Concerts

Post by **Worm of Despite** » Fri Apr 07, 2006 7:19 pm

I really, really wanna see the Flaming Lips someday. Their live shows are out of this world--confetti, balloons, people dressed in giant rabbit costumes!

Post by **Cheval** » Wed Apr 19, 2006 2:08 am

Bummed out...

Found out that The Alan Parsons Project played
last Saturday in Clearwater. (17 miles away)
Just like Blue Oyster Cult did a few months ago:
played a venue and didn't advertise
except a small announcement in a weekly local publication.

Post by **jelerak** » Wed Apr 19, 2006 2:15 am

Yngwie Malmsteen is coming here to the House of Blues in May.

I hope to get a chance to go see him again.

Post by **sgt.null** » Wed Apr 19, 2006 6:17 am

i was excited to see Shooter Jennings and Lynard Skynard. until I found that Shooter was opening and Three Doors would clog the middle spot. having seen Skynard last year decided to wait until Shooter comes through again. maybe with Bare jr. (one can dream)

Post by **dlbpharmd** » Sat Apr 22, 2006 9:35 pm

The wife and I saw The Three Phantoms along with the Knoxville Symphony last night. The Three Phantoms are 3 Broadway vocalists who have each played the Phantom in Phantom of the Opera (along with several other roles over their careers.) The sang alot of different Broadway tunes, most of which I'd never heard before, and then Craig Schulman sang Bring Him Home from Les Miserables (Schulman was one of the vocalists, and he holds the record for most perfomances of Jean ValJean.) The concert closed with all 3 vocalists singing Music of the Night from Phantom. Their harmonies were exquisite! All in all, it was a good concert, if any of you get a chance and like this sort of music you should see them if they're in your area.

Post by **duchess of malfi** » Sun Apr 23, 2006 4:07 am

Calibaby and I went to a really fun classical concert tonight, given by the Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Arie Lipsky.

The first piece they did was by composer Paul Fetler. It was called Three Poems by Walt Whitman and it was a really good piece of music. There were three songs, one for each bit of poetry

The poems:

I am he that walks with the tender and growing night;
I call to the earth and sea, half-held by the night.

Press close, bare-bosom’d night! Press close, magnetic, nourishing night!
Night of south winds! night of the large few stars!
Still, nodding night! mad, naked, summer night.

Smile, O voluptuous, cool-breath’d earth!
Earth of the slumbering and liquid trees;
Earth of departed sunset! earth of the mountains, misty-topt!
Earth of the vitreous pour of the full moon, just tinged with blue!
Earth of shine and dark, mottling the tide of the river!
Earth of the limpid gray of clouds, brighter and clearer for my sake!
Far-swooping elbow’d earth! rich, apple-blossom’d earth!
Smile, for your lover comes!

Prodigal, you have given me love! Therefore I to you give love!
O unspeakable, passionate love!

The middle song was one of Whitman's Civil War poems:

1

BEAT! beat! drums!—Blow! bugles! blow!
Through the windows—through doors—burst like a ruthless force,
Into the solemn church, and scatter the congregation;
Into the school where the scholar is studying;
Leave not the bridegroom quiet—no happiness must he have now with his bride; 5
Nor the peaceful farmer any peace, plowing his field or gathering his grain;
So fierce you whirr and pound, you drums—so shrill you bugles blow.

2

Beat! beat! drums!—Blow! bugles! blow!
Over the traffic of cities—over the rumble of wheels in the streets:
Are beds prepared for sleepers at night in the houses? No sleepers must sleep in those beds; 10
No bargainers’ bargains by day—no brokers or speculators—Would they continue?
Would the talkers be talking? would the singer attempt to sing?
Would the lawyer rise in the court to state his case before the judge?
Then rattle quicker, heavier drums—you bugles wilder blow.

3

Beat! beat! drums!—Blow! bugles! blow! 15
Make no parley—stop for no expostulation;
Mind not the timid—mind not the weeper or prayer;
Mind not the old man beseeching the young man;
Let not the child’s voice be heard, nor the mother’s entreaties;
Make even the trestles to shake the dead, where they lie awaiting the hearses, 20
So strong you thump, O terrible drums—so loud you bugles blow.

