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Re: R: GG: End of Concerts Possible??
All of this is a wakeup call to remind
us that we can't exclusively love music in our living rooms and on the Internet.
We have an obligation to buy tickets and go to concerts.
Each of us needs to think about
"adopting" a particular struggling music ensemble. They need not just
money but volunteers, people who spread the gospel of musical enthusiasm through
the community.
Glenn was right to withdraw from the
concert stage -- for Glenn.
But right or wrong, the mainstream of
music culture has always centered around the live performance. Even if it's a
pain in the butt for the performers, it's a thrill like no other musical thrill
for the audience.
In particular, educated, cultured
parents who never take small children to a symphony should be reported to the
authorities. Every orchestra devotes several annual concerts to child audiences,
and my memories of these are among the happiest of my childhood -- marvelous,
loud, funny music like Harry Janos, Lieutenant Kije, Carnival of the Animals.
Last year I went to a performance of "Don Giovanni" by the Salzburg
Marionettes, and I've never seen such enchanted children as those in that
audience. Now they all know that some dead old white guy named Mozart had
something to do with that magic, and they'll never forget it.
So ... adopt a symphony today. Wear its
t-shirt proudly. Bake a cake for its benefit lunch. Spend a few evenings on the
phone with its subscription campaign. Change your will and leave it a modest
gift after you don't need it anymore. Pick up the phone and ask, "What can
I do, how can I help?"
Bob
>Thanks to Ms. Mary Jo Watts for
the news and the link about The "Toronto
>Symphony
Orchestra"
>I remember that in the piece "
With the memory don't to joke or Memory of
>the Toronto Symphony
Orchestra" GlennGould talk about "His Orchestra"
with
>love.
> This text is published in the Italian Book
" Glenn Gould - No, non sono un
>eccentrico" edit by Bruno
Monsaingeon (Glenn Gould - No, I aren't an
>eccentric") EDT
Musica - Torino.
>Gould has had deep affection for this
ensemble that was the Orchestra of
>His childhood, of His
debut, of His home.
>It's sad, now, to hear this case : Glenn Gould
was a prophet when He said
>"In the Year 2000 the live
Concert will dead" ?
>
>Best
>
>Valeria
Massari