http://www.philly.com/dailynews/features/20080111_For_composer_Higdon__life_is_nicely_in_tune.html
There’s a Violin Concerto for Hilary Hahn and a Piano Concerto for Lang Lang, who had it for eight months and asked for 30 bars of revisions. Then, in a surprising development, he sent Higdon a message saying he just couldn’t do it.
“I asked Gary Graffman and Hugh Sung at Curtis if it was playable, and they both said yes. Hugh even said he would do the fingering and even play it, which I would have loved, though the National Symphony [which commissioned it] wanted a big name for publicity reasons. I really don’t know Lang’s reason [for declining], but Yuja Wang will premiere it with the National in 2009.”
ahahaha da zepp vil attempt to recuntztrut da Dongah memo az followz:
-tru i juz read thru it. dat mvmt1 coda iz a bit sheeeyat. plz rewrite it zo tiz mo
lyk two handz fightin!
What a loser; I had to learn a concerto for a friend of mine at Curtis (his graduation piece) in 6 days. Suck it up, LL.
ahahaha fuckkkkkkkk da WOOD a bit harzh!!
rezpec yo gensui but, da decizion makin procezz zhorly a bit different between u n da DONGAH i wud imagine
fo da DONGAH tiz a queztion of
m*zical content
fo da WOOD, a queztion of
rent
ahahaha fuckkkkkk da WOOD
out of rezpec i vil azzume u wuz zufficiently compenzated othahwize by yo cloze proximity wiz da jeff pozt
howevah, u muz alzo realize
da DONGAH
juz cant expect to be zimilahly motivated
tru; perhapz if he wuz paid in cheeseburgers…
And I hereby boycott Mont Blanc.
Da_Nor
June 5, 2008, 6:36pm
10
Y.Wang: I pwn you suckahhh!
what a fucking tool, but his attitude is not surprising since it’s not standard rep
i would like to see the score
so would i. higdon is a pretty respectable composer from what ive heard, and i would love to see it just to see what he supposedly cannot handle.
sponge
June 6, 2008, 8:10am
13
I’m very unfamiliar with Higdon, actually to the point where I had never heard of her. Is she an American composer?
…
google is your friend. but yes, higdon is american.
HAHAHAHAHA da final commentz
“tru tiz wikid to write fo ppl who crave yo SHEEYAT”
da DONGAH rejection leave a mark harzhly
but den derez alwayz hungry mofoz lyk da YUGA, DOC n da BRONTO etc lynin up to eat yo sheeyat, zo tru dun worry cheer up n rezpec
http://youtube.com/watch?v=HEmBhhHkylw
HAHAHAHAHA da final commentz
“tru tiz wikid to write fo ppl who crave yo SHEEYAT”
da DONGAH rejection leave a mark harzhly
but den derez alwayz hungry mofoz lyk da YUGA, DOC n da BRONTO etc lynin up to eat yo sheeyat, zo tru dun worry cheer up n rezpec
ur obzezzion wif da dongah iz unhealthy
zeek help
little known fact that is similar to this situation:
barber actually wrote his piano concerto with the idea that cliburn would play it. cliburn said no because at the time he only wanted to play standard rep. so, barber called browning instead and browning made his career playing it almost 1,000 times.
i see the same thing happening with suck suck (LL) and this piece, so good for yuja. she’ll probably play it alot with every major orchestra
Da_Nor
June 7, 2008, 12:48am
19
hmm daim… i have to look for composers with horrendous difficult piano concertos.
who premiered da Ligeti concerto btw?
Slapnutz:
little known fact that is similar to this situation:
barber actually wrote his piano concerto with the idea that cliburn would play it. cliburn said no because at the time he only wanted to play standard rep. so, barber called browning instead and browning made his career playing it almost 1,000 times.
i see the same thing happening with suck suck (LL) and this piece, so good for yuja. she’ll probably play it alot with every major orchestra
even if da Dongah retirez from da western zcene, he can ztill make a fortune by playin lyk a retarded in Asia.