I discovered this and the entire opus of Dougherty’s music at the age of 80 after 70 years of studying and playing music -😮Wow👍 Getting to know a whole New World of music at my stage of life is miraculous. My great thanks to all involved in this video presentation and in particular to Michael Dougherty👍✅💥 As a Horn player I am particularly enthralled by the on and off stage horn duets and creative use of muted and stopped Horn.📯💥
My report/critique: Michael Daugherty's Red Cape Tango starts off with intriguing french horn echoing, followed by an astounding bassoon solo cohesively weaving with the tubular bells. Then comes the most beautiful part of the entire piece: the chromatics of the violins blending with nearly every instrument in the ensemble, with amazing harmonics coming from the tubular bells (this piece would not have been possible without them). When these musical phrases are finished, the brass (the per se "uglier" instruments than the string instruments) and percussion join together for a magnificent sound, adding to the overall sophistication and quality of the music by the Metropolis Symphony, switching between minor and ambiguous modes and giving off a sense of urgency. Slightly before 6:30 in this musical performance, another enthralling french horn echoing duet occurs, resetting the music; then the main idea (of chromatics and tubular bells) repeats, but with different variations and more diverse instruments, and slowly changes to an urgent piece, with a long lasting accelerando and several sforzandos. At 9:28, a violin soli occurs, slowing and speeding up the tempo with several accents, accelerandos, and rubados and making interesting (and ill-sounding) harmonies until 10:40, when the orchestra resets to the original chromatics, with multiple twists, building up to 12:39 where a colossal sounding french horn soli happens, ending the piece at about 13:10. Overall, this was an astounding piece, and will remain as one of my favorites, although I do strongly dislike the way the composer brought the main musical phrases in and out of major and minor keys rather than developing them until a clear new idea was formed.
love it - audio and video are great = a moving modern composition kudos to the university of michigan for this magnificent stage and pipe organ and the students in the orchestra and conductor and composer for a timeless performance ! it sounds better every time i listen to it.
recently played this in my first professional orchestra concert and now this piece is and will remain one of my favorites. Even if I only got to play second violin.
Nick Ten Brink it is. I recognize it too. it's also confirmed in the description. I used to play at Hill Auditorium. possibly my favorite place to play.
Looks like the young woman playing French Horn forgot her music or something. The camera catches her very worried look, and then sneaks off stage to get music and come back at about the 7 minute mark.
Just cringing at how bad the 2nd violin principal's vibrato is. 2:40 the hand is so unbelievably tense and awkward. Stretches every finger out and leaves the 4th finger straight. How can you vibrate like that?
I discovered this and the entire opus of Dougherty’s music at the age of 80 after 70 years of studying and playing music -😮Wow👍 Getting to know a whole New World of music at my stage of life is miraculous. My great thanks to all involved in this video presentation and in particular to Michael Dougherty👍✅💥 As a Horn player I am particularly enthralled by the on and off stage horn duets and creative use of muted and stopped Horn.📯💥
My prof played this in Music Appreciation at Purdue in 2008...and I have been obsessed ever since.
Wonderful, amazing, it's so different to the rest of classical music. Bravo Michael Daugherty .
Watched and reported on this amazing piece for school; great job videotaping
My report/critique:
Michael Daugherty's Red Cape Tango starts off with intriguing french horn echoing, followed by an astounding bassoon solo cohesively weaving with the tubular bells. Then comes the most beautiful part of the entire piece: the chromatics of the violins blending with nearly every instrument in the ensemble, with amazing harmonics coming from the tubular bells (this piece would not have been possible without them). When these musical phrases are finished, the brass (the per se "uglier" instruments than the string instruments) and percussion join together for a magnificent sound, adding to the overall sophistication and quality of the music by the Metropolis Symphony, switching between minor and ambiguous modes and giving off a sense of urgency. Slightly before 6:30 in this musical performance, another enthralling french horn echoing duet occurs, resetting the music; then the main idea (of chromatics and tubular bells) repeats, but with different variations and more diverse instruments, and slowly changes to an urgent piece, with a long lasting accelerando and several sforzandos. At 9:28, a violin soli occurs, slowing and speeding up the tempo with several accents, accelerandos, and rubados and making interesting (and ill-sounding) harmonies until 10:40, when the orchestra resets to the original chromatics, with multiple twists, building up to 12:39 where a colossal sounding french horn soli happens, ending the piece at about 13:10. Overall, this was an astounding piece, and will remain as one of my favorites, although I do strongly dislike the way the composer brought the main musical phrases in and out of major and minor keys rather than developing them until a clear new idea was formed.
# TMEA 2019 All-State
love it - audio and video are great = a moving modern composition
kudos to the university of michigan for this magnificent stage and pipe organ
and the students in the orchestra and conductor and composer for a timeless performance !
it sounds better every time i listen to it.
Thanks my marching pants are soiled
recently played this in my first professional orchestra concert and now this piece is and will remain one of my favorites. Even if I only got to play second violin.
very very excellent performance. love the 5 minute applause lol!
Such wow
such a good piece. pretty sure that's hill auditorium
Nick Ten Brink it is. I recognize it too. it's also confirmed in the description. I used to play at Hill Auditorium. possibly my favorite place to play.
Loved this in Northern Ballet Dracula
If you played this in high school hit the like button
Don't ever take this down.
Looks like the young woman playing French Horn forgot her music or something. The camera catches her very worried look, and then sneaks off stage to get music and come back at about the 7 minute mark.
She's playing an offstage solo.
Yup, took her music with her when she went.
Just cringing at how bad the 2nd violin principal's vibrato is. 2:40 the hand is so unbelievably tense and awkward. Stretches every finger out and leaves the 4th finger straight. How can you vibrate like that?