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Post by driscollmusick on Mar 26, 2019 18:33:12 GMT
Going to be in NYC this weekend and seeing it Saturday at The Met...
One of the greatest opera openings ever:
Used to marvelous effect in the 2004 film, Birth
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Post by Dave Dexter on Mar 26, 2019 18:55:58 GMT
I'm all for drawing out the tension, but after a minute:
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Post by driscollmusick on Mar 26, 2019 19:02:41 GMT
I'm all for drawing out the tension, but after a minute: Wagner plays the long game...
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Post by driscollmusick on Mar 26, 2019 23:20:59 GMT
Another favorite (orchestral) moment
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Post by Bob Porter on Mar 27, 2019 2:21:30 GMT
Ride of the Valkyries
One my three all time favorite classical pieces.
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Post by Mike Hewer on Mar 31, 2019 7:12:53 GMT
I'm all for drawing out the tension, but after a minute: Wagner plays the long game... He does indeed but not as long as that damned Les Miserables. Me and the wife where invited to the early performances of that show in London (I knew the conductor). That old joke about 3 hours later, 15 minutes had elapsed applied. At least you are going to be swept along with Wagner. BTW, I recently found the complete score to Tristan in a charity shop for £5 !!! Very pleased about that as it was in great condition too. The Kidman clip is known as music that is digetic in film terminology....
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Post by driscollmusick on Apr 1, 2019 13:22:45 GMT
Wagner plays the long game... He does indeed but not as long as that damned Les Miserables. Me and the wife where invited to the early performances of that show in London (I knew the conductor). That old joke about 3 hours later, 15 minutes had elapsed applied. At least you are going to be swept along with Wagner. BTW, I recently found the complete score to Tristan in a charity shop for £5 !!! Very pleased about that as it was in great condition too. The Kidman clip is known as music that is digetic in film terminology.... True, but still a deliberate artistic choice, if not Desplat's... I'd be interested to know exactly how it came about--I did see an interview with Desplat where he said he told the director of The King's Speech to leave in the Beethoven 7 temp track, as he couldn't do any better...
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Post by Mike Hewer on Apr 1, 2019 13:52:55 GMT
He does indeed but not as long as that damned Les Miserables. Me and the wife where invited to the early performances of that show in London (I knew the conductor). That old joke about 3 hours later, 15 minutes had elapsed applied. At least you are going to be swept along with Wagner. BTW, I recently found the complete score to Tristan in a charity shop for £5 !!! Very pleased about that as it was in great condition too. The Kidman clip is known as music that is digetic in film terminology.... True, but still a deliberate artistic choice, if not Desplat's... I'd be interested to know exactly how it came about--I did see an interview with Desplat where he said he told the director of The King's Speech to leave in the Beethoven 7 temp track, as he couldn't do any better... Yes a good choice , brilliant actually. Wagner's music is laden with emotional narrative that is conveniently 'borrowed' and Kidman does well with it . If the director had asked someone to score that scene imagine the sort of music that would've been written. Pads or held dissonance perhaps, but with Wagner the whole of humanities psyche is bought to bear with gripping effect. Clever indeed. BTW John, how was the MET...soooo jealous.
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Post by driscollmusick on Apr 1, 2019 14:07:25 GMT
True, but still a deliberate artistic choice, if not Desplat's... I'd be interested to know exactly how it came about--I did see an interview with Desplat where he said he told the director of The King's Speech to leave in the Beethoven 7 temp track, as he couldn't do any better... Yes a good choice , brilliant actually. Wagner's music is laden with emotional narrative that is conveniently 'borrowed' and Kidman does well with it . If the director had asked someone to score that scene imagine the sort of music that would've been written. Pads or held dissonance perhaps, but with Wagner the whole of humanities psyche is bought to bear with gripping effect. Clever indeed. BTW John, how was the MET...soooo jealous. Musically it was very good (a few brass flubs notwithstanding), but I am not a fan of this particular production--I was actually at the performance several years ago when Deborah Voigt fell off "the machine". So I wasn't completely transported but still worthwhile...
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