Yes, yes... Let the hate flow through you....
Article with some description. If you're going to live in SF, and take the good, you also have to put up with things like "Transcend." In Chicago it might be called "Basement."
I wonder how many of the attendees actually go on to attend the symphony proper. Like, does going to this tell you how to dress (however you want, for reals), when to clap, how to order drinks (?), etc.?
And I don't know, the site itself makes me think, "way too young and hip for me," so it seems to be communicating everything they intend to communicate. Perhaps, aging neb, as you approach your exit from what, in my day, we called "the coveted 18-34 demographic," what you're feeling is less disdain than despair.
Ogged, if you think I would have been any more into this a decade ago than I am now, then I don't even know what to say.
(I want to like it—and I do like, say, The Lab, and I liked BAM/PFA's concert series—but so much about it screams "how do you do, fellow kids?" to me. And it annoys me that they're all "a place for people who love music!" without actually saying what the fucking music is.)
Yeah but "The shifting environment and live performances bring you from one moment in time to the next. "
How ELSE are you planning to get from one moment in time to the next, NEB? I bet you don't even have a backup plan.
...without actually saying what the fucking music is.
Uhh, what am I missing?
Notes on Hidden Worlds Jan 13 event
Villa Lobos "The little Train of the Caipira"
Andy Aikho Oscillate
Saint-Saens Aquarium
Crumb Vox Balaenae
David Lang are you experienced
VILLA LOBOS "The Little Train of the Caipira" from Bachianas Brasilieras No. 2 1930 | 4 mins
"Villa-Lobos's musical background do little to prepare us for "The Little Train of the Caipira" from Bachianas Brasileiras No. 2. Despite the title, this music really represents the characterful Brazilian in all his glory. The rhythms are more Latin than Bachian. (It probably wouldn't have occurred to Bach to make use of a bamboo scraper as an instrument, either.) The music builds great visuals. The sounds will lead you to see in your mind's eye the little train as it slowly gathers speed, the clicking of its mechanisms as it chugs along, and the eventual slowing to a halt."
I am not clear on the instrumentation
6: As you age, it's entirely understandable that you have become less in touch with what young people like nowadays.
Uhh, what am I missing?
Having followed the link. I'm talking about the upcoming event.
I can't even see an upcoming event, so you're ahead of me. Oh of course, it's under ABOUT. (This seems like the kind of thing I'd go to if someone offered me free tickets and then I'd mock the writing incessantly and probably lose friends.)
a "new place for people who love music" that doesn't even tell you what the program is
The Celebrity Series in Boston does this. Come pay a gazillion dollars to hear the Emerson Quartet. Playing... something!
Of course, the Celebrity Series is at least owning their horribleness right there in their name.
If it really WERE an evening of Satie I'd be all over it like a cheap suit.
I felt sure that would end up being rural Texas, but nope, San Francisco. Go figure.
8 is great. And now I'm anxious about how I'm going to get to the next moment in time.
Ooh, SimCity!
When you go to a Kanye West concert, or a Sleater Kinney concert or a Bob Dylan concert, they don't have a program with a set list of what songs will be performed. Why are classical music people such control-freaks? Why can't they handle uncertainty and surprise?
17: you know who's performing, though. Sometimes it does happen when you go to a performance of classical music that "the program will be announced from the stage"! But usually you know who the performer is.
Also there us like an incredible humongous potential rep I mean Ligeti and Grieg are both technically 20th c composers but those would be different concerts!
Grieg is a 19th century composer who lived and composed a little bit in the 20th century.
17: We are talking about people who are going to what is, essentially, a concert by a very prestigious cover band*. So... maybe the appeal of that is a big part of the demographic?
*And most of the things you get at classical music concerts were popular at the time they first started being performed, so maybe even a Top 40 band. Although I guess it would be hard to tell specifically because they didn't have radio charts for most of the periods involved.
Yeah yeah yeah. Copeland. Saint-Saëns. Shostakovich. Korngold. etc etc etc
I actually don't know where you're getting the idea that this will just be anything of the 20th century (and you don't have to tell me that it was diverse. Like I don't know what 19 is in reference to.
That website is supra annoying on a phone so the actual thing you are railing against will remain a mystery to me! But I pretty much trust your judgment of it.
I might actually go to the thing in March. Who knows, I could meet a beautiful woman equally disgusted by the venue's self-presentation.
Or, a clever lady-thief who now knows that posing as a person disgusted by the venue's self-presentation is an easy way to catch a mark.
Honestly, how has this blog not been used to affirmatively scam people yet?
It has, the famous "ogged" trick whereby a blogger gets a free meal at The French Laundry.
Could be tremendously lovely Trouble In Paradise type thingy! Neb needs his own Miriam Hopkins type.
And what are you doing to immanentize the ekranoplan, so to speak, dq? How are you helping that glorious cause?
Will send any scrumptious types I find your way, comrade!
