Post by Owen Y on May 8, 2020 15:18:11 GMT 12
Tonight, MET Opera presents LA BOHEME livestream: (7:30pm Fri EDT USA = NZT 11:30am Sat 9 May, available for 23 hrs until NZT 10:30am Sun.) " More famous tunes than any other opera. " (John Cargher) Puccini of course....
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Post by Citroen on May 8, 2020 15:27:08 GMT 12
RNZ Ballet this Fri-Sat-Sun: " A stripped down, elemental retelling of Swan Lake, with the agony and ecstasy of Tchaikovsky’s original score at its heart,... this is a Swan Lake for our time. "  Yep, I'll be in for this one.
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Post by Owen Y on May 8, 2020 15:51:30 GMT 12
Footnote NZ Dance company, presented yesterday on their Facebook page this short (30 min) creation - " Mass Solitude (群孤) is a movement meditation on connection and isolation. " - Topical themes. Available to watch on Youtube until 15 May. " This work was developed in China, in 2018, and was built from observations about being surrounded by community while also in isolation as an individual ”. " A collaboration between Footnote New Zealand Dance and Guangdong Modern Dance Company, Mass Solitude was created in Guangzhou in 2018. The work premiered as part of our Hemispheres season touring in China in 2018 and then New Zealand in February 2019. Both tours received fantastic reviews from audiences and media. " This is excellent, I found tai-chi-like & meditative in its mass chroeography & its vaguely Eastern instrumentation & taiko-like rhythms. And again, the lighting is evocative & simple.
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Post by Owen Y on May 8, 2020 21:20:35 GMT 12
As mentioned above, IMHO the APO (Auckland Philharmonic Orchestra) has the best streamed sound quality of the online concerts that I've sampled this 'lockdown'. Yesterday the APO streamed another recorded feature, which is still available from the APO Facebook page - www.facebook.com/aporchestra/videos/569951633627056/?v=569951633627056APO Encore Livestream: Unwrap Mozart’s Clarinet ConcertoThis is of particular interest because the APO's presenter takes listeners through the musical structure of this piece, one of Mozart's greatest compositions. This recording is quite recent, from June 2019. Whilst you don't get to hear the piece in continuous entirety, it's great learning for those who wish to learn about classical music. Australian clarinettist & his instrument are both pretty impressive too. 
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Post by Owen Y on May 10, 2020 13:28:29 GMT 12
MARLON WILLIAMS LIVE AT AUCKLAND TOWN HALL PREMIERE Concert - Sun May 10 - 12pm NZST Streaming on YouTube & Facebook
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Post by RdM on May 29, 2020 21:44:08 GMT 12
Igor Levit to live-stream Erik Satie’s Vexations
Thursday, May 28, 2020
The 20-hour piano piece will be performed live this Saturday (and Sunday!)
No stranger to performing some of the towering epics of the piano repertoire, Igor Levit will live-stream Erik Satie’s monumental Vexations on Saturday, May 30 at 2pm (CET), a performance that will be broadcast by The New Yorker and Der Spiegel, as well as on Levit’s own Twitter and Instagram accounts, @igorpianist. The concert is being given to raise awareness for the plight of artists worldwide.
‘It has always been a strong wish of mine to be able to perform Erik Satie's Vexations,’ Levit said. ‘While written in the 19th century, this piece was revolutionary thanks to its atonal harmony. The few notes - a theme and two variations - fit on just one sheet. The 840 repetitions herald early on a future of aesthetic repetitiveness. The sheer duration of over 20 hours of Vexations doesn't feel like a “nuisance” to me, as the title would suggest, but rather a retreat into silence and humility. It reflects a feeling of resistance. That's why it feels right to play the Vexations right now. My world and that of my colleagues has been a different one for many weeks now and will probably remain so for a long time. Vexations represents for me a silent scream.’
Igor Levit is financing the project via the funds from the Gilmore Award granted to him in January 2018.
Also see: www.gramophone.co.uk/podcast
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Post by Owen Y on May 30, 2020 10:09:59 GMT 12
Familiar of course with Satie's Gymnopédies, but not the Vexations. Should be enlightening.
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Post by Owen Y on May 30, 2020 17:32:06 GMT 12
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Post by RdM on May 30, 2020 20:51:09 GMT 12
Familiar of course with Satie's Gymnopédies, but not the Vexations. Should be enlightening. Yes, I'd never heard of Vexations until just then. Start 1 am our time?
I love the little Satie I've heard, I have physically 1 or 2 "proper" LPs, and then in a flac collection also ImproviSatie by Michael Gees.
Trailer here (need to get through the intro?)
There's a nice full album of Gymnopedies 1, 2, 3 (60 min) here:
Regards!
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Post by michaelw on Jun 6, 2020 11:24:08 GMT 12
another star studded live stream
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Post by Owen Y on Jun 6, 2020 15:08:18 GMT 12
That'll be 1:00pm NZT onwards, next Thurs, by my calcs. Willie, Flaco, Bonnie, Lyle, JT, etc... all legends. Alejandro Escovedo should be good to check out too.
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Post by michaelw on Jun 6, 2020 16:59:58 GMT 12
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Post by Owen Y on Jun 8, 2020 10:43:39 GMT 12
A heads up... www.nzso.co.nz Not sure, but possibly will be available On Demand from their webpage.
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Post by Owen Y on Jun 11, 2020 18:05:11 GMT 12
A Night For Austin:A worthy watch... average video quality, average to very good sound. Some big-name screenshots:  Willie of course.  Lyle Lovett, I'm a big fan.  Norah Jones  James Taylor in his log cabin.   John Hiatt
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Post by Owen Y on Jun 11, 2020 18:10:31 GMT 12
A pleasant surprise for me (not sure whay I would be surprised) was.... (Youtube videos are beginning to appear, but the quality of this this vid, is even worse than the original livestream, sorry - but nice sound, maybe it was that vintage U47 mic he was using  Class act.)
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Post by Owen Y on Jun 11, 2020 18:26:59 GMT 12
Unfortunately, I joined too late to catch Edie Brickell (married to Paul)....
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Post by Citroen on Jul 8, 2020 9:35:18 GMT 12
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Post by Owen Y on Jul 11, 2020 11:51:43 GMT 12
Crowd favourites  We'll likely have that Airplaying here.
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Post by Owen Y on Jul 11, 2020 20:37:55 GMT 12
Wait.... is that correct?
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Post by Citroen on Jul 11, 2020 21:46:20 GMT 12
Mahler Sym No.3 live next Wednesday night 7.30 pm only
You can watch this live stream online and for free at live.nzso.co.nz.
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Post by Owen Y on Jul 12, 2020 20:34:47 GMT 12
Ah good, we've seen the Beeth. Symph No.5. The Pastoral would be a hit around here too.
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Post by michaelw on Jul 15, 2020 19:31:44 GMT 12
Refund ! Concert is from 2016 and only in 720p 
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Post by Citroen on Jul 15, 2020 21:02:54 GMT 12
Refund ! Concert is from 2016 and only in 720p Not sure what link you've been to, but the live replays are from 2020. I actually thought that they would only be available live, not available to stream afterwards. EDIT- Ah, thought you were referring to the Beethoven but see its the Mahler from 2016
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Post by michaelw on Jul 15, 2020 21:19:40 GMT 12
The Mahler 3 that was on tonight. I followed your recommendation !
The preceding Matariki short looked good in 4k
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Post by Citroen on Jul 15, 2020 21:22:02 GMT 12
OK, I'll refund you...oh wait, it was free anyway!
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Post by michaelw on Jul 15, 2020 21:23:25 GMT 12
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Class act.)
