tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1672155175393980448.post2761242022701813872..comments2024-01-22T05:10:11.938+11:00Comments on I am a liminal being: PLACES TO GO, PEOPLE TO SEEwandererhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08196036534397389760noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1672155175393980448.post-50505873044912557982013-06-12T23:12:15.937+10:002013-06-12T23:12:15.937+10:00wanderer: So you too have a David-Says list. Ah ye...wanderer: So you too have a David-Says list. Ah yes, mine groweth by the hour! I'm really enjoying your travel reports and will of course love to hear a report on Adams's Sax Concerto. On Robertson, I recently learned the St. Louis Symphony will be recording the Sax Concerto and plans to release a disc of it and City Noir in 2014, I believe with Robertson conducting both. So yes, I agree, the relationship with Adams is likely to be at least well sustained with Robertson coming your way.Susan Scheidhttp://prufrocksdilemma.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1672155175393980448.post-26664850379034947792013-06-11T05:09:44.188+10:002013-06-11T05:09:44.188+10:00David, now that you have drawn my attention to Elf...David, now that you have drawn my attention to Elfriede Jelinek then I will add her to my David-Says list, and ask where shall I start? The Piano Teacher?<br /><br />Susan - August 23 it will be, if we can manage it, and as things stand now we should. And we'd better, I suspect, so I can report first hand. Adams's relationship with Sydney is likely to be well sustained, if not increased, with the coming of David Robertson as chief conductor here.wandererhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08196036534397389760noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1672155175393980448.post-71873547708680577312013-06-07T05:48:09.498+10:002013-06-07T05:48:09.498+10:00wanderer: I hope you are having a marvelous time i...wanderer: I hope you are having a marvelous time in Europe. Just thought I'd pop by to let you know about a world premiere this August in, guess where, Sydney: (World Premiere, August 22-23, 2013, Adams conducting): http://www.sydneysymphony.com/production-pages/2013/concert-season/john-adams-conducts-adams.aspx. John Adams is writing a saxophone concerto for Timothy McAllister, whom I heard play in Adams's City Noir recently. He is phenomenal. Susan Scheidhttp://prufrocksdilemma.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1672155175393980448.post-22539572418866399662013-06-01T21:52:48.535+10:002013-06-01T21:52:48.535+10:00Apologies, wanderer, that wasn't in the least ...Apologies, wanderer, that wasn't in the least meant as a 'why didn't you reference me' sort of comment. Just affirming that I wasn't just going along with what you wrote for the sake of it. All the better if you hadn't seen it. <br /><br />On the subject of subversive Austrians, I've very belatedly discovered Elfriede Jellinek. I didn't think I'd care for her subjects, but because of her extraordinary authorial voice, dissecting every move and motive, there's nothing quite like it.<br /><br />Pauline Collins always surprises me. I'd loved Hannah Gordon, of all people, playing Shirley Valentine on stage; Collins was magnificent in the film. Tom Conti as a Greek, less said the better.Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14506881804082382739noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1672155175393980448.post-35786820472824209432013-06-01T16:02:39.084+10:002013-06-01T16:02:39.084+10:00Mea culpa David. I may well have read you thoughts...Mea culpa David. I may well have read you thoughts on Amour but nonetheless watched it consciously blind to any other input and ignorant of even its ending/beginning. Perhaps that was why I was so very moved as I hinted in my last sentence. Now I will search your comments, always important to me.<br /><br />If Quartet comes your way, do give it the time if only for the performances you mention. It's not bad, just not great, in the scheme of things, and no fault of the players. Yes, Pauline Collins is quite wonderful, and of course one can't take one's eyes of the Dame, or couldn't ever anyway.wandererhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08196036534397389760noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1672155175393980448.post-87084166084985578032013-05-31T20:30:03.235+10:002013-05-31T20:30:03.235+10:00I agree with everything you say about Amour, as yo...I agree with everything you say about Amour, as you may remember, above all the hypersensitive response Haneke makes us have to every noise in the hermetically sealed world of the couple's flat. I suppose I ought to go and see Quartet, or get it out on DVD when the time comes, if only to see Gwyneth and John Tom (and some say Pauline Collins's big scene is worth seeing). But I'm not expecting much.<br /><br />Anyway, bis Dresden...Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14506881804082382739noreply@blogger.com