{"id":13764,"date":"2014-08-08T10:16:47","date_gmt":"2014-08-08T15:16:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.berkshirelinks.com\/?p=13764"},"modified":"2014-08-08T10:16:47","modified_gmt":"2014-08-08T15:16:47","slug":"verdi-tanglewood-july-27-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/verdi-tanglewood-july-27-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Verdi delights at Tanglewood July 27, 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Verdi delights at Tanglewood July 27, 2014<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n

Article by Dave Read<\/a><\/p>\n

When I organized my Tanglewood calendar, the chief reason I selected this program was because it featured the Tanglewood Festival Chorus<\/a> (TFC), which I have come to know and enjoy by way of their annual appearance on the season finale program of Beethoven’s<\/strong> Symphony No. 9<\/em>. And so the TFC is associated with the solemn feelings engendered by that work, all that heavy stuff about eternal brotherhood. <\/p>\n

\"BSO<\/a>But instead of getting a profundity fix today, a giant glowing happy face got slapped on my soul! You would think something called Va, pensiero (Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves)<\/em> would be doleful, melancholy, yet it had the opposite effect on me. Preceded by the Overture to Nabucco<\/em>, which includes melodies from it, Va, pensiero<\/em> was as thoroughly satisfying as any musical performance I’ve attended. Whatever Giuseppe Verdi<\/strong> (1813-1901) was intending to convey, joy was what I felt.<\/p>\n

This performance had such an immediate and sustained effect on me that I began to suspect that I had heard it over and over a lifetime ago, as if Joy had been inculcated while these melodies looped – had been embedded in me like treachery had been in the Manchurian candidate<\/em>!<\/p>\n

Triumphal Scene (Act II, scene 2) from Aida<\/h2>\n

Of course what followed was more of the same, the Triumphal Scene (Act II, scene 2) from Aida<\/em> which Verdi composed some thirty years later. If I hadn’t just heard Va, pensiero<\/em>, I may well have had a similarly ecstatic response to these selections from Aida. As it happened, a wonderful afternoon just got even better. Representing less than one-fifth of Aida, the Triumphal Scene nevertheless delivers a full measure of enjoyment, and even in today’s concert setting, was visually appealing, trios of trumpeters flanking the orchestra.<\/p>\n

Conductor Jacques Lacombe and pianist Gabriela Montero<\/h2>\n

Opening the program, which was conducted by Canadian Jacques Lacombe<\/strong> in his BSO and Tanglewood debuts, Rachmaninoff’s<\/strong> Piano Concerto No. 2<\/em>, with soloist Venezuelan-American pianist Gabriela Montero<\/strong>. Marked by familiar melodies, we listened to it while the strolling the lawn, the better to enjoy the singular Tanglewood experience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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