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Ladataan... Evenings with the Orchestra (1852)Tekijä: Hector Berlioz
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Kirjaudu LibraryThingiin nähdäksesi, pidätkö tästä kirjasta vai et. Ei tämänhetkisiä Keskustelu-viestiketjuja tästä kirjasta. A group of bored musicians stuck playing overrated operas in a small town is the background for this book. The musicians, with nothing left to do in the days before portable television, tell stories to each other. Our narrator records them, and tells a few himself. Some of them are a bit boring, a few are beautiful, and many are quite funny. The thing that struck me the most, however, is the idea that although the music which is popular today is different than that of Berlioz's day, many of the social aspects of music performance which are discussed have remained the same. When I read the section about the opera diva who holds every syllable until she's nearly out of breath, endlessly decorating each note in a grotesque display of ego, decadence, and false "emotion" (rendering the words she's singing unintelligable), I think of nothing so much as today's pop stars and "Idol" wannabes. Berlioz's wit was apparent in his music, but it really shines through in this novel. näyttää 2/2 ei arvosteluja | lisää arvostelu
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During the performances of fashionable operas in an unidentified but "civilized" town in northern Europe, the musicians (with the exception of the conscientious bass drummer) tell tales, read stories, and exchange gossip to relieve the tedium of the bad music they are paid to perform. In this delightful and now classic narrative written by the brilliant composer and critic Hector Berlioz, we are privy to twenty-five highly entertaining evenings with a fascinating group of distracted performers. As we near the two-hundredth anniversary of Berlioz's birth, Jacques Barzun's pitch-perfect translation of Evenings with the Orchestra --with a new foreword by Berlioz scholar Peter Bloom--testifies to the enduring pleasure found in this most witty and amusing book. "[F]ull of knowledge, penetration, good sense, individual wit, stock humor, justifiable exasperation, understanding exaggeration, emotion and rhetoric of every kind."--Randall Jarrell, New York Times Book Review "To succeed in [writing these tales], as Berlioz most brilliantly does, requires a combination of qualities which is very rare, the many-faceted curiosity of the dramatist with the aggressively personal vision of the lyric poet."--W. H. Auden, The Griffin Kirjastojen kuvailuja ei löytynyt. |
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