By the way, if anyone wants to hear a HIGH C...

There are nine of them in a row in the Daughter of the Regiment

The first video must be by Pavarotti:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjqZB6hq ... re=related

Listen to all six minutes but the "C" section starts at 5:30 with a lilting waltz and then at 6:30 he starts hitting pairs of "C" in a row to the last long high C.

Here's a more action packed tenor Juan Diego Florez who has an entirely different tenor than Pavarotti.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aS6M8j3pvQ

5:02 is the start of the waltz

And here's Lawrence Brownlee with an entirely different visual appearance and interpretation.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXCwukCd ... re=related

Since this is "in concert" they ripped out the chorus parts and it's shorter.

gareth19 (imported) wrote: Tue May 31, 2011 10:38 pm No; Mozart conceived of music that could reach a top F; what has Lady Gaga got? A range of three notes?

I threw her in as a bombshell...

We might find it hard to believe but in Mozart's day the common people actually walked the streets humming his melodies much the way we drive the streets in cars thumping out GAGA.

(not me, my car thumps to grand opera and Broadway show tunes)

Dave (imported) wrote: Wed Jun 01, 2011 4:45 am I threw her in as a bombshell...

(not me, my car thumps to grand opera and Broadway show tunes)

Oh next Dave start a thread on show tunes. Of course this one can continue and should. Dave do you have any favorites among classical composers writing today? If I were home I would list some of mine. I like to have the cd's in front of me so I do not misspell the composers name or the name of the work.

Dave (imported) wrote: Mon May 23, 2011 9:32 pm The Pittsburgh Symphony played Mahler's 5th today (Manfred Honeck Conducting) and it was magnificent. The first half of the concert was Mahler's "Kindertotenlieder" and it was sublimely beautiful.

*sigh* last time I was there I heard Beethoven's 9th, and I think something by Shubert, but its been years. I don't think any of my friends are into the symphony.

Happy I got to see Paul McCartney open the Consol Energy Center last year, and then Roger Water's The Wall show at least.

Glad you enjoyed yourself

Batman (imported) wrote: Wed Jun 01, 2011 4:10 pm *sigh* last time I was there I heard Beethoven's 9th, and I think something by Shubert, but its been years. I don't think any of my friends are into the symphony.

Happy I got to see Paul McCartney open the Consol Energy Center last year, and then Roger Water's The Wall show at least.

Glad you enjoyed yourself

Consider that when the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, that Christmas, Leonard Bernstein conducted the Beethoven 9th in Berlin and changed the word "Freude: to "Freiheit" (that's "joy" to "freedom") in the choral movement. Considering that the 9th Symphony was 165 years old, I think it held up well.

I have that CD, and I used to have it on a video tape. I can never get enough of the 9th symphony. I have at least 4 or 5 different versions including DVD Audio in 5.1 surround sound (all 9 symphonies).

tugon (imported) wrote: Wed Jun 01, 2011 5:25 am Oh next Dave start a thread on show tunes. Of course this one can continue and should. Dave do you have any favorites among classical composers writing today? If I were home I would list some of mine. I like to have the cd's in front of me so I do not misspell the composers name or the name of the work.

Actually, you can discuss them here if you want. I won't get bent out of shape about it.

Batman says he saw the Paul McCartney show that was one of the opening concerts at the new hockey Arena (Consol Energy Center). I didn't get tickets because of silly reasons.

I can bookend that by saying I saw the first national tour of JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR by his countryman Andrew Lloyd Webber in the Civic Arena back in 1971.

I also saw Duke Ellington in the Civic Arena and South Pacific there too (although not in the same concert).

I heard the Count Basie band after Basie's death in Skibo Hall at Carnegie Mellon.

I also paid $0.50 to see a relatively unknown group called "Chicago Transit Authority" Six months later they hit it big as "Chicago" ...

And while in college, I attended a "tryout" and "off-broadway" test so to speak of a new and rather experimental musical that hit Broadway as GODSPELL and the audience got to discuss the show with the budding author and composer.

Don't pass up culture. You never know when you will look back and be glad you didn't pass it by.

Here are some modern composers that I enjoy or find interesting.

Alfred Schnittke (b. 1934) "The Complete String Quartets" performed by the Kronos Quartet

Nicholas Maw (b. 1935) "Violin Concerto" performed by Joshua Bell and the London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conducted by Sir Roger Norrington

Richard Danielpour (b. 1956) "Concerto for Cello and Orchestra", Leon Kirchner (b. 1919) "Music for Cello and Orchestra", Christopher Rouse (b.1949) "Violincello Concerto" Yo Yo Ma Premiers with the Philidelphia Orchsetra and conducted by David Zinman

Osvaldo Golijou (b. 1960) "Oceana"

If we're going to get THAT far off topic................

Have you boys been listening to the "13 Days When Music Changed Forever", a series of one-hour broadcasts from the SF Symphony that's been airing recently?

The most recent is:

Program 09: May 29, 1913: Premiere of "The Rite of Spring"

The first was:

Program 01: February 24, 1607 - The Premiere of Monteverdi's L'Orfeo

And everything inbetween's been pretty swell. (okay, "Program 07:

May 6, 1889: The Birth of 'World' Music" was not my favorite.)

It'll go onto your "serious music queen" iPod playlist, I'd bet.

Dave (imported) wrote: Wed Jun 01, 2011 4:43 am Here's a more action packed tenor Juan Diego Florez who has an entirely different tenor than Pavarotti.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aS6M8j3pvQ

5:02 is the start of the waltz.

I think Florez was doing encores of that aria, for a while, with some sort of signal to the conductor as to whether he was willing to go through the thing again. He would get clearance from the house (some have a policy of "No encore" that was waved for this specific aria) first, a professional necessity.

I don't think Florez is human. Not with that voice. (Exhibit B: And he makes it look easy.)