Favoriting A440 / Stochastic Hit Parade with Bethany Ryker: Playlist from September 29, 2020 Favoriting

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Favoriting September 29, 2020: A440, Op. 7, No. 3 Big Sky Edition - broadcasting from Bozeman, MT

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Artist Track Album Comments Approx. start time
Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji  Sequentia cyclica super "Dies irae" ex Missa pro defunctis, KSS 71: XX. Spiccato, leggiero (1949)   Favoriting   Jonathan Powell, piano - a recording of 8 hours 23 minutes. The score: 335 pages  0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Paul Whetstone  Pippi Goes Béla-Cycling, Suite 5 & 8   Favoriting   performed by Elaine Funaro, harpsichord  0:03:26 (Pop-up)
Györgi Ligeti  Artikulation (1958)   Favoriting     0:12:12 (Pop-up)
Erik Lund  Dalla linea dell'arco che esse formano: I. Articulato e preciso (1999)   Favoriting By the Line of Arc That They Form  Arditti Quartet  0:15:25 (Pop-up)
Sergei Prokofiev  Symphony No. 2 in D Minor, I. Allegro ben articolato (1925)   Favoriting   Vladimir Ashkenazy conducting the Sydney Symphony Orchestra  0:30:28 (Pop-up)
Sebastian Currier  FLEX, IV. Echoes, Canons and a Minuet, VI. Group Dynamics (2015)   Favoriting   From the composer: "I called the piece FLEX in appreciation of the superhuman control and virtuosity of the modern instrumental player and the superhuman coordination of 70 plus individuals, with a conductor at the helm, coming together to form what we call an 'orchestra.' ”  0:44:20 (Pop-up)
Benedict Mason  String Quartet No. 2: Quiet Heterophony - Col Legno - Vertical Spiccato (1993)   Favoriting     0:56:17 (Pop-up)


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Listener comments!

  8:01pm
bLeubomber:

Bonjour Mlle Bethany.
  8:02pm
Adam-12:

'Stochastic hit parade'
anagrams to
'This acid catastrophe.'
Avatar ♥ 8:02pm
TDK60:

Hi Bethany. Yikes, 8.23 hrs eh?
  8:02pm
bunyan:

Well, howdy, ma'am! Say BIG enough fer ya?
Avatar ♥ 8:02pm
spodiodi:

aloha, Bethany
  8:03pm
TGinNJ:

Never get to listen to A440 live, this is awesome! Thank You Bethany for all you do!
  8:03pm
bunyan:

*sky
Avatar 8:04pm
Deborah:

Yes! So apt for grading essays that go on way longer than 8:23.
Avatar ♥ 8:04pm
slugluv1313:

greetings, Bethany and Skeleton Crew and Everyone!
Big Sky -- cool!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:05pm
Ignatatus666:

I listen on the archives mostly because I’m off Tuesday nights and mentally pre occupied unlike now
No that’s not true
I got lucky and am tuned in
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:08pm
West Trenton Vinnie:

Just had a moment - been a WEEK since last show!? Feels like I never left! Greetings from Lyons, CO
Avatar ♥ 8:10pm
spodiodi:

had a great time at a wedding in Estes Park a few years ago
Avatar ♥ 8:10pm
spodiodi:

i love that Pipi track, and bookmarked a relevant search to hear more of it
  8:10pm
TGinNJ:

A440 on tour!?
Avatar 8:17pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

Came for the blips, stayed for the bloops
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:17pm
WR:

Tips ushers, slide into a seat at the back.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:26pm
Scott Williams:

Hi Bethany! Happy to be here listening & skeletoning
Avatar ♥ 8:27pm
spodiodi:

yay, Scott Williams! yay, Kenzo!
thanks, guys!
Avatar 8:27pm
Banoonu:

big up scott and kenzo
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:27pm
mariano:

Yaaay Scott and Kenzo! And hi Bethany, Scott, folks :)
  8:30pm
lazy rider:

From the vast American Wilderness that is Liberty Park, QUEENS, USandA, HELLO!!
Avatar 8:33pm
Banoonu:

"The piece was premiered in Paris on June 6, 1925, conducted by its dedicatee Serge Koussevitzky, and was not well received. After the premiere, Prokofiev commented that neither he nor the audience understood the piece. In a letter to Nikolai Myaskovsky, Prokofiev wrote: I have made the music so complex to such an extent that when I listen to it myself I do not fathom its essence, so what can I ask of others?

