What I would give for a clear layout of the season like that Cincinnati website...
My C(hicago)SO has, I think, been making it worse each year to navigate and see what the whole season program is. I always have to reconstruct it myself so I can have it in an easily reviewable format to decide what I plan on seeing.
NTT: very Debussian touch to the piano, but we already knew it was French from the clue... Or did we? Lots of foreign students studied in Paris. De Falla and Enescu come immediately to mind.
Now, I'm going to really stretch my recollection of French music history here. From what I recall, D'Indy was teaching at the Conservatoire, but then he defected to the Schola cantorum so he could really dig into the boringness of Gregorian chant. So I think this composer would have to be part of a slightly older generation. (I may have that all wrong... I'll look it up after I finish commenting.)
I heard what may have been a few more modernist touches alla Scriabin.
I think my bucket is: Nadia Boulanger, Manuel de Falla, and Georges Enescu
Satisfying album review - thank you, Will! I agree that it's not Puts' strongest work, and that Philip Glass ripoff is all too blatant (unnecessary??). I enjoyed the marimba concerto though it is not memorable per se. I was excited to hear the new album, but underwhelmed for sure.
NTT: Sounds very Faure to me (and I think he would fit the hint). Possibly one of his Valse-Caprices? Or maybe a Barcarolle. Not sure that I've heard all of the former but have the latter.
What I would give for a clear layout of the season like that Cincinnati website...
My C(hicago)SO has, I think, been making it worse each year to navigate and see what the whole season program is. I always have to reconstruct it myself so I can have it in an easily reviewable format to decide what I plan on seeing.
NTT: very Debussian touch to the piano, but we already knew it was French from the clue... Or did we? Lots of foreign students studied in Paris. De Falla and Enescu come immediately to mind.
Now, I'm going to really stretch my recollection of French music history here. From what I recall, D'Indy was teaching at the Conservatoire, but then he defected to the Schola cantorum so he could really dig into the boringness of Gregorian chant. So I think this composer would have to be part of a slightly older generation. (I may have that all wrong... I'll look it up after I finish commenting.)
I heard what may have been a few more modernist touches alla Scriabin.
I think my bucket is: Nadia Boulanger, Manuel de Falla, and Georges Enescu
"everyone seems to think that I’m just a shill for anything in the contemporary music space that happens to be tonal!"
If the shoe fits...
And amazing analysis of the classical vibe of Cincinnati. Never really thought about it before, despite being from there.
Satisfying album review - thank you, Will! I agree that it's not Puts' strongest work, and that Philip Glass ripoff is all too blatant (unnecessary??). I enjoyed the marimba concerto though it is not memorable per se. I was excited to hear the new album, but underwhelmed for sure.
NTT: Sounds very Faure to me (and I think he would fit the hint). Possibly one of his Valse-Caprices? Or maybe a Barcarolle. Not sure that I've heard all of the former but have the latter.