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Post by erik on Sept 10, 2011 16:58:09 GMT -8
Quote by drizzletown: One word: SEXISM.
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Post by drizzletown on Sept 12, 2011 6:09:21 GMT -8
Yep. No close-up cameras for Heart. So disrespectful. Sound was good & loud though, so I guess it just depends on the show. ?
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Post by erik on Sept 14, 2011 6:00:20 GMT -8
My sixth and final trip to the Hollywood Bowl for the summer of 2011 was essentially a 9/11 memorial concert, as it pulled together two works of remembrance.
Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra Bramwell Tovey, conductor
Boy Alto: CALEB GLICKMAN
Soprano: HEIDI STOBER Mezzo: KATE LINDSEY Tenor: NICHOLAS PHAN Bass-Baritone: MATTHEW ROSE
Los Angeles Master Chorale (Grant Gershon, music director)
Bernstein: CHICHESTER PSALMS Mozart: REQUIEM MASS IN D MINOR, K. 626
English-born conductor Bramwell Tovey held court last night and announced that the evening's concert was a 9/11 memorial concert, and it more than lived up to its billing. Leonard Bernstein's 1965 choral work "Chichester Psalms", which incorporates passages from the Book of Psalms and is sung in Hebrew, was the opening work, and a powerful one at that. The text put special emphasis in Psalm 23 ("The Lord Is My Shepherd") and Psalm 2 ("Why Do The Nations Rage?"), with Caleb Glickman, a boy alto from the L.A. Children's Chorus, especially poignant in the Psalm 23 passages. Despite the often-explosive nature of the work, which was otherwise dominated last night by the L.A. Master Chorale, the Chichester Psalms is one that ends in relative peace--highly appropriate for a composer and conductor who was a great steward in bringing that peace about through music-making.
Following intermission, Tovey, the orchestra, the Chorale, and our four vocal soloists performed that imposing work of Mozart's that has been a staple for 220 years, the Requiem Mass In D Minor, which sadly Mozart didn't live long enough to complete on his own (though, per his intentions, a pupil of his, Franz Xaver Sussmayr, managed to). The tempo seemed slightly fast for so solemn a work, but this wasn't one of those rush jobs where it seemed like everyone was in a hurry to get to a midnight fire sale someplace. The all-important first three sections (Introitus; Kyrie; Dies Irae) were handled with all the gravitas necessary, as were the Confutatis and Lachrymosa. The night ended with the Lux Aeterna movement, which borrowed its musical line from the work's first two sections. There seemed to be a fuller house than normal last night (possibly 12,000) for a Tuesday, but the combination of Bernstein and Mozart, and the 9/11 significance, was likely what drew the crowd.
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Post by thinwhitechick on Sept 14, 2011 6:42:28 GMT -8
^ Will you be attending this concert at the Hollywood Bowl? Just curious.
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Post by erik on Sept 14, 2011 9:10:04 GMT -8
Quote by thinwhitechick:
Unfortunately, no. But I know it's for a great cause. Bill Clinton is someone who, for whatever character flaws he might have had as president, has managed to do great things in his life, and this is a way of continuing all that (IMHO).
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Post by samfan6 on Oct 6, 2011 20:11:40 GMT -8
Jim and I went to an awsome Mary Chapin Carpenter concert tonight at the Sandler Center in Virgina Beach... She sang with her 5 band mates for 106 minutes and then did 15 min of encores.. It was unbelievable....she sang some older songs.... songs from her current "Age of Miracles" album and her humor was right on!! Best money I have spent on a concert in a while... Next concert is Tony Bennett on the 21st!
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Post by oregonchickfan on Oct 12, 2011 1:43:19 GMT -8
Has anyone seen Blake Shelton live? His tickets are very reasonable, and presale starts Thursday, so I am thinking about snatching up a ticket. I missed Miranda Lambert at Lake Tahoe, as I felt her tickets were too expensive, but my cousins are catching her show on Thursday. Hoping to win tickets for Jason Aldean, Thompson Square, and Chris Young. Blah, I hate being broke.
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Post by samfan6 on Oct 25, 2011 18:31:18 GMT -8
We saw Tony Bennett last Friday night... For being 84 years old he can stilll belt out a song... Sang all his hits and his band mates had several solos.... we enjoyed it and my Dad who is also 84 loved every minute of it and sang along with all the songs...
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Post by duncan175 on Oct 27, 2011 7:43:45 GMT -8
laura marling
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Post by duncan175 on Nov 14, 2011 16:35:18 GMT -8
gillian welch
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Post by Kent67b on Nov 14, 2011 20:50:36 GMT -8
This past Saturday night, Michelle and I went to a house concert in Larkspur to hear Corinne West and Kelly Joe Phelps perform as a duo. There were about 60 of us packed into a private home for a night of beautiful acoustic music by two very talented musicians.
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Post by Kent67b on Mar 17, 2012 22:07:26 GMT -8
I just got home from seeing Peter Frampton at the Marin Civic Center which is about a mile from my house. He performed the entire "Frampton Comes Alive" album at the venue where much of the album was recorded in 1976. Some of the album was recorded at Winterland in San Francisco and in some venue in Long Island. Tonight was a special night because he used a guitar that was thought to have been destroyed in an airplane crash in 1980. Apparently the guitar was stolen from the crash site and taken to the Bahamas where it was used for 32 years by a local musician there. Somehow the guitar was returned to Frampton last December and he now uses it for some of the songs he plays. The concert tonight was a 10/10 for me. As a side note to this, my friend Brian and I went to the Fillmore East in 69 or 70 to see an English band called Free. Bill Graham came on stage and informed the crowd that Free had cancelled and that he was replacing them with a new band from England called Humble Pie. Peter Frampton was the guitar player for them and was probably 18 or 19 at the time. That was a special night also.
