279345516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8827040061563065922.post-530054707382281652017-05-08T04:23:56.036-05:002017-05-08T04:23:56.036-05:00One of those operas that it's more enjoyable t...One of those operas that it's more enjoyable to read about than to watch. Gave up on the video recording myself after the umpteenth crash-wallop. You're left feeling just so cold (even more so when one is watching it via a recording, of course). The score is up for online viewing at old Boozy Hawkes, by the way, if you have a (free) account: https://www.boosey.com/cr/perusals/score.asp?id=26174Stevennoreply@blogger.com