Re: All day Stockhausen event in London this summer

On 22/4/08 23:22, in article
34ea3d17-dba3-44d6-933d-1d98a31decbe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Jerry
Kohl" <jeromekohl@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Apr 22, 10:36 am, BernardP <nospamqwerty...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 22/4/08 16:48, in article
17d6bb0a-cf90-4d1f-9832-c991bf271...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Jerry



Kohl" <jeromek...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Apr 22, 12:48 am, mark_stratfor...@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
all concert performances have used a fairly conventional stage layout.

Yes , like those photos (in the score) of a concert perf with trombone
soloist in traditional symphony orchestra layout.

Trombone? I'll have to go and look, but I thought the photos were of
the U Michigan Symphony Band with baritone horn soloist.

It cries out for the trick TV photography of "University Challenge"
and "Celebrity Squares" where opposing teams look like they're
vertically aligned.

Certainly a telecast or video could use split-screen effects to create
a vertical array, even when the performers are in conventional stage
seating, but it would take much flashier video magic to turn the band
into a proper face. By the time this level of manipulation is reached,
it would be much simpler just to make an animation of a face, with no
band at all. I think it is precisely the ease of sliding down this
route that made Stockhausen so adamently opposed to film and video
substitutions for physical stage effects.

Naturally I know that the concert performance will have neither the vertical
arrangement nor the "musicians' strike" ending that it enjoyed at La Scala,
but the theatrical concept of Luzifers Tanz is so imaginative that they
should erect the windband face 20 metres high facing the houses of
Parliament across the Thames, moving the London Eye Ferris Wheel if
necessary. As the face reaches its multi tempo grimacing climax and the
tongue pokes out, we hear the declaration "Salve Satanelli!" much as the
good old GLC managed twenty years before. (London Joke).

A little *more* than twenty years ago, I think (unless, like Lucifer
in Saturday from Light, they only feigned being terminated by Margaret
Thatcher in 1986, and rose from the tomb). And, yes, I believe that
the Thatcher government did regard them as a London Joke ;-)

And when local democracy was restored to London in 2000 the ex GLC leader
was voted back in as Mayor (after suffering only an "apparent" death?).

.

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