Bit longer message from Ennio than the one posted on the previous page by Henry:
“Dear Friends, it saddens me deeply to have to postpone these concerts. I am very much looking forward to my first Los Angeles performance and only my second New York City performance, both of which are almost sold out. Hollywood has been instrumental in bringing my work to American audiences, and my 2007 performance in New York was one of the high points of my career to date. I’m grateful and sorry to my fans for having to delay these shows. I’ll miss you, and I look forward to seeing you in June.”
I built a trip around his appearance in NY and have too many other things scheduled around it and costs already sunk into it. Given my experience with him cancelling LA a few years ago (again, another vacation I built primarily to attend his concert), I think I'm going to pass on the hope of June and get my money back. The cost of the tickets themselves, travel costs, and vacation time are too much to try again. I guess me seeing Morricone live was not meant to be.
Aw, heck! With just over a week to go, all of the plans have to be put on hold.
I'll keep (and use) my tickets for the (now rescheduled to June 13th) New York Morricone concert. I was at his 2007 Radio City Music Hall concert, which was absolutely outstanding. And I had tickets for the infamous cancelled Hollywood Bowl concert.
I worry that, at age 85, he won't mend as well as a younger person might. Here's to a full and complication-free recovery, Ennio!
These two "farewell tour" concerts will be our last chance to see him "live" here in the USA.
...Maestro Morricone has undergone an operation to repair a slipped disc, and his doctor has advised him not to travel long distances in the immediate future to ensure a full recovery.
YIKES! Take it from someone who has undergone 2 surgical procedures and about 50+ epidurals to deal with a ruptured L5 disc, it would be nothing short of a miracle for Morricone to make it back to the podium in June. I'm 48 and things sure as hell don't seem to heal fast and he's in his eighties!
We should all pray he takes as much time as necessary to rest, recuperate and not re-injure himself. Backpain is absolutely debilitating, and I'm sure I'm not alone here in wanting this living treasure to keep writing music for many more years to come.
THANKS, with that information I guess I better tell my friend to try to get a refund, because I too found it strange that a man that age could recover in a few months and perform again. A miracle indeed.
...Maestro Morricone has undergone an operation to repair a slipped disc, and his doctor has advised him not to travel long distances in the immediate future to ensure a full recovery.
YIKES! Take it from someone who has undergone 2 surgical procedures and about 50+ epidurals to deal with a ruptured L5 disc, it would be nothing short of a miracle for Morricone to make it back to the podium in June. I'm 48 and things sure as hell don't seem to heal fast and he's in his eighties!
We should all pray he takes as much time as necessary to rest, recuperate and not re-injure himself. Backpain is absolutely debilitating, and I'm sure I'm not alone here in wanting this living treasure to keep writing music for many more years to come.
My hopes and well wishes to Maestro Morricone!
I totally agree with you in theory EXCEPT I have had a slipped disc and I have known those who have had ruptured ones and those are two very different things. A rupture is much more serious. Still if Ron, who is a doctor, is concerned about whether he might recover in 3 months I think it still might be iffy. But, as he says, if there are no complications I really don't think they would have okayed this postponement if it was not a reasonable time for mending. The fact that Morricone has always had a fitness regime, to maintain his workaholic tendencies, for quite a long time now helps.
(actually I've been corrected on this. Thes are names for the same thing but there is a tendency to call minor ruptures slipped. So I guess it depends on how dramatic it was. Mine at age 61 was not, but I don't know at 84 what degree his was. Here is hoping his was more like mine.)
My 11 year old wants to see him (one of the Maestro's concert DVDs was a nightly bedtime companion when he was younger.) I bought tickets to the New York show but decided not to tell him just in case something like this happened. Don't want him looking forward to something and then be disappointed. I think I'll keep quiet about it until the day of the show.