verbalizing minutiae

[thoreau]

CONFLICTED: I was just handed a pair of tickets to see Phantom of the Opera at the Orpheum. It is no mystery that I have great disdain for Andrew Lloyd Webber - but it is also an unknown fact that I've never actually seen Phantom of the Opera - only listened to the soundtrack. So should I go - despite my horrific misgivings about anything Andrew Lloyd Webber? (ALW=Satan musically)








WAGNER AND LANGLANG: Dave and I have tickets to see LangLang with the the San Francisco Symphony tomorrow night. LangLang (referred to as the “hottest artist on the classical music planet” by the New York Times), is an amazing pianist - and I think it'll be a great treat. He'll be playing Chopin: Concerto No. 1 in E minor for Piano and Orchestra, Opus 11. They are playing Wagner in the first act, namely 'Overture and Venusberg Music' from Tannhäuser and 'Suite' from Die Meistersinger. I love Wagner - so the combination of LangLang performing Chopin and the Wagner is almost the perfect concert! Yay!³





Mormon Tabernacle: Now a few listeners of KDFC are writing in threatening a boycott over us playing tracks off the Mormon Tabernacle Choir's large holiday repertoire. Ugh. I love working at a station where listeners really pay attention to what we're playing - but tying a recording of "O Holy Night" to Prop 8 - is a little much don't you think? and people don't just write a few sentences - they take the time to write encyclopedia article length diatribes. I had a dialogue with a listener this week - who once he learned I was also gay (like gay people don't work in radio?) - his tone changed dramatically. It's amazing how free people are to be incredibly personal and rude and accusatory in front of a keyboard; wheareas if the conversation were happening face to face - they'd never say these sort of things. e-mail has turned into the defacto method to vent uncontrolled. I wonder if KQED television will get slammed for playing the annual Mormon Tabernacle Choir Christmas Special?

Comments

[grizzlyzone.livejournal.com]

On Phantom: Go. It's supposed to be a classic and I think it's a requirement. You can always kvetch about it later - and knowledgeably.

On listening to the Mormon Tabernacle Choir: There's an adage about cutting off your nose to spite your face. Not gonna bother the SLC folks one little bit if you listen or not. So, spend your energies elsewhere.