tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8957911.post2043353579097686595..comments2024-03-28T12:59:05.739-07:00Comments on Iron Tongue of Midnight: Albums from the PastLisa Hirschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14014924958428072675noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8957911.post-18948811471616810542009-02-27T13:29:00.000-08:002009-02-27T13:29:00.000-08:00I wonder if we have a copy of In The Court around ...I wonder if we have a copy of In The Court around the house.<BR/><BR/>Ah, well, I am saving MY pennies for London.Lisa Hirschhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14014924958428072675noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8957911.post-19012315463380885642009-02-27T11:41:00.000-08:002009-02-27T11:41:00.000-08:00I realized after I hit enter that sandwiched betwe...I realized after I hit enter that sandwiched between #4 & 5 would be King Crimson: <B>In The Court of the Crimson King</B>, which made me realize that rock music could be almost entirely stripped of blues and r&b influences and still kick ass.<BR/><BR/>I'd love to go to London for <I>L'amour de Loin</I> but I'm saving up for Phish's west coast tour in August. I'm gonna do the tour rat thing and I'm gonna need every penny.Henry Hollandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15871451112170286316noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8957911.post-22231628404815648982009-02-27T07:43:00.000-08:002009-02-27T07:43:00.000-08:00Um, wow.So are you going to London for the Saariah...Um, wow.<BR/><BR/>So are you going to London for the Saariaho? Believe me, I've been thinking about it.Lisa Hirschhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14014924958428072675noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8957911.post-42140844311698656062009-02-26T14:05:00.000-08:002009-02-26T14:05:00.000-08:00Love this topic. 1. The Monkees: More of the Monke...Love this topic. <BR/><BR/>1. The Monkees: <B>More of the Monkees</B><BR/>Hey! I was 7, they were my "gateway drug" to pop music, as it were<BR/><BR/>2. Cream: <B>Wheels of Fire</B><BR/>God, a bass player and drummer who didn't play the same repetitive stuff for the whole song! 15 minute songs!<BR/><BR/>3. Jimi Hendrix Experience: <B>Are You Experienced?</B><BR/>Not necessarily stoned, but beautiful<BR/><BR/>4. Emerson, Lake & Palmer: <B>Brain Salad Surgery</B><BR/>My intro to prog rock, what an incredible album; I still can't believe the sheer *balls* it took to do <I>Toccata</I>. <BR/><BR/>5. Mahavishnu Orchestra: <B>Birds of Fire</B><BR/>Wow, how could five guys play that fast and together in 18/8?<BR/><BR/>6. Bartok: <B>Concerto for Orchestra</B> (Boulez, NY Phil)<BR/>I was hooked in the first 2 minutes, my intro to 20th century music<BR/><BR/>7. Miles Davis: <B>In A Silent Way</B><BR/>Still my favorite late night listen and great fun to play along with (modes, baby!)<BR/><BR/>8. Birtwistle: <B>Earth Dances</B><BR/>A headphone favorite, it took me forever to untangle it, but it sounds like pop music to me now<BR/><BR/>9. Britten: <B>A Midsummer's Night Dream</B><BR/>The first opera I went to, on a whim because I'd read Britten was gay. Opera queendom, here I come!<BR/><BR/>10. Reimann: <B>Lear</B><BR/>One of my most treasured tapes is a recording of the SFO production in 1985, with Thomas Stewart; one of the few truly great Shakespeare > opera pieces, the total antithesis of the Gockley aesthetic<BR/><BR/>11. Schreker: <B>Der Ferne Klang</B><BR/>My introduction to this incredible composer, one of my very favorite operas<BR/><BR/>12. Boulez: <B>Repons</B><BR/>45 minutes of sheer gorgeousness, would love to hear it live someday<BR/><BR/>13. Birtwistle: <B>The Second Mrs. Kong</B><BR/>An incredible libretto by the novelist Russell Hoban in which King Kong and Pearl, Vermeer's <I>Girl with a Pearl Earring</I>, fall in love; wonderful music, would love to hear it live someday<BR/><BR/>14. Saariaho: <B>L'amour de Loin</B><BR/>2 hours of sheer gorgeousness, I'd love etc. etc.<BR/><BR/>15. Pintscher: <B>5 Orchestral Pieces</B><BR/>It was apparently greeted with total silence in Cleveland, but I love this piece by this extremely talented young German composer, at turns violent and sereneHenry Hollandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15871451112170286316noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8957911.post-67784455671358777332009-02-26T07:19:00.000-08:002009-02-26T07:19:00.000-08:00True of many of mine as well.True of many of mine as well.Lisa Hirschhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14014924958428072675noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8957911.post-75177107357736557532009-02-26T00:21:00.000-08:002009-02-26T00:21:00.000-08:00Oh, why not...1. Stern's Brahms Violin Concerto2. ...Oh, why not...