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Topic: Music Updates
I'm having quite a mental merry-go-round reviewing the concert; each piece, in turn, becomes my favorite. What an adrenaline RUSH it's been to have ALL of the performances deserve to be my favorite. The best part has been having the MUSICIANS in the audience come up to me and say things to the effect of, "I was surprised that your antiphonal music WORKED!" It is so cool that a musical gamble--based on the length of the hall's reverberations--paid off. Of course, if the musicians performing the piece hadn't been so wonderful, it wouldn't have worked. It didn't hurt anything that the percussionist--the solo marimba player--was the one who had to work with the sound-lag. (For the majority of the music, I had tried to make the lag be part of the music instead of being something you had to ignore.) The singers got to be in their usual place. The other very cool thing was that the performance my overture for solo marimba was apparently so exciting that people clapped for it, even though the entire work was not finished, even though they had maintained the usual "applaud after ALL the movements are done" decorum for the other multiple movement works on the program.
Posted by evelyn4music
at 2:43 PM EST
Updated: Tuesday, 12 February 2008 3:39 PM EST