The third song was of a poem about a child who hears music in everything:

Ah, from a little child,
Thou knowest, Soul, how to me all sounds became music;
My mother’s voice, in lullaby or hymn;
(The voice—O tender voices—memory’s loving voices!
Last miracle of all—O dearest mother’s, sister’s, voices;)
The rain, the growing corn, the breeze among the long-leav’d corn,
The measur’d sea-surf, beating on the sand,
The twittering bird, the hawk’s sharp scream,
The wild-fowl’s notes at night, as flying low, migrating north or south,
The psalm in the country church, or mid the clustering trees, the open air camp-meeting,
The fiddler in the tavern—the glee, the long-strung sailor-song,
The lowing cattle, bleating sheep—the crowing cock at dawn.

Anyway, that was a really good piece of music; if that is an example of Fetler's work than it is a true shame his stuff is not better known.

The second and third pieces of music for the evening were ones that featured the clarinet. The first was Debussy's Premiere Rhapsodie for Orchestra and Clarinet and the second was Carl Maria von Weber's Concertino for Clarinet and Orchestra, opus 26. They both featured a guest artist named Eli Eban on the clarinet. If we had a thread for clarinet gods, I would nominate him.

The second half of the concert was Beethoven's Fifth Symphony.

I got happy shivers when the orchestra let rip in the third movement.

Oh, I almost forgot to mention that Fetler, who is retired and living in Florida, flew up to attend the concert and to help give a preconcert lecture to ticket holders. I thought that was really cool.

Post by **sgt.null** » Mon Apr 24, 2006 6:46 am

someone Julie works with is a drummer for a c&w band local. we really need to hear some live music, its been since the rodeo. i keep looking for a band to come through houston, but nothing so far.

Post by **Warmark** » Thu Apr 27, 2006 4:29 pm

Just bought tickets to see Billy Talent at King Tuts in glasgow in July.

Website · Post by **The Somberlain** » Tue May 02, 2006 1:19 am

Just got back from seeing Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood (of Radiohead).

I'm possibly the happiest person on the planet.

I can't begin to describe how brilliant it was.

Post by **CovenantJr** » Thu May 04, 2006 9:29 pm

Tool is sold out. Damn.

Of course, I could pay waaaaaaaay over the odds on Ebay. Bloody touts.

Post by **Warmark** » Wed May 17, 2006 9:35 am

Warmark wrote:Just bought tickets to see Billy Talent at King Tuts in glasgow in July.

It now been moved to the Garage in Glasgow, for an unknown reason.

Post by **Warmark** » Fri May 19, 2006 10:35 pm

Warmark wrote:
Warmark wrote:Just bought tickets to see Billy Talent at King Tuts in glasgow in July.
It now been moved to the Garage in Glasgow, for an unknown reason.

Also Rueben are now supporting them, it just keeps getting better.

Post by **Cail** » Sat May 20, 2006 1:06 pm

Never Never (again) at the Fish Head.

Website · Post by **The Somberlain** » Sat May 20, 2006 3:58 pm

Radiohead, full band this time.
Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday.

I am exhausted, but pleased.

Three months until I see them again

Post by **stonemaybe** » Sun May 21, 2006 4:28 pm

I've seen a few people (apart from me

) on here mention Flogging Molly. They're playing a few dates in uk in July - Brum, Manc, Bristol, Brighton and London.
Anyone going?
I'm gonna do my damnedest to get to the brum gig.

Post by **CovenantJr** » Sun May 21, 2006 5:31 pm

I was at a Flogging Molly gig once, though I didn't listen to them. Drive Like You Stole It were on downstairs, and they were much better.

Saw a colleague's band last night. Pretty good. Seeing them again next sunday.

I've also got (another) performance by the Suffrajets coming up, this time in Peterborough. These girls seem to tour continuously.

Starting to get fidgety for seeing Iron Maiden in December.

Website · Post by **The Somberlain** » Sun May 21, 2006 6:32 pm

CovenantJr wrote: Drive Like You Stole It

I didn't think anyone had heard of these guys. It's a shame they split up. They had lots of promise, and they dedicated a song to me once

Post by **stonemaybe** » Fri Jun 02, 2006 11:57 am

Going to Wychwood festival later ( www.wychwoodfestival.com/ ) - Billy Bragg and Dreadzone tonight, can't wait!

Post by **stonemaybe** » Sat Jun 03, 2006 11:01 am

WOW! I recommend anyone with a chance goes to see Dreadzone - especially in a festival setting - they were wonderful.

Also Ian Maclachlan (?) from the Small Faces joined Billy Bragg and they did a fantastic version of Green Onions ("this song will knock racists flat from 500 yards!"

)

Website · Post by **The Somberlain** » Sat Jun 03, 2006 12:23 pm

I'm now going to see Polysics next month. I haven't heard much of them but it should be fun. Japanese electro-punk or something.

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