tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5607352.post116468849187629528..comments2024-03-25T16:51:04.370-05:00Comments on <a href="http://ionarts.blogspot.com/">Ionarts</a>: Monteverdi's Magnum OpusCharles T. Downeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14978821617871429169noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5607352.post-1165503046943574292006-12-07T09:50:00.000-05:002006-12-07T09:50:00.000-05:00Charles, I missed the more recent Monteverdi Vespe...Charles, I missed the more recent Monteverdi Vespers at the Shrine, though I believe that I was somewhat aware of it. I can't recall if I was away, or chose to not go (if not busy) because I wanted to preserve my earlier, almost mystical memory of the Shrine performance of, I believe, 1982. (I can't recall the conductor, but recall that it may have been the scholar involved in the fine LP Garth Trinklhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11084463787729969177noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5607352.post-1165369344696410242006-12-05T20:42:00.000-05:002006-12-05T20:42:00.000-05:00Thanks, Garth! By any chance, did you happen to at...Thanks, Garth! By any chance, did you happen to attend the performance of the 1610 Vespers at the National Shrine (not our choir) that was three or four years ago? I'll have to look that up. It was the last time I heard the piece, complete, live.Charles T. Downeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14978821617871429169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5607352.post-1165351336543071872006-12-05T15:42:00.000-05:002006-12-05T15:42:00.000-05:00Thank you very much for this expert review, Charle...Thank you very much for this expert review, Charles. It reminded me that excellent live performances of Monteverdi's 1610 Vespers -- once at your National Shrine here in Washington over twenty years ago, and once in Berkeley about 30 years ago -- have been highlights of my listening life.<BR/><BR/>Your review also reminded me that I haven't watched my old John Eliot Gardiner 1974 VHS Saint Marks Garth Trinklhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11084463787729969177noreply@blogger.com