Thank you everybody for your comments. I guess it clears a lot of queries up about the man. I now have a more realistic picture of how this man was. That he...
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heungmao
May 1, 2008 4:57 pm
Dear David, John, Gert, and Al, Thanks for your responses. I've learned so much from you guys! It's great to have friends like you out there... Sincerely, ...
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Gert Van Gelder
gertvangelder
May 1, 2008 6:08 pm
dear mister Li, that's what the Club is for. we even know what beer bottle to open to drink to that ... ;-) :-) Gert ... From: heungmao To:...
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Neil Schore
neschore
May 1, 2008 10:38 pm
I remember my first recording with split 1st and 2nd violins--Guido Cantelli conducting the Beethoven 7th Symphony, dating to the late 1950s. I still have the...
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Siggy
batsaboutbuses
May 1, 2008 11:07 pm
An interesting question and debate! I got me thinking - what is the normal seating arrangement for a smaller ensemble than an orchestra, for example a string...
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Siggy
batsaboutbuses
May 1, 2008 11:14 pm
David, Possibly you may be right. No matter, Bruckner had an amazing mind and is to create such fine musical visions would indicate he was far from "normal"....
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Siggy
batsaboutbuses
May 1, 2008 11:31 pm
Thankyou Gert. I feel it is long overdue that there was proper analysis of Bruckner. For too long there are far too many stories of the man and his supposed...
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david2coleman
May 2, 2008 6:00 am
... address ... interprets ... Hi It's usually, from left to right - 1st Fiddle, 2nd Fiddle, 1st Viola, 2nd Viola, Cello. As for the Bruckner, I'm not sure as...
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jklasins2002
May 2, 2008 7:38 pm
Keeping us in suspense for Part 4 huh Brendan! Looking foward to this culmination of such a labor of love on your part. Thanks, Joshua ... ...
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Brendan O'Connell
rumbles32001
May 2, 2008 7:53 pm
No & Yes I was ill for a few days and was able to plan out the very end of the series which looks like being extended. For as you might imagine it is not easy ...
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jklasins2002
May 2, 2008 10:09 pm
Dear David, Thanks for stimulating such a worthy discourse, which has branched off into many facets concerning this man whom we all have devoted much time to. ...
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Brendan O'Connell
rumbles32001
May 2, 2008 11:43 pm
Hello Everyone The series will be extended. As you might imagine it is not easy realising Bruckners dramatic shapes but as you can tell I have become like Gert...
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akemp2006
May 3, 2008 1:27 am
Hi David, I heard the Quintet live a couple years ago, and I'm embarrassed to say I had to concentrate to remember the seating arrangement. Even then I wasn't...
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Gert Van Gelder
gertvangelder
May 3, 2008 6:44 am
the music of Anton Bruckner's Finale is a well thaught out process by the composer, and is by no means a disabled product of an ill man, even when it is music...
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david2coleman
May 3, 2008 6:50 am
Wow! Josh. Thanks for that comprehensive statement. Couldn't have put it better myself..;o)))) Regds David......
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david2coleman
May 3, 2008 9:06 am
May I just say something about the finale to the Ninth Symphony? I am not a great fan of the attempted completions by the various parties involved. Not because...
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Gert Van Gelder
gertvangelder
May 3, 2008 10:02 am
hello David, that is typical for this debate. we have pro and contra. I have no problem with that, well honoustly, a bit yes, because I think people should...
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Brendan O'Connell
rumbles32001
May 3, 2008 4:57 pm
Gert I'm not are great one for lists but one occured to me in response to what you have written 1. Bruckner was not ill intellecually if he was he could not...
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akemp2006
May 3, 2008 5:17 pm
Hi David, By listening to the Ninth as a three movement work, you are keeping the lid firmly closed on the Pandora's box of musical possibilities that is the...
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david2coleman
May 3, 2008 9:38 pm
Hear what your'e saying Al. But it's another man's, admittedly gifted thoughts we are interpreting. I take my hat off to these brilliant scholars who can...
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Brendan O'Connell
rumbles32001
May 3, 2008 9:55 pm
Gert I'm not a great one for lists, but one occurred to me in response to what you have written: 1. Bruckner was not ill intellectually if he was he could not...
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akemp2006
May 4, 2008 1:50 am
You are absolutely right, David! I am intensely aware that the coda is not Bruckner's work. It drives me crazy, sometimes. I listen to the SC/SPCM and Carragan...
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Brendan O'Connell
rumbles32001
May 4, 2008 6:03 am
This Finale Is Not An End What was it that Nielsen called his fourth Symphony - Inextinguishable. What he tried to do was present a great humanly liberating...
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david2coleman
May 4, 2008 6:21 am
... keep us in suspense. Maybe our prayers will be answered oneday and that illusive score will come to light!!......
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Brendan O'Connell
rumbles32001
May 4, 2008 4:17 pm
I was going to add some more comments but I think I'll keep you waiting for those too.... Will try my best to keep you in suspense the longest Dave... B ... ...
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Gert Van Gelder
gertvangelder
May 4, 2008 10:38 pm
dear Brendan, that is indeed so. the Finale music of Anton Bruckner is of such a high quality that he could not have been intellectually ill while composing...
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david2coleman
May 5, 2008 6:04 am
Oh Go on???!!! ;-))...
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John Soutter
soutteruk
May 5, 2008 6:15 am
Dear All Where was it that I read that Bruckner when composing this final movement of the Ninth did indeed have moments of apparent senility that however...
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david2coleman
May 5, 2008 9:13 am
That might be the case John. But after hearing what Bruckner's own sketches are of the finale, we are introduced to as fresh and spontaneous music as he'd ever...
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Brendan O'Connell
rumbles32001
May 5, 2008 10:08 am
I had a vision of what the group means despite what I would want it to mean. Sometimes it's a means to simply give a nod and agree soberly with someone, ...
