Fuck… I wanted to attend live concertos of a few pieces for some years now, but nobody playz it… Every year there are at least 5 performances of Beethoven PC 5, Rocky 3, Tchaik PC 1, dozens of Apassionata, Pimp Zon, Chop Zon 2+3 performances etc. within 30km of where I live.
But… I’ve been waiting for performances of Barber PC or Prick PC 2 or Busoni PC or Rzewski’s Mofos united and many other gensui pieces for many years now. I’d travel 100s of km and spend 100s of Euros for them, but ztill nobody plays them…
i absolutely agree with you. it’s the reason i don’t go to many concerts.
randomly i saw a poster today for a concert with le festin on it (but the concert had passed).
how about kissin playing rzewski de profundus?
or lang lang playing busoni concerto?
but seriously, it would be great to hear some of these guys try to make some history here, instead of repeating it. i’d like to hear volodos play the alkan concerto. that would be a fucking event - even if you don’t like volodos, like me.
u have to undahztand that [color=yellow]in general mofoz iz willing to pay for da inztead of prok or kan.
likevize, ticketz iz likely to be sold out if da tchai pc, schumann, rocky conz…etc iz being unleashed. that said, it depends on da pianiz.
we live in da capitalist world. eventually, it’z all down to money, so i dont have any sheeyat against that. if i were a pianist, i’d rather play repetitive sheeyat and have a sold out ticket or cloze than play lesser known pieces or sheeyat that public rarely givez a sheeyat with 1/2 empty hall. truzt me, when u walk into da hall and u see empty spot every other seat, the gensui atmosphere iz gone.
but a lot of these guys have garnered such a following, and such public adoration, that they could program something furious and “unusual” and people would still go.
how much do you think general audiences go to hear specific music, and how much do they go to hear the specific performer? it seems to me that they go for the performer. someone enlighten me if i’m off here.
Let us just face it; da normal concert audience wouldn’t even what da chop valses sounds leik,dey juzz want beautifull classical music, play whatever you like, as long as the music is somehow tonal they will like it. If it iz a-tonal or very dizzonant diz may be a problem, n u may reconsidah if diz rep iz bezt suited foh a special feztival leik a contemporary music fezt sheeyat. Mah parents who leik classical music, but never listens to it regurally find Alkan to be as beautifull as anything else, dey dun care if it is mainstream oh not. Neither will da normal concert audience.
I am sure n audience vill find a random prog(*) played gud as interesting as a mainstream prog(+) played gud