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Feb 6, 2019 - 2:47 PM
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sajrocks
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how many “orchestrators” were involved in this? It shouldn’t t matter, but if you are dipping your feet into the world of concert music, you need to ask yourself how many orchestrators did Shostakovich, Beethoven, Tchaikovksy, Mendelssohn, Stravinsky and all the other composers of the great Concertos use?
i would assume 2-3. that's what he used for his previous large-scale concert pieces – bartek/simone on 'serenada schizophrana' and bartek/simone/slonaker on 'rabbit & rogue'. (it's great that he always credits these artists and gives them so much work.) don't feel elfman's compositional approach/technique is analogous to shostakovich, beethoven et al., and know that many taking concert hall commissions these days work outside of traditions of 100+ years ago.
i'm also not sure at age 65 elfman should juggle doing X number of films and concert works each year, while learning the technical minutia of transposition, instrument idiosyncrasies, section/doubling balance etc. i'd much prefer him writing music and giving modern orchestra some pop/cash infusion.
that said, you can really tell how much he's learned about the orchestra when you listen to his (and his orchestrators') re-orchestrations of the 80s stuff in the burton concerts. and his writing since he started doing concert works in the mid 00s has definitely changed — richer, more complexity in harmonic and melodic ideas and interchange, perhaps a bit subtler and more well-balanced.
i for one can't wait to listen to the new concert works blasting through my headphones come march. thank you for sharing!
shannon
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One of the most amazing live concerto experiences I've ever had was the Joseph Joachim (not to be confused with one of my very favorite composers mentioned by TerraEpon earlier in this thread, Joseph Joachim Raff) 2nd violin concerto performed by Christian Tetzlaff with the Houston Symphony. It has a reputation as the most difficult violin concerto that ever gets even an occasional airing and is over 45 minutes long...Tetzlaff's performance was incredible even though by the end of it he was sweating like crazy and his bow was kinda falling apart.
Yavar
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I look forward to hear Concerto for Violin & Orchestra 'Eleven Eleven after watching that video.
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