Valery Gergiev, Conductor

with Valery Gergiev
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on Friday, October 15, 2010 * * * * *

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Maestro Valery Gergiev discusses conducting Mussorgsky's 'Boris Gudnov' at the Metropolitan Opera and performing Mahler's symphonies at Carnegie Hall

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    1. blond_satyr  10/20/2010 05:18 AM Report

      ANSWER: (to the below question) St. Petersburg.

    2. blond_satyr  10/20/2010 04:58 AM Report

      QUESTION: When Valery Gergiev spoke of a new and or rebuilt "Opera House" that he is associated with, opening in 2012, where exactly is that to be? Yes, I am a bit confused, as he is associated with so many different companies. Thank you.

    3. benjablonski  10/19/2010 04:16 PM Report

      Abosolutely wonderful, he clearly loves what he does. I loved the story about Tchaikovsky and Stravinsky at the Marinsky

    4. REMant  10/18/2010 12:33 PM Report

      No disrespect, but it's the first I've heard of him as the savior of modern Russian music. There must be a couple dozen Shostakovich cycles, several by ppl who knew him, including his son. Stravinsky and Prokofiev have never been out of fashion, and Stravinsky, himself, recorded about everything he ever wrote. Gergiev does bring out a great deal of color in his interpretations and the digital media are a great boon.

      But CD sales are, of course, way down, for a variety of reasons, classical more than the rest. It has meant the demise of recording cos large and small, but there have been a lot of complaints against at least one company that has only gotten bigger as a result. Plus, the musicians want a larger slice of the proceeds, and to produce more recordings, particularly of live concerts. The response to the new media seems the same everywhere, produce more and more stuff, and do it as much as possible on demand - pretty much the opposite of the way things used to be.

      It's pretty difficult, BTW, to influence politics or culture with serialism. etc. Familiar classical music all rests one way or the other on popular music. That connection is clearly broken, and popular music has its own problems, as well.