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From: MSN NicknamePikesPeak14110  (Original Message)Sent: 5/19/2008 4:26 PM
 
While looking for a You Tube performance of the correct section of The Faust Symphony, I happened upon this remarkable performance of Star Wars Overture, in which a violinist's bridge snaps. A momentary clip, and to most it appears as "nothing."
 
However, the warmth of this orchestra's performance is WONDERFUL, reminiscent of the rich sound Eugene Ormandy got from the Philadelphia Orchestra. I wonder how many of those players are Juilliard trained- in my years there, Orientals dominate the student culture!
 
I have to say the Juilliard Orchestra sucks! Nobody in it wants to be an orchestral player- they all want solo careers, and consequently while playing with great technical skill and mastery, their attitude spoils the whole effect. Immaturity at its finest! Orchestra is required, and very few want it.


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From: MSN NicknameneverCominHomeSent: 5/19/2008 5:31 PM
The individual must melt away for an Orchestra to succeed...can't have that with a collection of divas can you?

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From: MSN NicknamePikesPeak14110Sent: 5/19/2008 7:14 PM
Nope. The lesson, which they learn in that humility, is some things require an assembly of us, and are greater than any one of us as an individual.
 
I saw the joined NY Phil - Tel Aviv Phil concert Zubin Mehta conducted, of
Wagner's Good Friday Music from Parsifal, in Israel. Remarkable concert. Never
have I seen an audience so moved. But most telling was back in the second
violin section, in the back row. Sitting there, playing second fiddle, part of the performance, part of the history, with his crutches at chairside, and not one motion toward individual acclamation, was Itzhak Perlman.