CSO - VW!!!!!!

[joshwirt]

Mac users can use this $10 app to record any audio source on their computer:

http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/41057/piezo

I personally use WireTap Studio for recording audio streams of concerts, etc. Its a bit more $$$$, but has great features like iCal scheduling and automation, audio editing, and cataloging.

[luke_hollis]

Many of the CSO concerts are posted online by the CSO at the following address within 1-2 months of the performance. The VW concert would likely show up in late June/July.

http://cso.org/ListenAndWatch/CSORadioRSS.aspx

Right now there is an especially good concert featuring a new piece called Alternative Energy and the Franck Symphony in D minor. While I am not usually a fan of new composition, the Alternative Energy piece is really quite amazing and tonal and I think better than the Franck.

As anticipated, the concert with the VW concerto will be available online starting July 20 at this link.

http://cso.org/ListenAndWatch/CSORadioRSS.aspx

If you want a full download of all their online programs, go to http://cso.org/uploadedFiles/CSORadio_3 ... stings.pdf

[Steve Marcus]

WFMT 98.7 FM Broadcast on Sunday, July 22, at 1:00 CDT:

Principal tubist Gene Pokorny is an anchor of the CSO’s legendary brass section and widely respected by colleagues, pupils and concertgoers. He demonstrates the entirety of the tuba’s range of expression in Vaughan Williams’ animated concerto. Jaap van Zweden leads Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony, which the composer himself called “one of my best works.”

Shostakovich: Chamber Symphony, Op 110a
Vaughan Williams: Tuba Concerto in F Minor (Gene Pokorny, tuba)
Beethoven: Symphony No 7 in A Major, Op 92
Shostakovich: Cello Concerto No 2, Op 126 (Han-Na Chang, cello; Antonio Pappano, conductor)

[Art Hovey]

As anticipated, the concert with the VW concerto will be available online starting July 20 at this link.

http://cso.org/ListenAndWatch/CSORadioRSS.aspx

The link is good, but the date is July 23, not 20.

[elihellsten]

The link does not work for me, sadly.

[rperrym]

I heard it around 1:30pm central time.
Rick

[rperrym]

I will try.
wfmt.com
This is the website that I heard the CSO and Gene play today.

Rick

[TheHatTuba]

I'm getting the same wordy page, is the link working for anybody else?

[chronolith]

http://cso.org/ListenAndWatch/Details.aspx?id=21086

In general I tend to check in on Tuesday mornings to find the new programs. Keep checking back.

[Steve Marcus]

It's posted NOW and available for your listening pleasure.

[chronolith]

Well spotted Steve. Thanks!

[Wu299]

It was beautiful, but I need to admit I expected more.
Perhaps I would get more if I saw and heard it at concert and not at radio, but better than nothing. Is there any way of downloading and keeping it?

[elihellsten]

Actually, I'm not very fond of his way of playing the VW. I don't think you should mess to much with it... so to speak.

[bort]

Bravo!

Gene, can you work in the Gregson next year?

[Uncle Buck]

Not that anybody cares what I think, but I absolutely loved it. I would have been sorely disappointed if Gene had just regurgitated another same-old pablum performance. A performance like this demands that Gene stand up and be an artist - that he say something with this piece that no one has ever said before.

And he did just that. Very nicely. Wish I could have gone there in person.

I haven't purchased a tuba solo CD for a long time. I would buy this performance for its uniqueness. That's also the reason I love the old Arnold Jacobs recording with the CSO, even with its flubs, because he was choosing to say something - something new.

[Michael Bush]

Is there any way of downloading and keeping it?

I'm not saying it's what you *should* do, but the answer is yes, there are ways. Google something like "capture streaming audio" and myriad solutions will appear before your eyes.

I think it's a fantastic performance. As controversial a choice as it may be, I especially like hearing it on the contrabass tuba. He has no problem whatsoever making the high notes sing, and the low ones growl so much more pleasingly on the big instrument.

[J.c. Sherman]

Despite the controversy, the sometimes very surprising departures from the mainstream performance practice, and my own previous trepidation...

BRAVO!

Some really nice ideas, especially the more "folksy" and singing qualities of the first movement. It's goddam miraculous that a 6/4 could be played with this kind of definition and beauty. DAMN!

J.c.S.

[Steve Marcus]

Finally had a chance to listen. I really enjoyed it!

Sounds like GP had a great time! He's a really funny guy and his humor really shined through.

He's a great role model on many levels and in many ways.

I hope they make this commercially available for purchase.

Ditto (or as they write now, "+1")

[Rick F]

What a fantastic performance!!! Wish I could have heard this in person.

BRAVO!!

[TubaNerd88]

I really liked Gene's interpretation of the Vaughan Williams. Very out of the norm and it worked well for the contrabass tuba. I really wish I could've heard this in person. Regardless, a fantastic performance by Gene Pokorny!