tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5607352.post116174966412822379..comments2024-03-25T16:51:04.370-05:00Comments on <a href="http://ionarts.blogspot.com/">Ionarts</a>: AinadamarCharles T. Downeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14978821617871429169noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5607352.post-36565331606979019352009-05-15T21:11:00.000-05:002009-05-15T21:11:00.000-05:00As Director of the Indiana Univertsity Latin Ameri...As Director of the Indiana Univertsity Latin American Music Center I am sorry to have found this discussion so late! But it is still fascinating and enlightening. I conducted the collegiate premiere of Ainadamar in October 2007, more like a passion-play, with minimal staging in front of the orchestra, and supertitles. It works very well in this manner, as it takes away the expectation to show Carmen-Helena Téllezhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00251608265760720902noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5607352.post-77788010409501572182008-03-25T10:31:00.000-05:002008-03-25T10:31:00.000-05:00I saw AINADAMAR at Tanglewood, along with the open...I saw AINADAMAR at Tanglewood, along with the opener Robert Zuidam's Rage d'Amours. While not a perfect piece, and certainly sketchy at times, it was hardly a disaster. In fact, it was a thrilling evening.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5607352.post-10124672992727481232007-07-18T19:45:00.000-05:002007-07-18T19:45:00.000-05:00"Ainadamar" is being performed in Boulder, Colorad..."Ainadamar" is being performed in Boulder, Colorado, by the amazing Colorado Music Festival Orchestra, conducted by the spectacular Michael Christie, on July 19th and 20th, 2007. (No, I am not on the payroll.)<BR/>There will be "minimal" staging -- singers move about a little, in front of the orchestra.<BR/><BR/>There is a lot of "sound design" going on -- not only the taped sounds of fountain, Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5607352.post-1162331074131278542006-10-31T16:44:00.000-05:002006-10-31T16:44:00.000-05:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.jflhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03017753357752263113noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5607352.post-1162331166428719162006-10-31T16:46:00.000-05:002006-10-31T16:46:00.000-05:00Indeed, historians will tell you that the notion o...<I>Indeed, historians will tell you that the notion of a strict boundary between "classical" and "popular" music is a modern invention, dating from the bourgeois nineteenth century, anachronistic to the time of Monteverdi or Mozart.</I><BR/><BR/>Taking it from Alex Ross is good enough to convince me. But I think since the distinction (although perhaps not *as* strict as some would like to see it)jflhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03017753357752263113noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5607352.post-1162315891397151592006-10-31T12:31:00.000-05:002006-10-31T12:31:00.000-05:00Alex, thanks for all of the information, especiall...Alex, thanks for all of the information, especially about the two scores. It is good to be reminded that the last person we should trust, in assessing music, is the composer himself. I could believe that the "failure" of the Tanglewood version was exaggerated, perhaps to get people to listen to the revision as a "new work."<BR/><BR/>I am glad to have the text from Swed's actual review, as I am Charles T. Downeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14978821617871429169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5607352.post-1162311181897177692006-10-31T11:13:00.000-05:002006-10-31T11:13:00.000-05:00Dear Alex, I am not sure if the reaction by musico...Dear Alex, <BR/><BR/>I am not sure if the reaction by musicologists (or Charles', specifically) to Golijov's music is a reaction against a perceived threat... the threat being the advent of 'impurity in "classical" music' ??<BR/><BR/>His music can be liked or not and can be categorized in different ways. "Crossover" is one such categorization. It will be resented or disagreed with by those who jflhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03017753357752263113noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5607352.post-1162269052156923052006-10-30T23:30:00.000-05:002006-10-30T23:30:00.000-05:00I should congratulate Alex on the fine liner notes...I should congratulate Alex on the fine liner notes (introduction) he wrote for this CD, adapted from his review for "The New Yorker," which was indeed mostly positive. Perhaps "disastrous" is not the right word, but the premiere was widely (if not exclusively) acknowledged as a failure. Indeed, Mark Swed, whose initial review Alex cites as "positive," reviewed the Santa Fe revised production Charles T. Downeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14978821617871429169noreply@blogger.com