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Paul McCreesh is doing a performance of Haydn's Creation near me in March. Think it'd be worth going to? He's one of the better HIP guys isn't he? His Handel seems ok but don't know how well that translates into doing Haydn if it does at all.
Asher King
Probably my favourite moment in all Wagner's works:
Rienzi is laden with all the pompous forms then expected from opera, but which today people wrongly assume are the result of personal choice. This is why Wagner hated it and so many people today don't understand why he hated it.
Jackson Gray
is arvo part good can't be bothered to listen rn
Brody Carter
All minimalism is bad.
Connor King
>The only stimulating incident occurred on the occasion of the seventh concert, which was the evening chosen by the Queen for her annual visit to these functions. She expressed a wish through her husband, Prince Albert, to hear the Tannhauser Overture. The presence of the court certainly lent a pleasing air of ceremony to the evening, and I had, too, the pleasure of a fairly animated conversation with Queen Victoria and her Consort in response to their command. The question arose of putting my operas on the stage, and Prince Albert objected that Italian singers would never be able to interpret my music. I was amused when the Queen met this objection by saying that, after all, a great many Italian singers were really Germans. All this made a good impression and, it was obvious, served as a demonstration in my favour, without, however, influencing the real situation to any appreciable extent. The leading papers still announced, as before, that every concert I conducted was a fiasco.