Mahler maestro waves a mini sparkler
UncategorizedI know it’s the silly season, but what could be sillier than this?
The ‘Blumine’ movement dumped by Gustav Mahler from his first symphony is played by the Nuremberg State Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Roland Böer – with a sparkler in his spare hand.
The audience wave sparklers in response.
What is that all about?
UPDATE:
The whole concert lasts almost three hours. Set in what is billed as Europe’s Greenest Open Air Concert Hall, Roland Böer, conductor and Roland Kunz, presenter discuss Blumine and the sparklers at 2 hours 1 minute and 51 seconds in German.
Creating an atmosphere when all the sparklers glow in the dark as the orchestra turn Mahler’s Blumine into a chilled classic hit. Not to everyone’s taste perhaps.
The things you have to do to get noticed these days…. Who’s the trumpeter? Beautiful playing!
“Tradition ist nicht die Anbetung der Asche, sondern die Weitergabe des Feuers.”
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It’s Mahler. Anything to avoid being bored to death.
Boer and Kunz.
Most apt….
At the Hollywood Bowl last week, they followed Richard Strauss’ “Also sprach Zarathustra” with an encore of the Blue Danube by the other Strauss, lots of sparklers and dancing in the audience. Gotta love these summer concerts.
I think this is the right answer! 😀 Summers concerts allow from some levity.
I think it’s rather beautiful in its effect.
People who think in TikTok fragments of time and aesthetics probably won’t agree.
But, does anyone who loves music really care about such people’s opinions?
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IMHO it is something that has been transplanted from pop concerts – If you attended concerts in 70s/80s you probably seen the lights come out at some point – specially during the ballads. It used to be lighters ( hence the cliche hand signature ) and sparklers, nowadays it is phone torches. And the poster that commented re: summer concerts is right. I’ve seen a video from YouTube from an orchestra playing the waltz from Shostakovich Jazz suite where the audience wave the sparklers… definitely a summer concert environment from the looks of it.
What could be sillier than this?
Well, previously there have been maestros who conducted with toothpicks, light sabers and fly swatters.
Let them do…let them be….it doesn’t make sense to try to make sense nowadays