People Are Talking: UMS presents Ryoji Ikeda’s...
Posted: 10/31/14
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All comments by Shawn Ying
People Are Talking: UMS presents The San Francisco Symphony American Mavericks Festival:
It was definitely interesting. We had two full rehearsals with Bates on the stage to work out the details and some additional last minutes modifications. Poor Mason had to go back and forth between the stage and audience seating area to check the balance so many times. I think we finally got it right. Did you also get your first note from the last note of the recorded song?
Shawn, so great of you to chime in! I’m so happy to see some people from San Francisco joining the conversation. I hope you had fun singing the Bates piece. I know I loved it in Ann Arbor.
"-Liz Stover, UMS
by Liz Stover
People Are Talking: UMS presents The San Francisco Symphony American Mavericks Festival:
Yes, there would be some very quiet sound still coming from electronic media. And Bates wanted the final cord of the chorus to be soft and linger. I was not there at this concert, but I did sing in the chorus during its world premier in San Francisco 03/15-17. So, you just attended the 4th performance of this new piece. 🙂
The longest silence I have ever experienced was under maestro James Conlon. It was Verdi Requiem that we performed in October 2011. I believe the silence with longer than 30 second.
The concert was incredible and all of the performers were outstanding. It seemed at the end of Mass Transmission when the choir sang its last note and Jerry Blackstone still had his arms raised in a directors pose, the audience began clapping too soon. As people applauded, the expressions on Bates’ and the choir members’ faces seemed to suggest that the piece was not over, and it was supposed to continue. If anyone who is familiar with the piece and heard it on Thursday evening, did the audience cut short the work’s performance. Mass Transmission was captivatingly sublime.
"by Drew