Mirga, ready for the wall
mainNorman Perryman has produced a canvas of the Birmingham music director to go beside his portraits of her predecessors, Nelsons, Oramo and Rattle.
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It’s like a Mirga fan-site here !
Smearga
I sometimes wonder what an earlier conductor of the CBSO, Sir Adrian Boult, famously restrained in his gestures, would have said about Mirga’s exuberant style. The orchestra certainly seem to respond to it though and that’s what matters.
Sir Adrian, in his lifetime, sent private letters of encouragement and congratulation to each of his Birmingham successors upon their appointment. I expect he’d have said to her what he said to all of them: best wishes, and enjoy the superb Birmingham tap water.
I hope CBSO didn’t pay a fortune for this because it looks bugger all like Mirga
Sturmisch bewegt!
A perfect example of much ado about nothing
Inappropriate headline (again… sigh). It sounds like she is going to be shot at dawn. Or about to take part in a re-recording of a certain Pink Floyd album.
nice to see she gets a portrait appropriate to her stature as a conductor to be hung in such exalted company
Wow, she has long arms.
yes, the perspective and scale is all over the place, rather like her conducting imho…
Perry, man, you got the face all wrong: looks more like Barbara Hannigan than Mirga!
Songe d’une nuit du Sabbat
Max von Schillings
“Das Hexenlied”
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=aPEamWi8C54
I like the painting! Mirga has settled into the job, and the orchestra and audience like her – she can fill Symphony Hall when others can’t
No baby belly?
Good, she can hang that down the hall in one of the staff bathrooms where it belongs.
sorry, but these paintings are an insult to a great orchestra & its conductors; just terrible!
I really hate to join the ranks of the slippedisc belittlers but this is cringingly, embarrassingly bad. Sub ‘A’ level standard, perhaps scraping a GCSE pass. Even some of those famously-and rightfully, when it comes to their wonderful orchestra- enthusiastic Brummies of my acquaintance don’t like these. Yuk.