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Post by Admin on Apr 11, 2014 7:08:01 GMT -5
When you listen to LVB's 9th Symphony, what do you feel?
Especially, what emotions do you feel when you hear the "Ode to Joy"?
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Post by kate on Apr 12, 2014 15:51:38 GMT -5
How could you possibly anticipated my interest in this inquiry? For the benefit of other readers, I notified Jim by private chat that I would be traveling to Louisville (aka, "the big city", about 4 hours west of my mountain home) on Friday to watch the LSO perform LVBs 1st and 9th Sinfonias...I've always felt the latter to be the closest thing to classical pop music, as each movement presents with an extraordinarily euphonious theme - or "hook" - of which many are familiar through common cultural references (movies, tv, or even the old Warner Bros. cartoons) even if they can't formally identify the source.....
....however, until seeing the work played live, it had escaped me the degree to which the movements, following these introductory passages, are dedicated to deconstructing the components of those famous riffs, exploring their potential improvisatory boundaries, and then reconstructing them - in whole or part - at different speeds, with different tones, and by varying instrumental sections. Incidentally, the choral and operatic performers were just mesmerizing...its just too bad decorum dictates that we all sit still - I'd have loved to have hit the aisles for some free form twirling [barmy]....a monstrously good time, though the quick return trip has left me exhausted and with a funny (in retrospect) tale about the dog who accompanied me; which I shall relate in a more appropriate thread!
P.S.: Oh yes, and my answer would be "glorious", "spiritually fulfilled", or some other such poetic nonsense that utterly fails to convey the profound way in which the 9th truly moves me! I'll have to leave that one to more articulate TM posters/k
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