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French maestro conductor Georges Pretre dies at 92
The Daily Star ^
| January 4, 2017
| Agence France Presse
Posted on 01/04/2017 11:58:07 AM PST by EveningStar
French maestro Georges Pretre, who regularly conducted the renowned Vienna Symphony Orchestra, died Wednesday aged 92, the Austrian capital's Philharmonic society said.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: chat; classicalmusic; conductor; georgespretre; obituary; opera
To: Borges
To: EveningStar
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01/04/2017 12:01:51 PM PST
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GOP Poet
To: EveningStar; SaveFerris; PROCON; FredZarguna; mylife; Lil Flower; Corky Ramirez; CopperTop; ...
Maestro?
Well, I mean don’t you think that he was probably called Maestro while he was conducting, not in social situations?
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Seriously, RIP.
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01/04/2017 12:05:19 PM PST
by
Gamecock
(Gun owner. Christian. Pro-American. Pro Law and Order. I am in the https:// basket of deplorables.)
To: EveningStar
Wow, I assumed he had already died. Some conductors live for a very long time.
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01/04/2017 12:15:22 PM PST
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Sans-Culotte
(Time to get the US out of the UN and the UN out of the US!)
To: EveningStar
As a general rule I conduct with one hand, that way I can be a semiconductor. I also do it while snorkeling, that way I can be a coral conductor.
Seriously, Prêtre conducted with a light touch in an era when conductors tended to try to control orchestras with an iron fist. His love of Debussy, and the way he would evoke the music's emotion out of the performers, can be seen here. RIP, maestro.
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posted on
01/04/2017 12:59:10 PM PST
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chajin
("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
To: Sans-Culotte
I have read that orchestra conductors tend to live years longer than the average of their homeland.
Keeping your hands elevated is a good cardio exercise.
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01/04/2017 12:59:42 PM PST
by
DUMBGRUNT
(Go Trump!)
To: Sans-Culotte
About two years ago Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos was conducting the National Symphony Orchestra in
El Amor Brujo. We were sitting on the parterre level near the orchestra when one of the cellists suddenly ran off the stage. A few seconds later, the conductor fell off the podium and collapsed into the arms of some nimble second violinists. He took a few moments to recover and finished the concert which included
The Pines of Rome sitting on a chair. This proved to be his last concert and he died a few months later.
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01/04/2017 1:17:46 PM PST
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PUGACHEV
To: PUGACHEV
I guess the cellist must have noticed that Frühbeck de Burgos was about to collapse. Good that he was able to finish, unlike poor Giuseppe Sinopoli who died backstage after collapsing with a heart attack.
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01/04/2017 1:26:25 PM PST
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Sans-Culotte
(Time to get the US out of the UN and the UN out of the US!)
To: EveningStar
To: Gamecock
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01/04/2017 3:04:25 PM PST
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FredZarguna
(And what Rough Beast, Its hour come 'round at last slouches toward Fifth Avenue to be born?)
To: chajin
conductors tended to try to control orchestras with an iron fist. Many did so out of anger: they were thermal conductors.
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01/04/2017 3:06:49 PM PST
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FredZarguna
(And what Rough Beast, Its hour come 'round at last slouches toward Fifth Avenue to be born?)
To: EveningStar
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01/04/2017 3:14:07 PM PST
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