In Reply to: Ouch - Who is this guy? posted by Chris from Lafayette on March 6, 2011 at 15:14:11:
I've only read this reviewer on one other occasion. The San Diego Union-Tribune was sold a year or so back, and a lot of old staffers were let go. I suspect this guy is working as a freelancer, as are several reporters I have talked to in the political news area. He may not even be getting paid.
I was surprised by his comment about the Schumann Second Symphony. And I didn't hear the final movement of the Brahms Second in the way he described. I sensed from the very beginning that the conductor was going to push the orchesra more forcefully. I saw it as part of his concept to make the climax of the last movement also the climax of the entire symphony. It doesn't make sense to me musically to do it any other way.
I got out an old recording of the VPO(1958). The fabled string sound has been maintained.
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- RE: Ouch - Who is this guy? - Botanico92007 13:22:22 03/09/11 (3)
- That's great you have all those open reels - Chris from Lafayette 15:18:46 03/09/11 (2)
- RE: That's great you have all those open reels - Botanico92007 16:35:55 03/09/11 (1)
- RE: That's great you have all those open reels - Chris from Lafayette 23:51:55 03/09/11 (0)