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For some reason, I thought you had heard it...

Posted by: garyd 05:39 pm EDT 03/16/14
In reply to: re: Jason Robert Brown should have adapted BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN instead of BRIDGES... - AlanScott 05:29 pm EDT 03/16/14

I thought I had posted the webcast sight here and we discussed it but I guess not. We saw it opening night. I admit I am not a fan of his style of music but I found this to be particularly dry.

Link http://www.medici.tv/#!/brokeback-mountain-wuorinen-teatro-real-madrid-titus-engel-ivo-van-hove

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Posted by: AlanScott 06:41 pm EDT 03/16/14
In reply to: For some reason, I thought you had heard it... - garyd 05:39 pm EDT 03/16/14

Someone posted the webcast here and we did discuss it.

I thought it was terrific. Sorry that you didn't like it more. But I presume you didn't make the trip primarily to see it (although perhaps you did).


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Posted by: garyd 01:05 pm EDT 03/17/14
In reply to: re: For some reason, I thought you had heard it... - AlanScott 06:41 pm EDT 03/16/14

I think I posted the webcast but I could be wrong. Others may have as well.

The main reason for the trip was to visit my son and his family but we timed this one to specifically coincide with the premier of the opera.
The score seems to emphasize the inevitable doom of the characters, their situation, the oppressive nature of the society in which they live and the ever present danger to them posed by that society and the physical environment. While appropriate, it does so at the expense of allowing the audience to “feel” or experience the romance that is kindled during the idyll on the mountain. While Ennis and Jack do not necessarily recognize this, ,the audience should (and does in both the novella and the film). The score also misses the opportunity to musicalize some of Proulx’s exquisite imagery from the novella. I think this is a mistake.
I try, not always successfully, to not criticize that which I do not understand so I am always a bit reticent to voice an opinion about atonal, serial, twelve tone, composition. However, most of it strikes me as an esoteric exercise in fractals and mathematical theory. My problem due to my ignorance I suppose.


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