2009-10 season - what are you excited about?

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Permalink Reply by Brad Justice on August 26, 2009 at 8:27am

I guess that my wife and I are at the other end of the spectrum - we go for the concerts that feature music after 1920 (OK, 1910).

A friend of ours, lover of contemporary music, points to the programming practice of coupling modern music with something from the 19th century. He says "we must all suffer equally".

For me this year: Stravinsky (both common and rare), the Ives "Concord Symphony", the Adams, and a chance to explore Benjamin.

Wish list for 2010 - 2011: more Adams - for me he has grown in recent years. More Harrison - he has been absent from the concert hall since his death. More Ligeti - he is a recent obsession of mine, and for me his Requiem was the highlight of the last season.

Ron Borden said:

I'm excited about all the concerts which contain no music written after 1920. My patronage various proportionately with the number of concerts in this category. I hope MTT reads this post!

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Permalink Reply by Andrea Trave on September 3, 2009 at 10:16pm

I find myself on the "modern side" too, as I typically look forward to performances of modern and contemporary works. Ligeti's Requiem was also for me the highlight of last season, and I was glad to see that a good part of the audience had a positive reaction of awe and amazement for it (it also helped the same concert featured the divine Martha playing Ravel!)

As for this year, I am looking forward to Charles Dutoit conducting The Planets, the all-Rachmaninov concert conducted by the great Semyon Bychkov, and the gorgeous Lyric Symphony by Zemlinsky (too bad I am not particularly a fan of conductor Eschenbach: couldn't they re-invite Salonen?). MTT's Mahler 5th would be great, if they did not perform it already in two of the recent seasons. Why not play again the Sixth, the first one to have been recorded, which I missed because not leaving in SF yet?

Brad Justice said:

I guess that my wife and I are at the other end of the spectrum - we go for the concerts that feature music after 1920 (OK, 1910).

A friend of ours, lover of contemporary music, points to the programming practice of coupling modern music with something from the 19th century. He says "we must all suffer equally".

For me this year: Stravinsky (both common and rare), the Ives "Concord Symphony", the Adams, and a chance to explore Benjamin.

Wish list for 2010 - 2011: more Adams - for me he has grown in recent years. More Harrison - he has been absent from the concert hall since his death. More Ligeti - he is a recent obsession of mine, and for me his Requiem was the highlight of the last season.

Ron Borden said:

I'm excited about all the concerts which contain no music written after 1920. My patronage various proportionately with the number of concerts in this category. I hope MTT reads this post!

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Permalink Reply by MaHoli on October 6, 2009 at 11:34am

The two weeks of YoYo Ma in residence. Since this is a Project just started last year, it is still not quite known by Symphony subscribers, but last year Lang Lang (not my preference) was in residence and it was quite interesting to hear him talk to the audience of the various approaches that an artist takes with his/her interpretations on music. Yo Yo Ma is my all time FAVORITE musician with his brilliance and beautiful sound from the cello.

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