{"id":380,"date":"2004-04-05T06:57:14","date_gmt":"2004-04-05T10:57:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp\/2004\/04\/out_and_about_no_gore_please_w\/"},"modified":"2004-04-05T06:57:14","modified_gmt":"2004-04-05T10:57:14","slug":"out_and_about_no_gore_please_w","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/2004\/04\/out_and_about_no_gore_please_w\/","title":{"rendered":"OUT AND ABOUT: No Gore Please We&#8217;re British"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>4 April 2004, 7.30pm<BR><br \/>\nBarbican Hall, London<BR><br \/>\nELGAR: <B><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lso.co.uk\/performance\/barbican\/details.asp?perf=4%2F4%2F04&#038;d=4&#038;m=3&#038;y=1&#038;act=day&#038;pg=1\" target=\"_blank\">The Apostles<\/A><\/B><BR><br \/>\nLSO, Richard Hickox, conductor\u00a0<BR><br \/>\nJohn Mark Ainsley, St John\u00a0<BR><br \/>\nAlastair Miles, Judas\u00a0<BR><br \/>\nAlice Coote, Mary Magdalene<BR><br \/>\nClaire Rutter, Blessed Virgin\/Angel\u00a0<BR><br \/>\nTeddy Tahu Rhodes, St Peter\u00a0<BR><br \/>\nJames Rutherford, Jesus\u00a0(Brian)<BR><br \/>\nLondon Symphony Chorus<BR><BR><br \/>\nSeveral years ago in Chicago, Sara and I dropped in to hear the CSO even though we didn&#8217;t know the piece, Elgar&#8217;s FALSTAFF. I&#8217;m no big Barenboim fan, but it was an INCREDIBLE evening of music: he conducted without a score, which is dicey no matter how brilliant you are, and it was some of the most passionate and effective music-making I&#8217;d ever heard. We sat right on top of the orchestra, and it brought me a whole new appreciation of Elgar. One of those composers who, when done right, can be surpassing; done with only slightly less skill, seems somewhat lacking. So a new credo was born: never miss a chance to hear an Elgar piece live no matter how obscure &#8212; even if it means singers. <BR><BR><br \/>\nLast night at the Barbicon, situated conveniently near a tube station near my dorm, I heard THE APOSTLES, and consider it my substitute for seeing THE PASSION. It was glorious. I don&#8217;t know the piece, I don&#8217;t recognize any of the singers, and pretty sure I&#8217;ve never heard Hickox on tape or live. I simply closed my eyes and drifted off to the kind of heaven Schubert usually promises. Place was buzzing as well, so I congratulate myself for figuring out which concert to catch on a night off research. And it recharged my melodic batteries for weeks to come. Off to Liddypewl.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>4 April 2004, 7.30pm Barbican Hall, London ELGAR: The Apostles LSO, Richard Hickox, conductor\u00a0 John Mark Ainsley, St John\u00a0 Alastair Miles, Judas\u00a0 Alice Coote, Mary Magdalene Claire Rutter, Blessed Virgin\/Angel\u00a0 Teddy Tahu Rhodes, St Peter\u00a0 James Rutherford, Jesus\u00a0(Brian) London Symphony Chorus Several years ago in Chicago, Sara and I dropped in to hear the CSO [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-380","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}