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Post Subject: From Lorin Maazel personal blog.Posted by Romy the Cat on: 9/16/2013
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The Six Thousand-Strong Roar Sep 8, 2013 - Royal Albert Hall 
 
Phenomenal...utterly, totally, unimaginably phenomenal:
the awesome audience response at the Royal Albert Hall
at the conclusion of the Vienna Philharmonic's performance
on September 6 of Austria's Mother's Milk:
Anton Bruckner's Eighth Symphony.
In my over sixty years of conducting concerts...including some at the Proms....I have never
experienced such a joyous, roaring ring
coming from the throats of six-thousand enthralled humans,
erupting just as the sound of the last note became history.
Yes, we had given our all.
Yes, the VPO's Wagner tubas made sounds to die.
Yes, the VPO strings made their mark yet again.
Yes, I was especially "with it".
Yes, the 1890 version of Bruckner's Eight won the day.
But to witness in our time to what degree a knowledgeable, young,
mostly standing group of music-lovers can become part of a
Trip Second to None,
reinforces my belief that Classical Music in today's discordant world
has an increasingly relevant role to play.

- Lorin Maazel

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