{"id":48,"date":"2011-03-28T21:06:54","date_gmt":"2011-03-28T21:06:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/texas\/?p=48"},"modified":"2011-04-14T21:06:03","modified_gmt":"2011-04-14T21:06:03","slug":"watching-tone-poems-in-houston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/texas\/2011\/03\/watching-tone-poems-in-houston\/","title":{"rendered":"Watching Tone Poems in Houston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Before moving to Houston, Sound and Vision&#8221; suggested to me David Bowie&#8217;s flashy 1990 tour, the name taken from one of my favorite tracks on his legendary <em>Low<\/em>. But now the phrase reminds me more of Houston Symphony, with its ongoing Sound Plus Vision&#8221; series.<\/p>\n<p>During the 24 years that\u00a0I lived in Boston, I don&#8217;t recall ever seeing visual projections at Symphony Hall. I suppose it would have been unthinkable to that conservative crowd, comfortably frowning in those hard leather seats. Houston Symphony made a big splash last year with <em>The Planets \u00e2\u20ac\u201c An HD Odyssey<\/em>, just before I moved to town, and I was curious but nonetheless cautious. A concert hall is still nearly sacred territory for me, never to be confused with the IMAX arena. If I was going to look at something while listening, it would more likely be a practice score. Now that I&#8217;m going regularly to Houston Symphony, however, \u00a0it was inevitable that I would\u00a0find myself at a Sound Plus Vision&#8221; concert. The experience on Saturday night was more than favorable, at times even\u00a0exhilarating, and in supremely good taste.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps it was the all-Richard Strauss program, perfect in length and arranged to give the listener just the right amount of\u00a0variety. Up until now, I&#8217;ve thought of conductor Hans Graf as confident but sedate, as if he&#8217;s always holding back a bit. Within the first minute of his rousing <em>Don Juan, Opus 20<\/em>, however, it was evident that his mood was different that night. He was inspired in a non-intellectual way, truly passionate about this particular score, which it seems he knows like the back of his sweeping hand.<\/p>\n<p>His enthusiasm carried through to the players, who turned that brilliant tone poem into a roller-coaster of sex, death and transfiguration. Oh wait, that&#8217;s Opus 24, isn&#8217;t it? No transfiguration yet, but <em>Don Juan <\/em>is still 18 minutes of euphoria, disguised as one long harmonic downbeat. Oh, how those French horns gleamed like the Rhine-gold! Graf danced his way through the score. Watching him and listening, suddenly I had a strange impression. I felt that I was somehow in his body and standing in front of the orchestra.<\/p>\n<p>Needless to say, the opener didn&#8217;t need any supporting visuals. Neither did Erin Wall&#8217;s sophisticated interpretation of the <em>Four Last Songs<\/em>. The young Canadian singer has brilliant, exacting intonation and impressive dynamic control. There&#8217;s something haunting about a young woman singing these twilight melodies, the paradox adds yet another dimension to the poems. Written 60 years after the <em>Don Juan<\/em>, at first it\u00a0appears that there are few common denominators with Strauss&#8217;s last compositions, though both seem, in their own way, conquests.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/texas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Image-04-1874-Boston-Lee-01-001-f-copy2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Image 04 - 1874-Boston-Lee-01-001-f copy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/texas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Image-04-1874-Boston-Lee-01-001-f-copy2-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The second half of the program was devoted to <em>Don Quixote, Opus 35<\/em>, and it was here that a series of images accompanied each scene of the tone poem. When cellist Brinton Averil Smith wasn&#8217;t playing&#8221; the old Spanish nobleman or violist Wayne Brooks that of Sancho Panza (the piece is more a double-concerto), one could gaze at images projected on either side of the stage, nicely organized by a curator from The Cervantes Project of Texas A&amp;M University Library. Even more importantly, the title and number of each variation was announced in text, helping the listener to navigate the score. I was taken with how dissonant the music is at times. Certainly Strauss knew that diatonic harmony was already dissolving after Wagner, but he seemed to need the safety-net of a narrative in order to explore those implications.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/texas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Image-05-1933-Paris-Flammarion-01-024-copy2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-50\" title=\"Image 05 - 1933-Paris-Flammarion-01-024 copy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/texas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Image-05-1933-Paris-Flammarion-01-024-copy2-725x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"725\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/texas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Image-05-1933-Paris-Flammarion-01-024-copy2-725x1024.jpg 725w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/texas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Image-05-1933-Paris-Flammarion-01-024-copy2-212x300.jpg 212w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/texas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Image-05-1933-Paris-Flammarion-01-024-copy2.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 725px) 100vw, 725px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before moving to Houston, Sound and Vision&#8221; suggested to me David Bowie&#8217;s flashy 1990 tour, the name taken from one of my favorite tracks on his legendary Low. 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