I think this is the Youtube of which Dave writes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtQ9XZ7f_Rg

Agree the performance is more coherent. I could see an interesting concept of setting that whole 
Baroque Variations to an intense rave-type light and video show. Create a multi-media 
utopia-dystopia vibe. A new take on the Warhol "Happening" concept. Do it in an old circus tent. 
Maybe use some pyrotechnics to enhance the percussion hits.

-- Tom Fine

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Lewis" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, January 01, 2016 2:51 PM
Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] World premiere of "a totally terrible piece of music"


> There is a YouTube of the Buffalo "Baroque Variations," via "the Wellesz
> Company," which posts a lot of albums of modern music. But the LP copy they
> used is
> IMHO unacceptably scratchy and, indeed, clean copies of that particular
> Nonesuch are hard to find. It occurs to me that a fair number of Nonesuch
> albums are
> noisy above and beyond the call, though the worst ones are their Digital
> LPs from the 80s, which were from the factory defective.
>
> best,
>
> UD
>
> On Fri, Jan 1, 2016 at 2:42 PM, Malcolm <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> Your upload is still there as of about 5 minutes ago, Tom.
>> If you, or anyone else here, should locate a later, better, more balanced
>> performance of this piece I would like to hear it.
>> Malcolm
>>
>> *******
>>
>> On 12/31/2015 3:45 PM, Tom Fine wrote:
>>
>>> I've now put the audio of the premiere performance up at Dropbox:
>>>
>>> https://www.dropbox.com/s/fl7s8skcq3q3ggw/NY%20Philharmonic%20670427%20-%2001-Lukas%20Foss%20-%20Phorion%20%28world%20premiere%29.mp3?dl=0
>>>
>>> I cannot guarantee Dropbox will allow too many downloads, so if you want
>>> it, grab it.
>>>
>>> Anyone who knows a better no-fee system, I'm all ears. I have a lot of
>>> offbeat and obscure audio I'd love to share, but don't want to pay to share
>>> it. Is there any easy way to do Youtubes with just audio, for instance is
>>> there software that will just put some generic image around an audio file
>>> and render it to a video? Youtube apparently requires some sort of video
>>> element for a file upload. I certainly don't have the time or inclination
>>> to get into video production to share audio, but if there's some automated
>>> way to select an audio file and a photo file and get a MPEG or MOV file
>>> that's Youtube compatible rendered out of it, I'll try it.
>>>
>>> -- Tom Fine
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Lewis" <[log in to unmask]>
>>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>>> Sent: Thursday, December 31, 2015 7:04 PM
>>> Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] World premiere of "a totally terrible piece of
>>> music"
>>>
>>>
>>> I've always known it from recordings and like it -- I think it is an
>>>> important piece, just by virtue of being a "mash-up."
>>>> I do think that Foss' own recording, with Buffalo for Nonesuch, is a bit
>>>> more convincing than Bernstein's, which seems
>>>> more exploratory and tentative.
>>>>
>>>> Happy New Year!
>>>>
>>>> Uncle Dave Lewis
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 6:16 PM, Steven Smolian <[log in to unmask]>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I was at that concert and hated the piece.  PDQ Bach it wasn't, nor had
>>>>> it
>>>>> the snarkiness of Alfred Schnittke nor the dry gumor of Cage. It seemed
>>>>> a
>>>>> mash-up with no apparent connections of the inserts to one another nor
>>>>> to
>>>>> the musical framework.
>>>>>
>>>>> Steve Smolian
>>>>>
>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>> From: Association for Recorded Sound Discussion List
>>>>> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Tom Fine
>>>>> Sent: Thursday, December 31, 2015 4:41 PM
>>>>> To: [log in to unmask]
>>>>> Subject: [ARSCLIST] World premiere of "a totally terrible piece of
>>>>> music"
>>>>>
>>>>> It's not often that a scathing review like this gets written:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> https://www.dropbox.com/s/4qbixnsusqkd5c2/World%20Journal%20Tribune%20670428
>>>>> %20Lucas%20Foss%20piece%20booed%20by%20NYPO%20audience.pdf?dl=0
>>>>> or that people jeer at a NY Philharmonic concert!
>>>>>
>>>>> Listen and judge for yourself:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> https://soundcloud.com/tom-fine-1/ny-philharmonic-concert-april-27-1967-luka
>>>>> s-foss-phorion-world-premiere/s-LZz7Y
>>>>>
>>>>> Recording found on a yard-sale reel tape, the review was included in the
>>>>> box. Surprisingly good fidelity for quarter-track off-air taping,
>>>>> although
>>>>> the channels were reversed and there's considerable edge warp on the
>>>>> ancient
>>>>> acetate-backed 1-mil tape.
>>>>>
>>>>> Happy New Year!
>>>>>
>>>>> -- Tom Fine
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
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