Auf Anregung von Leopold Stokowski begann Arnold Schönberg im August 1945 mit der Komposition einer Fanfare für die Hollywood Bowl-Konzerte, die sich auf Motive aus den »Gurrelieder« beziehen sollte.
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Tag: Concert Venues
The Sage, Gateshead
The Sage houses two performance spaces—one seating 600, the other one seating 1,700—with impeccable acoustics. This impressive concert hall serves a city with a smaller population than, oh, Eugene, Oregon—you know, the corrupt and insane berg where well-known, well-respected Oxford-trained conductor Matthew Halls was so cavalierly fired. (See the Telegraph‘s 9 September 2017 article: “British Conductor Sacked by US Music Festival After ‘Innocent’ Joke with His African-American Friend was Labelled Racist“; then Norman Lebrecht’s Slipped Disc post from 17 September 2017: “Oregon’s Stupid University is Seriously Damaged“; Drew McManus’s post from Adaptistration: “Are Things About to Go Sideways for the Oregon Bach Festival?“; and Bob Hicks’s post from Oregon Arts Watch: “BachFest: The $90,000 Solution“.)
Why am I going on about bad music mojo in the middle of Oregon when this post is entitled “The Sage, Gateshead”? Because I came across this pic while the Halls story was breaking and it filled me with such a longing to be in a civilized place with a fine concert hall and honest beer. And I’ll tell you something, The Sage is going to be around long after the Oregon Bach Festival crumbles into dust. I’m clocking it.
Update: See my posting from 23 August 2018.
Revson Fountain at Lincoln Center, New York
Revson Fountain at Lincoln Center on 63rd and Broadway. At 18 I worked across the street at ASCAP weeknights as a solfeggist and this was the view outside our window.