Prokofiev later said that this symphony led him to have doubts about his ability as a composer for the first time in his life."

poor guy, sounds great to me
  8:34pm
Listener Robert:

As Peter Schickele quoted Basie, "If it sounds good, it is good."
Avatar 8:34pm
Bethany Ryker:

I'm with you @Banoonu! Good thing that the 2nd Symphony didn't stop him, and he gave us five more!
Avatar ♥ 8:35pm
slugluv1313:

@Banoonu -- agreed, this is GORGEOUS!
  8:35pm
Listener Robert:

Besides, by 1925 audiences would've been used to this sort of thing -- well before that, in fact.
Avatar ♥ 8:37pm
spodiodi:

Scott & Kenzo, i forgot to welcome you both back, last i sawr you both. Welcome back! (Kenzo, i made a small discovery 2 nights ago, during Kellen303's show that may lead to an equally small solution worth your time. will get it together and email ya.)
Avatar 8:40pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

I will delight at your email, spodiodi
Avatar ♥ 8:40pm
spodiodi:

\m/
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:40pm
John from NP:

#Tanglewood (Koussevitzky)
Avatar 8:42pm
jeffg:

Did the pledge counter just reset? Could've sworn it said 7% a minute ago.
  8:42pm
Listener Robert:

OK, maybe I misjudged by "survivor effect" how acceptable such pieces were.
  8:49pm
bunyan:

Prokofiev wrote that just about when Copland wrote his Symphony for Organ and Orchestra, which also didn't sit well with reviewers. I wonder if there may also have been an issue with the performance. Many of these works that we've gotten comfortable with were serious challenges for orchestras of the '20s and '30s.
Avatar 8:52pm
Bethany Ryker:

Interesting thought, @bunyan, I agree that the technical demands on orchestra players have definitely increased in the past century for sure
  8:55pm
bLeubomber:

That was absolutely beautiful.
  8:56pm
bunyan:

I was thinking of a discussion I heard recently of Copland's "Short" Symphony (1932) which was apparently somewhat beyond the capacity of contemporary performers. It was into the '60s when Copland was surprised that that anyone was taking it on then, recalling that it had been so difficult.
Avatar ♥ 8:58pm
spodiodi:

thank you, Bethany!
nice pieces tonight, as always
Avatar ♥ 8:58pm
TDK60:

Thanks Bethany, Scott.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:58pm
listener 126464:

Thanks Bethany, thanks Scott.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:58pm
mariano:

Thanks Bethany and Scott, bye everyone!
  8:58pm
TGinNJ:

Thank You Bethany, enjoy the rest of your tour, grazie to the skeleton crew!
(this show needs to be at least another hour longer, 1 hour is not enough. )
  8:58pm
Dean:

Thank you for the Sorabji. Sorry I missed it. Been meaning to acquire that Powell.
Avatar 8:59pm
Banoonu:

thank you so much for the music!
  8:59pm
Listener Robert:

Yay!
  9:00pm
Zetti:

Thank you
  9:00pm
bLeubomber:

Mlle Bethany. Beautiful musical evening in Big Sky country stay safe & healthy
  9:00pm
bunyan:

Thank you to all involved once again for the "difficult listening (and performing)"...
Avatar ♥ 9:02pm
slugluv1313:

beautiful show, Bethany -- thanks so much!
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