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Post by erik on Jun 23, 2012 8:38:21 GMT -8
Opening Night at the Hollywood Bowl for the 2012 summer concert season. The Hollywood Bowl Hall of Fame gala, whose proceeds go to fund music education programs in the L.A. Unified School District (a great cause, given how much the arts get slashed in this country of ours), honored Reba McEntire and Chaka Khan, both of whom threw in favorites of theirs and versions of various show tunes.
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Post by Ross on Jun 23, 2012 8:56:42 GMT -8
i saw a stunning gig from jack white on thursday and i go to see alanis morissette on wednesday.
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Post by redheadedmomma on Jun 23, 2012 19:22:28 GMT -8
Weird Al on May 5th.
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Post by jwaldorf on Jun 23, 2012 20:24:13 GMT -8
^^^ BRAVO RHM, I hope you had a blast!!!
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Post by Ross on Jul 7, 2012 4:25:35 GMT -8
not a concert as such but i was at this on monday
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Post by Ross on Jul 10, 2012 8:42:53 GMT -8
i saw laura marling again on saturday at the royal albert hall.
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Post by erik on Jul 11, 2012 6:10:17 GMT -8
A mix of the extremely new...
Anna Clyne: REWIND Anne LeBaron: AMERICAN ICONS Cindy McTee: TEMPUS FUGIT
and the extremely established....
Beethoven: SYMPHONY NO. 9 (CHORAL)
...at the Hollywood Bowl last night, with the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra being led by Leonard Slatkin, and featuring vocal soloists Rachel Willis-Corensen, Sasha Cooke, Gordon Gietz, and Christian Van Horn, plus the Los Angeles Master Chorale, in the "Ode To Joy" choral finale of the Beethoven 9th.
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Post by Kent67b on Aug 1, 2012 13:54:19 GMT -8
Michelle and I went to the new Sweet-water in downtown Mill Valley last night to see the return of Hot Tuna to a place they used to play a lot. The old Sweet-water was shut down 3-4 years ago but a new one was set up in the Shriners hall. The music was acoustic and of course Jorma and Jack were up to their usual standards. Barry Mittlehoff has been playing mandolin with them for years. During the first set, Bob Weir came out and played three songs with them including an amazingly intense "My Masterpiece" and "Know You Rider". The only group I've seen more than Tuna is the DXE CHIX so I was in heaven. BTW, if you are wondering why I hyphenated the name of the venue, if I didn't it x's out the four letters from the t to the t. Weird.
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Post by Ross on Aug 1, 2012 14:43:07 GMT -8
saw eddie vedder on monday one of the finest gigs i have been too.
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Post by hilb126 on Aug 5, 2012 17:26:31 GMT -8
Went and saw Coldplay on Tuesday. I wasn't a big fan going into it, but man do they know how to put on a show. Single best concert I've ever been to (besides the Chicks of course ) When we walked in the arena, they gave each person what looked like a lanyard and we were told to put them on our wrist. What we were supposed to do with it after that, we had no idea. As the band walked out, the arena plunged into darkness and the lanyards lit up all at the same time. 20 thousand wrist bands turned on, pulsated, and synched at the same time along with the song. It was the most spectacular thing I've ever seen in my entire life. It starts at 1:16 in the following video. Watch and be amazed.
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Post by emiiadcx on Aug 6, 2012 3:19:01 GMT -8
20 thousand wrist bands turned on, pulsated, and synched at the same time along with the song. It was the most spectacular thing I've ever seen in my entire life. It starts at 1:16 in the following video. Watch and be amazed. Looks absolutely amazing! Glad you enjoyed their show! I'm a fan of them so it would be great to see them live. I saw Red Hot Chili Peppers last week in Finland and the concert was really good. I had have a rough week and I wasn't very eager to go but it really was worth it. They were energetic and the feeling was just so good and we had a lot of fun. They played all the best songs (I would have wanted to hear Snow too though) and the concert was truly the best thing for me this summer! Here's Flea, my friend happened to take a great shot of him with her iPhone!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 6, 2012 14:24:31 GMT -8
Last concert I went to was on Thankgiving. Well actually it started the day before and didn't end until after midnight thus it ended on Thanksgiving.
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Post by erik on Aug 17, 2012 6:16:18 GMT -8
At the Hollywood Bowl last night, music director Gustavo Dudamel led the Los Angeles Philharmonic in a program that was part of his continuing musical series "Americas & Americans", spotlighting works from composers of the U.S. and the rest of the North and South American continents. In this case, it was:
Juan Carlos Nunez: TOCCATA SINFONICA NO. 1 Alberto Ginastera: PIANO CONCERTO NO. 1 Aaron Copland: SYMPHONY NO. 3
Dudamel's fellow Venezuelan Sergio Tiempo was the soloist in the Ginastera concerto, a work liable to make most pianists' fingers get tied up in knots (it requires virtuoso playing the likes of which most audiences probably aren't used to). The Nunez piece was a short but lively work full of the traditional musical tropes of Latin America, with big bold brass and exotic percussion. And the night concluded with a work from our own American soil, namely Copland's Symphony No. 3, with its finale built upon variations of his 1942 "Fanfare For The Common Man."
As a sidenote, it was only appropriate that Dudamel should have programmed two very spicy Latin-American works on last night's concert, because it was incredibly sultry last night even in the hills above Hollywood.
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