Hello, my name is Cooper, and I’ve been an Idol watcher for two years now…
Tuesday February 26 2008
Yes, I’ll admit it. I like watching American Idol.
I think there’s a lot to learn from the critique of the judges, and whether he’s mean or not, Simon is very often quite accurate in his assessments.
Normally I try not to deviate from oboe talk, but—
HOT… darn! THAT… DAVID… ARCHULETA… KID… IS A MONSTER…!!!
Besides being ridiculously naturally talented, there’s two things that strikes me. During the L.A. week, he said how much he loved the song Heaven and dreamed of singing it. Last night, when he sang John Lennon’s Imagine, when Randy asked why he sang the verse that he did, he said “Because I like the message of it.” It got me thinking; Do us as musicians put messages to our music?
While rehearsing the Reinecke trio this morning, on the last movement, the horn professor Lydia Van Dreel said, “This piece is just like a little girl with pigtails prancing through the flower fields, and here’s where the parents (the horn and oboe) come in and tell her to do something she doesn’t want to do.” It made perfect sense, and helped me play it better.
Previously, Patty left some words for me to think about while playing the Brahms Violin concerto. Unfortunately, they just make me laugh rather than playing better, but at least they remind me not to take any music, whether Brahms or Mozart, too seriously.
bautbois
Feb 27, 2008
there is a lot of mediocrity there, but by the same token it makes you realize how rare true talent is! after all, they screen like 10,000 people just to come up with the final few. but there’s always a handful of really great performances - i’m thinking of Fantasia’s “Summertime” a few years ago - that was amazing and authentic. Archuleta’s “Imagine” was another. reminds me of the close relationship between the solo concerto format and opera - albinoni’s wife was a diva, so you play the d minor concerto like a diva, esp. the 2nd movement! does music need a message? i don’t think it needs to be programmatic because the language of music has its own validity, sidestepping the intermediation of spoken words. “i don’t hear any words, but i know exactly what you mean”.
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Jan 24, 2010
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Feb 26, 2008
Yeah, well, I realized after I gave up on it that I missed Archuleta and he’s the only one I had any hope for. The rest are so “meh” it’s sad. I’m picky, I know.
Simon is the only one there who states the truth. He’s unkind, but that’s his schtick. (sp?) Without that he’d be nobody. Paula is just embarrassing. Randy is ... well ... Dawg, he’s fun but whatever.
Anyway, I get fed up with mediocrity. I’d like to see a show with better singers. Then I wouldn’t get so annoyed! Of course the whole posturing thing isn’t me either ... it’s so much like a vocal thing to be that way. We instrumentalists are more “whatcha see is whatcha get” it seems.
But maybe I’m just a snob!?
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