Yet another premiere
Posted: Fri Apr 18, 2025 5:03 pm
On the heels of their US premiere of a trombone concerto last weekend, the DSO is doing a world premiere this weekend of a concerto for flute, oboe, clarinet and bassoon.
(cool, we can embed Facebook vids now!)
I have to conclude that somewhere there's a horn player who won a game of rock-paper-scissors with the rest of her quintet.
Of course, I shouldn't judge a major work by a mere thirty seconds... but that's what they're giving me to judge it by, hoping I will buy a ticket to a remaining performance.
To me, that sounds very unpromising. It sounds like an assignment from a college "new music" theory class. It sounds like that random-note chirpy stuff lame composers have been doing since the 1960s.
Something has gone wrong.
(cool, we can embed Facebook vids now!)
I have to conclude that somewhere there's a horn player who won a game of rock-paper-scissors with the rest of her quintet.
Of course, I shouldn't judge a major work by a mere thirty seconds... but that's what they're giving me to judge it by, hoping I will buy a ticket to a remaining performance.
To me, that sounds very unpromising. It sounds like an assignment from a college "new music" theory class. It sounds like that random-note chirpy stuff lame composers have been doing since the 1960s.
Something has gone wrong.
