The South Dakota Symphony willgive the first performance this Saturday of a Covid-reflective work titled Already Yesterday or Still Tomorrow.
It’s by the New York-based journalist and composer, Frank J Oteri.
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I was wondering who’d be the first to jump on this particular bandwagon…
Not the first. The Wuhan Philharmonic presented Ye Zou’s choral symphony “To 2020” which had its world premiere at the Beijing Music Festival in October.
Unlike many people, I want to escape the world through the arts, and not be reminded of the sick ugly PC world we live in.
Just how is a work reflective of COVID “PC”? To politicize the pandemic, as right-wingers often do for some reason, is a really shockingly stupid thing to do.
O dear!
“Social Distancing,” by OZNO (James Boznos) has already been performed several times in Hong Kong. It’s an outstanding work.
Here it is:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1M3wXRSe7A
I thought Leif Segerstam was first off the mark on a COVID symphony, last year. Admittedly, it was a very brief work, if I recall correctly. Will Oteri’s work be available for streaming at some point?
There was also Tchaikovsky’s 7th (not Boris, not Peter)
It will be live streamed Sunday 24 January. http://www.sdsymphony.org/210124-2021/?fbclid=IwAR24gq9P7mVzTYr9vQHYfNuJ4lmCHldY6bMUdYFfzQ_r8JiLS5ge3MthLHo#.YAv1bpNKjUJ
Segerstam had the first Corona-Symphony.
Dear mr. Oteri, we all suffer in these difficult times. In a couple of weeks, after the vaccination, hair dressers will reopen!
Making fun of people’s looks – how hilarious and witty. I didn’t realize 12-year-olds were interested in this site.
Opera fans should branch out to Covid Fan Tutte by Finnish National Opera…
over 400 classical compositions with the word corona in the title. Time to resuscitate some of them.
Let’s start with ‘ Corona Carminum Sacrorum’ by Arthur Lourie (1892-1966)