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In the Thread: I hate, hate, hate, hate Boston Symphony!
Post Subject: The traditionally poorly performing Beethoven IXPosted by Romy the Cat on: 8/23/2009
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It is a tradition in Boston to close the Tanglewood season with Beethoven IX symphony and it is almost a tradition to pay it very badly. Today was not an exception. Michael Tilson Thomas led BSO with Tanglewood Festival Chorus with the celebrated work.
It was very bad, particularly the BSO, but the most important it was very much typical to way how people play the Beethoven IX today. The Ninth is paled mostly like a roadway musical, in easily-alliterative fashion. The dramas of unique phraseology are swallowed and straighten up for sake of continuity of expressionism - sort of taken out of common sense musical version of political correctness. The choral part was a bit better but still it had a great spay of “stupid happiness” - the Tanglewood Festival Chorus sounded as the sing the “In the Tavern” song from Carmina Burana not the Beethoven IX. But I am known to discard the choral part of the Ninth – The Bruno Kittel Chorus did it year back and I hardly care how the choral part is being played today….
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