<BR/><BR/>1. Stern's Brahms Violin Concerto<BR/><BR/>2. Samson Francois' Ravel Piano Concertos<BR/><BR/>3. Bernstein's Rite of Spring<BR/><BR/>4. Samson Francois' Prokofiev Concertos 3 and 5<BR/><BR/>5. Stravinsky Piano Concerto with Lipkin and Bernstein (and the companion Pulcinella Suite was life-changing in its own way, too)<BR/><BR/>6. Mothers of Invention "Freak Out!"<BR/><BR/>7. Varese's Arcana and Martin's Concerto for 7 Winds etc. by Martinon and the Chicago band<BR/><BR/>8. Miles Davis Bitches Brew<BR/><BR/>9. Alkan Concerto for Solo Piano played by Ogden<BR/><BR/>10. Stern, Ormandy in the Prokofiev violin concertos<BR/><BR/>11. Jon Hassel - city: works of fiction<BR/><BR/>12. Szymanowski's 3rd piano sonata played by Daniel Graham<BR/><BR/>13. Vincent and Dorothea Persichetti playing his Concerto for Piano 4-hands<BR/><BR/>14. Patti Smith - Horses<BR/><BR/>15. Gould's first Goldbergs<BR/><BR/>My god, with the exception of the Hassel, those were all LPs!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8957911.post-3239835614979845062009-02-25T22:42:00.000-08:002009-02-25T22:42:00.000-08:00yes...great stuff! Big seconds to the Brahms...tha...yes...great stuff! Big seconds to the Brahms...that changed my feelings about wind instruments forever.Alexhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15748408812275965064noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8957911.post-38961936669426549762009-02-25T22:08:00.000-08:002009-02-25T22:08:00.000-08:00OH MAN.OH MAN.Lisa Hirschhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14014924958428072675noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8957911.post-61040072710518160142009-02-25T22:05:00.000-08:002009-02-25T22:05:00.000-08:00I met LaMonte Young once or twice in Berkeley arou...I met LaMonte Young once or twice in Berkeley around 1959, where I knew him as a jazz alto player who also had some connection with the UCB Music Department. The hippest thing anyone ever said to me was his answer when I asked what he thought of Ornette, who had all us beboppers scared we were going to have to learn a new way to play. "Man," said LaMonte, "why does he play all that old-fashioned shit?"Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8957911.post-4725769916773994062009-02-25T21:22:00.000-08:002009-02-25T21:22:00.000-08:00Fifteen is too many. I came up with nine:1. Jacque...Fifteen is too many. I came up with nine:<BR/><BR/>1. Jacqueline duPre and Daniel Barenboim, Franck A major Sonata<BR/>2. Miles Davis, Kind of Blue<BR/>3. Mozart C minor Mass (an old LP version with Christa Ludwig)<BR/>4. Rachmaninov 2nd Symphony (version unknown, heard on a car radio when I was 14 and realizing that Romantic music really meant something)<BR/>5. Bartok Concerto for Orchestra (Reiner, Chicago Symphony)<BR/>6. Gould's 1955 Goldberg Variations--wait, you can do that?<BR/>7. Ornette Coleman, The Shape of Jazz to Come--wait, you can do that?<BR/>8. Berlioz "Nuits d'Été," Eleanor Steber<BR/>9. Brahms Clarinet Quintet--I think Reginald Kell/Fine Arts QuartetAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8957911.post-58271512851482960612009-02-25T19:44:00.001-08:002009-02-25T19:44:00.001-08:00Argh, let's make that a clickable link: My Robert ...Argh, let's make that a clickable link: <A HREF="http://irontongue.blogspot.com/2005/02/as-promised.html" REL="nofollow">My Robert Shaw posting</A>.Lisa Hirschhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14014924958428072675noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8957911.post-24850830708659417852009-02-25T19:44:00.000-08:002009-02-25T19:44:00.000-08:00Have you seen my Robert Shaw posting, about the Mi...Have you seen my Robert Shaw posting, about the Missa?<BR/><BR/>http://irontongue.blogspot.com/2005/02/as-promised.htmlLisa Hirschhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14014924958428072675noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8957911.post-61931040709260256132009-02-25T19:42:00.000-08:002009-02-25T19:42:00.000-08:00Good ones! I knew that would be entertaining...tha...Good ones! I knew that would be entertaining...that Missa Solemnis period must have been intense. Tx for playing!Alexhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15748408812275965064noreply@blogger.com