tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5607352.post113738471597162590..comments2024-03-18T05:17:45.683-05:00Comments on <a href="http://ionarts.blogspot.com/">Ionarts</a>: Mark Crayton at the PhillipsCharles T. Downeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14978821617871429169noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5607352.post-1138160588482552682006-01-24T22:43:00.000-05:002006-01-24T22:43:00.000-05:00Okay, well I was there too. I met Charles, and su...Okay, well I was there too. I met Charles, and suspected Jens lurking over ... THERE! <BR/><BR/>As I wrote on my blog, I enjoyed the Vaughn Williams, the Finzi (less so, don't know what it is that sometimes irritates me about F.) and, as I said, the Peebles.<BR/><BR/>I would have said that whether or not I knew the composer (well, we are fellow bloggers so we know each other um ... Princess Alpenrosehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02745033267349506217noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5607352.post-1137822911880777082006-01-21T00:55:00.000-05:002006-01-21T00:55:00.000-05:00Thank you for worrying about me, Mr. Downey, but I...Thank you for worrying about me, Mr. Downey, but I don't feel like I need a sympatheic ear. You wrote your review based on your experiences of the pieces, and that's good enough for me.<BR/><BR/>I am, of course, grateful that Lady T likes the pieces enough to want to perform one of them. And I'm grateful to you for even mentioning the pieces at all online, since, as they say, there's really no Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5607352.post-1137738464606019842006-01-20T01:27:00.000-05:002006-01-20T01:27:00.000-05:00Lady T, thank you for the differing point of view,...Lady T, thank you for the differing point of view, which I always appreciate. I'm sure that Gregory Peebles is benefitting from a lot of sympathetic ears, yours included. I don't think that it would honestly help not to criticize when that criticism is sincerely felt.<BR/><BR/>As for the supposedly superior range of choices available to Thomas Hampson, the pieces on that recital I so admired are Charles T. Downeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14978821617871429169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5607352.post-1137738237967090492006-01-20T01:23:00.000-05:002006-01-20T01:23:00.000-05:00"An honest question, then: why on earth did you st..."An honest question, then: why on earth did you stay when you saw that piano on the stage, if your reaction was chagrin and you'd already decided in advance that you weren't going to like anything you heard, no matter how well performed? Or have I misread you?"<BR/><BR/>i don't think the honesty of admitting mixed feelings about a performance beforehand should be mistaken for the inability or jflhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03017753357752263113noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5607352.post-1137738144012929992006-01-20T01:22:00.000-05:002006-01-20T01:22:00.000-05:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.jflhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03017753357752263113noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5607352.post-1137733447057202422006-01-20T00:04:00.000-05:002006-01-20T00:04:00.000-05:00I heard the Peebles cycle in its Chicago area prem...I heard the Peebles cycle in its Chicago area premiere, at the first performance of "Native Tongue," and was well enough pleased that I've obtained the composer's permission to use the first song of the group at an upcoming audition (I'm a contralto). I'm always looking for singable pieces with ear-catching texts and points of view, and I believe that the Peebles should get an open-minded Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5607352.post-1137689588481682452006-01-19T11:53:00.000-05:002006-01-19T11:53:00.000-05:00Thanks for reposting the review. I knew the danger...Thanks for reposting the review. I knew the dangers of using my own poetry entering the project, so your review does not fall on deaf ears. Thank you, too, for understanding how much the songs mean to me. Whatever they may lack in perfection, it seems that something of their Humanity shone through, and that was my hope.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5607352.post-1137651823357500602006-01-19T01:23:00.000-05:002006-01-19T01:23:00.000-05:00yeah. ionarts smack-down! thank you 'mam, may i ha...yeah. ionarts smack-down! <BR/>thank you 'mam, may i have another?<BR/><BR/>a little easy on the performers, though. perhaps not critical enough... too easily impressed. :)<BR/><BR/>i <B>♥</B> finzi, though! what a marvellous, woefully underrated, too-little-known composer!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com