Alex Yates

Speaking of the IAJE Dave? Yes, the line up is quite impressive. Make your meals count. Get a good breakfast!

I am afraid Manny and I derailed this solemn thread a bit by mixing it up with the breakfast thread. Back to being solemn for this one. I like torturing myself so I watched the video three times and cried my eyes out all three times. I visited that place two months after it happened and it was still smoldering with WTC wreckage all about. That video brought it all back.

trumpetmike

It was the second time that Adams' piece had been dropped from the Last night, the first time being the year Princess Diana was killed in Paris.


On the night of the performance that Manny linked to, I was attending Proms in the Park (in London). The atmosphere during this piece was truly incredible - for most of the concert there had been an undercurrent of chat as people watched the concert on the giant screen, for this one there was absolute silence. You couldn't even hear the noise of traffic, nor the birdcalls that one would expect in a park.
The group of people next to where I was included a couple of Americans and seeing their reaction to the music was very moving.

40cal

Speaking of Adams' Short Ride, didn't the Minnesota Orchestra drop that piece immediately after 9/11 and play Elgar?

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Manny Laureano

Geez, I don't remember changing the program from that week, Cal. If we played the Barber it would have been in addition to not in place of. But my memory is not infallible, so, maybe you're right.

ML

(Trumpet)(2009)

A beautiful tribute.

40cal

I just turned 33 so my memory may be failing me I thought the opener was the national anthem, then Nimrod from Elgar's Enigma variations instead of the Adams.....

I'll ask my better half, she has a much better mind than I.

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Manny Laureano

Ahh, Elgar... that's starting to ring a bell now. You may well be right.

Tmike,

When the MO first went to europe, Eiji played the Nimord variation as one of our encores. It was not too long after Lady Diana had died and the Elgar as a tribute piece was still quite fresh in the minds of the concertgoers. As you know, many of the halls we play in Europe have the audience seated right behind us and I can tell you that I was moved by the emotion shown by the Brits when they realized what we were playing.

There was quite a bit of stifled sniffling among the people behind us, especially at Leeds, where the audience is literally right on top of you. It made me a little sad to know their hearts felt such loss but it made me feel better to know that our playing that piece served as a bit of catharsis for them.

I felt the same the day I drove in to work and heard a British band playing the Star Spangled Banner for us after the towers fell. Amazing... my eyes still mist over when think of that simple, brotherly gesture on your parts. So, thanks... that sort of thing means more than most people understand, I think.

ML

Clarino

That was one of the Guards Bands outside Buckingham Palace, if memory serves. I was quite proud in that moment, it makes me a little misty-eyed to think of it too.

I didn't realise you'd been to Leeds. That's within striking distance of me, if I'd known you then and known you were coming, I'd have been there!

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rjzeller

Slatkin has always been one of my favorite conductors. He seems to always be perfectly tuned into the emotion of a piece (his guest work years ago with the MO was simply outstanding).

This kinda reminds me of a touching tribute U2 did using their music "Peace on Earth." I'll have to post it if I can find it again....

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