I'm still here, kind of, but frazzled in the midst of a lot of diffferent trips. Lucerne last week. Rome this week, to interview another wonderful singer. Then home for four days, during which time I have to interview Yet Another Singer - what's going on with all these singers?!? I'll have met something like six of the best, so to speak. And I am trying frantically to finish the first draft of Novel No.2 before going on holiday to France the week after. So please forgive lack of blogging at the moment...
...and don't forget to tune in to the Last Night of the Proms tonight - it will feature KORNGOLD, no less, with the second half beginning with the suite from The Sea Hawk. Oh yes! Yes! Yes! About time too. Also, watch out for wonderful Paul Lewis playing Lambert's The Rio Grande, something one doesn't hear every day (though after reading Meredith Daneman's fantastic biography of Margot Fonteyn and seeing Tony Palmer's South Bank Show two-parter about her a few weeks back, I'll never view Lambert in quite the same way again...).
2 comments:
Thanks for the Lambert tip. I loved his book "Music Ho!" but had never heard his music -- splashy & spectacular!
I was struck that the Proms had cancelled a performance of The Rio Grande in 2001 because the decision makers felt its exuberance would be disrespectful to the victims of the World Trade Center atrocity. That decision troubles me in light of the victims of the hurricane flood. Better not to have cancelled it in 2001, it seems to me, but once you set the precedent . . . I guess I just don't get it.
9/11 may have been more shocking and disturbing to Europeans than the loss of New Orleans -- I don't know -- but for this American the two catastrophes have each been perfectly horrible -- I hasten to add that I have had no personal losses in either disaster.
Anyway -- not your decision, I know. Thanks again for the tip (I'll get to the Korngold too), and I eagerly look forward to your book.
Sorry for inflicting my New Orleans obsession on your blog. My apologies.
Thanks again for all you do for music and for writing.
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