Answers to the Slippedisc 2023 year-end quiz
Daily Comfort ZoneNobody seems to have got them all.
Here‘s the quiz.
And here are the answers:
1. https://slippedisc.com/2023/
Tim Bevan with Eric Fellner, and Hans Zimmer with Steven Kofsky
2. https://slippedisc.com/2023/
London’s Philharmonia Orchestra has chosen Mahler’s Resurrection Symphony as its second selfie. Big mistake.
3. https://slippedisc.com/2023/
Kaplan in the movie is made up – spectacles, hair – to resemble the late Gilbert E Kaplan, a financial publisher who made a second career conducting Mahler’s second symphony. It is a gratuitously nasty caricature
4. https://slippedisc.com/?s=
Opera Now and Opera News
5. https://slippedisc.com/2023/
Colette Maze at 109
6. https://slippedisc.com/2023/
The Hanover State Opera has taken disciplinary measures against its ballet director Marco Goecke, who smeared dog poo on the face of a journalist from the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.
7. https://slippedisc.com/2023/
Lorenzo Viotti
8. https://slippedisc.com/2022/
Angelina Jolie
9. https://slippedisc.com/2023/
Anne-Sophie Mutter
10. https://slippedisc.com/2023/08/last-chance-netrebko-files-suit-against-the-met/
Netrebko sues
11.https://slippedisc.com/
George II (in 1727) and Charles III (in 2023)
12 https://slippedisc.com/2023/
William Thomas
Oh, I thought you meant the amateur conductor Marin Alsop, who made a big fuss about the Tar movie. The powerful negative reaction to my comment makes me think that many must have thought the same.
“Amateur” conductor? Marin Alsop is a working conductor, holding at least one professional conducting position right now. She’s a professional conductor regardless of how you personally rate her skills. She didn’t make a bigger fuss than anyone else who was interviewed about the film.
I was a little confused, myself, as to why Bernstein’s children decided to publicly insert themselves into the Tar conversation with their op-eds to various NY publications. They were much less in a position to be commenting about Tar & their “fuss” was bigger & weirder than Alsop’s.
As for Mahler, in 2023 I heard:
Sinfonie Nr. 2 – Orchestra de Paris; Mäkelä
Sinfonie Nr. 3 – Utopia; Currentzis
Sinfonie Nr. 5 – RSO-Wien; Alsop (actually in late November 2022)
Sinfonie Nr. 6 – Česká filharmonie; Bychkov
Sinfonie Nr. 6 – Wiener Jeunesse Orchester; Stockhammer
Sinfonie Nr. 6 – Tonkünstler Orcheshester; Sado
Sinfonie Nr. 7 – Tonkünstler Orcheshester; Sado
Sinfonie Nr. 7 – Cleveland Orchestra; Möst
Best – Nr. 7 – Tonkünstler Orcheshester; Sado
Absolute Worst – Nr. 2 – Orchestre de Paris; Mäkelä
Runners-up for worst: Nr. 6 – Česká filharmonie; Bychkov / Nr. 5 – RSO-Wien; Alsop
In the coming months I am already booked for:
Sinfonie Nr. 1 – Concertgebouw; Gatti
Sinfonie Nr. 2 – Wiener Symphoniker; Altinoglu
Sinfonie Nr. 4 – RSO-Wien; Alsop
Sinfonie Nr. 9 – Tonkünstler Orcheshester; Sado
I’ve had a bunch of Lieder Cycles tossed in (Gerhaher is doing the „Rückert-Lieder“ as the opening act for an upcomng performance of „Also sprach Zarathustra“; Hampson did some Lieder before the Cleveland concert) so I am only missing Nr. 8 (for obvious reasons) and „Das Lied von der Erde“ (for which I had a ticket but stayed home to comfort a seriously ill cat).
While there’s no Mahler on the programme, I will hear the Mahler Chamber Orchestra in January and get my first live earful from Yuja Wang. Ballet tonight (van Manen, Forsythe, and Balanchine danced to Frank Martin, Leslie Stuck/Thom Willems, and Brahms/Schönberg).
I apologise to all readers and to the Tonkünstler Orchester Niederösterreich for mangling its name!
I also erred on the baritone who sang some Lieder at the Cleveland concert: Sir Simon Keenlyside, not Hampson!
13. Tchaikovsky’s 5th symphony