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Name: Laura
Country: United States
State: Missouri
Metro: St. Louis
Birthday: 8/1/1988
Gender: Female
Interests: sleeping...playing piano...sleeping...singing...
Expertise: HAVING REALLY COOL PENGUINS!!!! Worrying about my grades, Acting crazy and sort of blonde, Tripping over myself, Playing piano, Teaching piano, Singing (Go St. Louis Children's Choir Concert choir!!! We rock...hard), being random, being brilliant, spelling (HAHAHA!!! Whoever fell for that is really stupid!! I cant' spell to save my life)
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| Making musical history
POST-DISPATCH CLASSICAL MUSIC CRITIC
03/28/2006
The
Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra performs Aaron Copland's "Lincoln
Portrait" Sturday, A pril 16, 2005 at Carnegie Hall in New York City.
(File photo) |
David Robertson is the conductor of the hour, and his concerts -
particularly those that take place out of town - are closely watched by
critics and industry mavens alike.
This weekend in New York, Carnegie Hall will present Robertson and the
St. Louis Symphony Orchestra in a pair of concerts as part of its
Perspectives series. Few of the out-of-town orchestras that perform at
Carnegie are presented by the hall; most must rent it.
Fewer still get more than one performance in a season. Because
Robertson is a Carnegie Perspectives artist this year, the St. Louis
orchestra will have a highly unusual four performances.
Last fall's first two Carnegie concerts focused on "music and sight;
how we hear and how we see," with Feldman's "Coptic Light" and a
program of Debussy accompanying paintings by Monet.
For Robertson, this weekend's concerts "are about language."
"This one is about music and words," he said. "The three pieces are
all very different, but the words are all in the vernacular. It's a
by-heart language - it's a very personal language, rather than
official."
The first program, to be performed Friday, will be previewed Wednesday
at Forest Park Community College. It's the U.S. premiere of Swiss
composer Michael Jarrell's "Cassandre," a "melodrama for soprano and
musical ensemble." German actress Barbara Sukowa, known to American
audiences from the films of Rainer Maria Fassbinder, will perform it in
English.
Saturday night's Carnegie concert will be a repeat of last weekend's
Powell Hall program: John Adams' "On the Transmigration of Souls" and
Brahms' "A German Requiem."
"Transmigration" begins with the sounds of engines and a child's voice
saying, "Missing," and moves into lyrical, elegiac music. Most of the
text comes from missing-person posters and memorial notices put up near
Ground Zero after the terrorist attacks in 2001. It has "both very
personal and very prosaic language," Robertson said.
The Symphony will be the first American orchestra to perform it other
than the New York Philharmonic, for which it was commissioned.
The three works have "three quite different modes of dealing with
language and setting language to music," Robertson said. "I think they
allow us to unlock the emotion that's in the music. One of the things
that classical music often does is portray very complex emotional
experiences without words. Occasionally, I think it's important to have
works that allow you to see things through the specificity of word,
that music takes us to another place."
The Adams/Brahms concert involves not just the orchestra but also the
St. Louis Symphony Chorus, under the direction of Amy Kaiser, and the
Concert Choir of the St. Louis Children's Choirs, directed by Barbara
Berners. More than 300 St. Louis players, singers, staff and board
members are going.
Berners said "Transmigration" is "very challenging" because of the
demands it places on the children's chorus - rhythmic difficulties,
changing meters and not-always-intuitive entrances.
"They've really grown by singing a contemporary piece like this," she said.
Another challenge: All 60 members of the Concert Choir sang at Powell,
but the stage at Carnegie can accommodate only 40. So, auditions were
held last fall.
"They have been so mature, gracious and professional about this," Berners said. "They all realize it was a very hard decision."
They've also had to think about the world in which they find themselves.
"The best antidote to terrorism is to be peacemakers in our own lives:
in our families, at school, whatever we're doing," Berners said. "It's
part of our way of finding our own sense of peace within this work." | | |
| I got a 1 on my piano solo!! And so did my choir friend, Alyssa who I accompanies on Friday. Yay! And it's good b/c I have a lot of friends in choir who are going to state. It will be like a party.
And after solo ensemble I had to go to my moms work b/c she needed to do this report thing. They had a piano at the nursing home where she worked and I played piano for the old people.
The it was off to my choir concert. A visiting choir from northern Kentuky. One girl in choir made sure we knew that they were from NORTHERN kentuky and not southern kentuky when she said, "w'ere from NORTHERN Kentuky; look, we wear shoes." I thought that was very funny. Anyway I had a solo in the concert and I did very well so I was happy about that. After the concert a big group of went to Fitz's in the Loop to have dinner. This was so much fun. Since we were such a big group (about 15 of us) we had a bizzillion hour wait. While we were waiting we went outside and sang on the street corner for cash. We made like three dollars too. We ate it was such fun. Fitz's has the most amazing soda (even I like it); it has TONS of sugar in it. Our table drank like 6 big pitchers of it. I came home shaking b/c I drank so much sugar. I couldn't stand still.
Anyway, today I slept until noon and then I watched Project Runway and Stars Wars. I was too tired to do anything else. | | |
| Such a fun day. I went to solo ensemble to accompany my choir friend Alyssa on her violin solo. We saw there ym old choir director that I had in 8th grade. That was fun. She did good on her solo. I hope she gets a one...she deserves it. Then afterward She, her mom, her friend who palys viola, and I went to Bubble Tea for food and festivities.
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Okay, today just got a lot better!!!! So, this morning Bobby wanted to go somewhere and I told him that he could only go out for like an hour b/c I of course had to go to solo ensemble. I think he might of been pissed at this but its hard to tell what Bobby's emotions are. Bobby doesn't get mad...he get's even. Anyway, he left the house without telling me and took the car. I have piano lessons...he knows I have piano lessons every friday...even if he forgot my mom left out a check for my piano teacher since this is the first lesson of the month that was in VERY clear view. Anyway, I called my piano teacher after I saw I had no car, and she had to come pick me up (My mom wasn't home, and I tried to call her but her cell phone was having issues. She couldn't have taken me). My lesson was cut in half. I was pissed for a while, but I just got of the phone with my mom telling her what Bobby did. First of all I think she's mad at Bobby. But even better, she said that it was probably time that she got us separate cars. Thank you Bobby; thanks for the new car my mom will buy me. And I bet he thinks I'm unhappy about what he did!!!!!! CAR FOR LAURA!!!!!!! | | |
| One more day of school and then the weekend. I have solo ensemble on friday and saturday and a concert on saturday as well. Wish me luck in all my endevors! | | |
| Okay I'm feeling better. I did nothing today. I watched Fiddler on the Roof on TV, ate pizza with my family, and then watched more movies. I feel better. I also read The Giver, which is a really good book. I've liked it since like 6th grade. | | |
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