Ah, but it's useful for boarding an airplane and undergoing a visit to the
dentist. (I went to the dentist today..had close to an hour with the
hygienist..and this evening I went to the Symphony and heard someone named
Jacques Israelivitch saw his way through Bartok's Second Concerto. TheDentist
was the more pleasurable experience.)
dl
Peter Hirsch wrote:
> I actually played an entire concert (funded 100% by the composer) of the
> music of Richard Nanes at Town Hall about 20 years back. Frankly, it was
> some of the worst music I have ever played (or heard), but I can't knock
> the man for trying. I realize that taste is what one makes of it and
> that there are others capable of appreciating that which I cannot.
> Getting paid union scale for a concert is not something I ever learned
> to take for granted and Nanes at least knew that a cut-rate presentation
> of his symphonies and concerti wasn't going to help his cause any.
>
> Along the way, I seem to have acquired a couple of Nanes LPs on the
> Delfon label as gifts from one of my sadistically inclined friends (?).
> One contains his symphonies 1 & 2 (both in Bb major) and the other the
> "Rhapsody pathetique" for violin (Eugene Fodor) and orchestra, Symphony
> for strings and Concerto grosso for brass trio and chamber orchestra.
> The jacket blurbs (uncredited) associates lots of names (Menuhin,
> Palestrina, Mozart and Bach) with Nanes and his work based on his
> position as Composer-in-residence at Cathedral of the Sacred Heart
> somewhere in New Jersey, though the connections remain unclear.
>
> Peter Hirsch
>
> David Lewis wrote:
>> Karl,
>>
>> That's a good question; even I have no idea. All those products, and
>> the ad
>> on the back of the Schwann for years. I really tried to get a grip on
>> Nanes,
>> and technically he is a very skilled player. But I couldn't get past his
>> lapses of taste.
>> David N. Lewis
>> Assistant Classical Editor, All Music Guide
>>
>> "Never treat an audience as customers-always treat them as partners."
>> - Ted
>> Healy
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Association for Recorded Sound Discussion List
>> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Karl Miller
>> Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2007 9:45 AM
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: [ARSCLIST] Richard Nanes
>>
>> And speaking of Nanes, does anyone know anything about his story.
>> Karl
>>
>> David Lennick <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> Nanes. Richard Nanes.
>>
>>
>>
>>
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