Off The Beaten Track
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Mon Apr 12, 2010 5:23 pmby jimmydanger
I took in a concert at Orchestra Hall yesterday afternoon, Beethoven's Piano Concerto No.4 and Vaughn William's Symphony No.4. The Beethoven was pedestrian but the Vaughn Williams blew me (and everyone else) away. He was a medic in WWI and his job was to collect the dead and dying after the battle. This experience must have been very profound, because the symphony sounded like a war. One of the most exhilarating classical concerts I've seen, and I've seen a ton.
Posted:
Mon Apr 12, 2010 7:25 pmby gbheil
Is this the guy Jimmy?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5y7nJL1hpUU
My eldest son plays violin.
I try to turn him on to new stuff as often as possible.
Posted:
Mon Apr 12, 2010 7:36 pmby jimmydanger
No YouTube at work. It's not exactly new, he wrote it in the thirties.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_N ... n_Williams)
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Mon Apr 12, 2010 10:58 pmby gbheil
Yeah, yeah, same guy Ralph Vaughn Williams.
Different piece.
Cool, I'll have to ask George if he's heard of him.