Love your description of the experience of hearing Feldman’s piece! But the title (which you do have right in the photo caption) is actually ‘Triadic Memories.’
Thank you! Yeah, unfortunately the older I get the more frequent the brain farts become. (Until a couple of minutes before posting, this led off with a reference to “Morton Friedman.”) All fixed now.
You're very welcome! And also I apologize for an omission: the Redwood Symphony program you cite is opposite the great flutist Claire Chase at SFO, with a new tranche of commissions from Density 2036. A terrible choice.
What impressed me the most about Thursday's performance was the audience. No nervous coughing, twittering, or compaining, the silence from the audience showed a deep focus and respect for what was happening on stage. The 300 or so mostly older adults sat for 80 minutes as if hypnotized by the music. There were some Mills students who came late and left early. I was wonderfully surprised.
Love your description of the experience of hearing Feldman’s piece! But the title (which you do have right in the photo caption) is actually ‘Triadic Memories.’
Thank you! Yeah, unfortunately the older I get the more frequent the brain farts become. (Until a couple of minutes before posting, this led off with a reference to “Morton Friedman.”) All fixed now.
You're very welcome! And also I apologize for an omission: the Redwood Symphony program you cite is opposite the great flutist Claire Chase at SFO, with a new tranche of commissions from Density 2036. A terrible choice.
Make that SF Performances, not Opera.
What impressed me the most about Thursday's performance was the audience. No nervous coughing, twittering, or compaining, the silence from the audience showed a deep focus and respect for what was happening on stage. The 300 or so mostly older adults sat for 80 minutes as if hypnotized by the music. There were some Mills students who came late and left early. I was wonderfully surprised.
Feldman is said to have responded to a rehearsal of one of his pieces with the comment “It’s too fuckin’ fast and it’s too fuckin’ loud.”
Indeed. Get it right, because it’s so fuckin’ good.