Day 233: Bruckner 8 in the Musikverein
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Day
233 — Bruckner 8 in the Musikverein
22-March-1972
(Mittwoch–Wed.)
TRANSCRIPT
Good day with electronic
music. Starting to get places. Also bought a
stopwatch (320s–$13 dollars). A necessity.
Concert in Musikverein. Hochschule Orchestra with
Karl Östereicher, conductor. Big even, Bruckner’s
8th. Nice piece of music, fun to play. All in all, I
think it went fairly well, however, some
disappointments. Some winds, cellos, horns and
brasses—a few too many wrong notes and bad timing.
But all in all, not a bad student orchestra. Pretty
good. I would even say.
My playing was all right too. Very few mistakes.
Sometimes intonation was a problem, especially on
Wagner tuba. I would have to hear the tape to hear
results. Östereicher, an excellent conductor. Knew
the music well.
REFLECTIONS
Timing
the score. In
electronic music news, I buy a stopwatch to time the
elements of the score for Fantasy
on Broken Glass.
Bruckner
in the Musikverein. Finally,
we perform the Bruckner Symphony
No. 8 in the
Musikverein. I offer some comments on the student
performance. As usual, I suspect that my criticisms
were based against a 100% perfect performance and
that the actual performance was quite good. My
performing on the Wagner tuba might not have been
perfect as well but it sounds like it was fine. I
enjoyed Maestro Karl Östereicher and his conducting.
In all, performing in the Musikverein was the thrill
of a lifetime. The Hochschule’s student orchestra was
likely one of the best orchestras I’ve ever played
in.
Wouldn’t it be great to hear a tape of that
performance today?
Musikverin
photos. The
opening photo is not of this concert but one of
several I have taken in the Vienna Musikverein’s
Golden Hall. The Vienna Boys’ Choir in the organ
balcony indicates that this is one of the upcoming
Bernstein concerts, specifically, Mahler’s
Symphony
No. 9. For the
Bernstein concerts I was in the 2nd tier balcony
seats (in a front-side view to Maestro Bernstein). To
take the above picture, I must have run around to the
back of the balcony and taken these and some of my
other photos at the end of the concert. I’ll present
them again when we get to the Bernstein concerts.
Yes, I was playing on that stage. A thrill!
John
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