More views on Haydn
Post categories: Denis McCaldin
| 10:40 AM, Monday, 22 June 2009
After time in Austria it was good to be back in Britain last week to conduct an all-Haydn concert with the Northern Chamber Orchestra & Lancaster Singers. The programme opened with the Te Deum and followed with The Storm, two pieces that feature as part of a film of a recent BBC Philharmonic concert directed by Graeme Kay for BBC Radio 3 interactive.
Because the project is a relatively new venture, it is still available on BBC iPlayer even though the concert took place more than seven days ago.
So I was very interested indeed to read Graeme's entry on The Radio 3 Blog about the filming of the concert in Manchester. He starts by talking about 'visual radio' and the whole question of whether we imagine better pictures listening to music than the ones which he and his colleagues can film in the venue itself. Later on he explains the logistics of making such a programme, which seem pretty formidable. Eight staff, including five camera operators, were involved, as well as 30 packing cases of equipment. If you're at all interested in the background on how these kind of programmes are made, I can strongly recommend Graeme's blog. Also on the Radio 3 blog is a post on visual radio by Abigail Appleton, Radio 3's head of speech and presentation.
Will 'visual radio' catch on? Who knows - but I think the idea has real potential for programmes like Radio 3's Discovering Music, where there is an element of analysis that could be useful educationally.
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I think that if classical music is going to reach a younger audience, Denis, something more interactive online makes eminent sense.
As you point out, the educational possibilities, for example, on 'Discovering Music', are exciting, but it need not be confined to advanced and graduate students.
There is no reason, in my view, why future generations might not be dancing in the street to the music of Joseph Haydn, just as previous generations have danced to Motown, Mozart and Madonna.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdvITn5cAVc
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See further information of all acitivities and projects of the Haydn Festival Eisenstadt on the new Haydnportal/Haydnnexus: www.haydnfestival.at with sites which contain a lot of music and scores etc. [Personal details removed by Moderator]
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I am Joseph Haydn, Professor McCaldin, and I am flattered that you, and your fellow bloggers, are championing classical music in the blogosphere two hundred years after my death.
We are all mortal, but the music we make sometimes reaches out towards immortality. As for HaydnEisenstadt, although your personal details have been removed by the Moderator, I know that you are not I, and that I am not you.
At the end of the eighteenth century, how could I have anticipated that my music would be broadcast online? Thank you, Professor McCaldin, for bringing so much of my music back to life in the twenty-first century. Thank you, BBC Radio 3, for championing our fragile civilisation to the modern world.
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