Sir Peter Maxwell Davies on his Tenth Symphony
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- čas přidán 8. 01. 2014
- Watch Sir Peter Maxwell Davies discussing his Tenth Symphony. Available to order from LSO Live bit.ly/1Hbbm6q, download from iTunes geni.us/46Zt, or listen on Apple Music geni.us/48li
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Good for him. He beat the curse of the 9th!
There is no such thing as the "curse" of the ninth! I have composed 44 Symphonies - so there!
@@howardmcclellan6344 Damn, bro. May I see/hear one?
it's weird watching this, it's hard. i'm new to grieving.. but it's really great to see properly alive again and not just remembering how weak he was toward the end..
We are still grateful for Reel of Spindrift, Sky, which he wrote for us in 2011
www.schott-music.com/news/archive/show,6256.html
Wishing you every success and a long life to come, with love from the National Youth Orchestra of Iraq xxx
As a tribute to Max's landmark year, I've republished 4 of his essays on music which he wrote back in the 90s: 21stcenturyconductor.blogspot.co.at/2014/02/sir-peter-maxwell-davies-tribute_2.html
Saw the cool stuff you did in Iraq. Seems forever since we sat watching Max rehearse his 7th at Maida Vale. Hope you are well, what is going on with Max's website - they should be promoting his concerts and Music more not less - there has been no updates since he died. Take care.
Very powerful and effective work. Tortured and emotional throughout, and yet, it ends on a note of acceptance and contentment. Not to mention:
1) Davies survived Leukemia and was able to write this as a result.
2) The work is about an Italian architect who was dying when he wrote some of the text that Davies set to music.
3) This was Davies last symphony and he died shortly after writing it.
Well, two years after writing it... ;-)
Haha! Yes, "shortly" was a relative term. Seemed more poetic to keep it vague. :)
Indeed. Much was made at the time of how he beat leukaemia to finish the symphony. The 10th wasn't his actual last work though. We premiered his last opera The Hogboon three months after he died, in June 2016.
Always loved the LSO since I was a kid. Greetings from New York!
Where has Max's website Maxopus gone please? I can't find it, when I spoke to him in January before he died, he said he had insisted it was kept going when he was gone, was a brilliant website, used to use it for my composition students, had loads of cool resources on it and audio.