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What does SF Opera music director Donald Runnicles do when he's not conducting Wagner at the War Memorial Opera House? He's conducting Wagner in London. What does SF Symphony music director Michael Tilson Thomas do when he's not conducting Mahler at Davies Symphony Hall? You guessed it: he's conducting Mahler in London. We knew that addicts to Mahler or Wagner existed. But to think that they live in our own backyard? Well, that's just spooky.
In our haste on Tuesday, we forgot to mention that you could hear more MahTlerT (MTT and Mahler have become so imbricated that we had to create a shortcut) here (links to sound file of Mahler's 7th symphony). This is a performance at the Royal Albert Hall, which happened on 9/2. And the difficult to please London reviewers chime in here. (Dang, these commenters are harsh! Worth a look.)
MTT and the SF Symphony orchestra had two Proms performance, the other one the night before (click for music, program and reviews/comments) was pretty much the Bon Voyage! concert they gave here prior to leaving on this trip.
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Well, at least Europeans and Brits can comment on "classical music" intelligently. All you get here in the States is crap like "Oh, it was lovely. I wanted to fall asleep, it was so soothing" or "I like the part where the drums played real loud."
On my annual summer motorcycle tour I spent a few days in Jackson Hole, Wyoming and learned about another thing Donald Runnicles does when he is not conducting Wagner at the SF Opera:
http://www.gtmf.org/concerts.php?sortView=monthly&month=7&year=2007
Also, I am confused about the whole MahTler T. I think I know what you're trying to do (sneak MTT into Mahler's name), but when you read it, it sounds like Mottler T. What's up with that?
Cement Brunette,
but I have no clue what/who Mottler T is! So at least I am free of that confusion.
RedSeca2: Runnicles is music director of the Grand Teton music festival, so he probably conducted more than one performance there. Not a bad place to spend a vacation!
Runnicles actually played piano in chamber music concerts there, I see:
http://www.jacksonholewy.com/grand-teton-music-festival.php
I wish he'd do chamber music around here too!
I was actually in the chorus that did Carmina Burana with him in the Grand Tetons. It was absolutely wonderful.