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In the Thread: I hate, hate, hate, hate Boston Symphony!
Post Subject: BSO/Mahler concert.Posted by Romy the Cat on: 10/1/2013
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Well, it is not about the way how a given “reviewer” like or does not like the music but the general level of informity of the BMI people who put them in position to express an expert option, not to mention the level of brainless pomposity they express while they do it. The guy from BMI wrote that the conductor sat down on a stool and waited for five full minutes while latecomers took to their seats. Well, the story how Mahler factored in the very long rest after first most is the most famous anecdote among all movements’ breaks but the BMI writer was not informed about not know about it. Does he have to? Let see: “David Patterson, Professor of Music and former chairman of the Performing Arts Department at UMass Boston, was recipient of a Fulbright Scholar Award and the Chancellor’s Distinction in Teaching Award. He studied with Nadia Boulanger and Olivier Messiaen in Paris and holds a PhD from Harvard University.“
I very much do not knock the David Patterson personally – it is fine do not know those relatively unimportant things but I brought it up as an illustration about the whole BMI level. Both MBI and Seen and Heard International gave high remark to this BSO/Mahler concert and I find it preposterous.
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