People Are Talking: UMS presents Ryoji Ikeda’s...
Posted: 10/31/14
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People are Talking: UMS Presents Goran Bregovic and his Wedding and Funeral Orchestra at Hill Auditorium:
After starting 15 minutes late as usual for UMS events — the cacophony became quickly unbearable. Shame on the Hill Auditorium organizers — you have a fine concert hall with wonderful accoustics and the music was so incredibly OVERAMPLIFIED that the decible level was unhealthy and unbearable (the amplification would have been too loud for an outdoor concert let alone an indoor concert in Hill). I liked some of the music but the amplification level made it unbearable and I had to flee after 1 hour. I get around 50 UMS tickets each season, but I will avoid getting any non-classical tickets to any Hill Auditorium events in the future.
Bunch of synthesized noise, Mr. Bregović egoistically and unnecessarily conducting, without depth in any aspect. It worked in La reine Margot; it certainly did not work in Hill Auditorium. I could not even stand the first half hour.
"by Clair
People Are Talking: Takács Quartet – Schubert Concert #1:
There are so many new wonderful quartets and UMS brings back every year the tired old Takacs — a shadow of their former selves (and of the original members) — lackluster technique; it is time retire them and bring in new quartets !!