tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-86241233443884802542007-07-26T20:04:00.000+01:002007-07-26T20:04:00.000+01:00"I keep hoping that a performance of the amazing Repons will take place in the US so I can easily afford to travel to hear it but it's obviously very complicated to do in a live situation." ...<BR/><BR/>Henry, where were you in March or April 1986 when Boulez mounted Repons in the Columbia University gymnasium in New York City? And someone correct me if I am wrong, but I thought that there was an additional performance of Repons, here State-side, two or so years ago.<BR/><BR/>I recall thinking long and hard in 1986, and then intentionally not going up to Columbia to hear Boulez and Repons because I was saving money for a trip to London for the Birtwistle and Zinovieff's Mask of Orpheus premiere that late May. I recall being happy to have caught a BBC broadcast of Repons (with Peter Eotvos?) one night that fortnight while sitting in my room and borrowing my composer friend's new mini-FM radio and earplugs. On my own mini-cassette player, I listened repeatedly that week to Birtwistle's Earth Dances; which the engraver at Universal Editions, in London, dubbed for me in their basement. (This past month I finally purchased the revised 2001 score to Earth Dances.)<BR/><BR/>Leonard Slatkin led Rituel, in Washington, along with Rihm's Inschrift, and Saariaho's Nymphea Reflection. Slatkin seems/seemed to prefer to conduct a little complex European music, but less complex, often populist American music. Some NSO players who I spoke with very much enjoyed playing this European contemporary music.Garth Trinklhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11084463787729969177noreply@blogger.com