Headed to Columbus OH on Oct 14!
Headed to Columbus OH on Oct 14!
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An AT4033 is rather low for these standards...I guess that was the venue's choice.
I bought one for like $100 used once. Stick to DPA and Schoeps.
Wonder if Dave Sinko is accompanying Chris on this tour.
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Tonight's show in Portland was excellent. Full house at the Alberta Rose Theater...lots of friendly banter between Chris and the audience. Wonderful mix of styles, original songs and covers, all tastefully woven around the Bach pieces.
I scored tickets for the Ann Arbor mi show for my 9 year old son and my self for $35 total. They have a promotion where they set a few tickets aside for parents and children at a discounted rate, I am pretty excited. The show is one day after his 10th birthday so it should be a pretty good birthday present. He has never expressed any interest in music until he heard Thile's Bach cd.
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Yes, the Seattle show was fantastic. I kinda went there on a lark and was expecting to only hear the Bach material. He really mixed it up, which again just cements my notion of the man as a musical genius.
I agree with the other post here in this thread about a photographic (musical) memory. How he can keep all of that material in his memory is mind boggling.
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My wife just ordered our tickets. We will see him at the Music Center at Strathmore in Rockville, MD on October 30th.
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What an amazing show. I to see mr. Thile last night in Ann Arbor Mi.
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We were at the AA show last night as well. Very enjoyable evening of music and yuks.
What a great room Rackham Auditorium is. Beautiful proportions, great sight lines, comfortable seats (leg room!), nice acoustics.
I only wish Mr. Thile had introduced his Loar to the Michigan audience. Certainly there were many knowledgeable fans of his work in attendance, but my guess is that a good percentage were part of the core UMMS faithful who might risk seeing anything at Rackham (it's that good.) I wonder how many folks were aware of the history/legacy of the company and instruments?
Mick
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Why, or perhaps better put, how in the world would you assume such a thing? If it were Yo Yo Ma speaking about his cello, do you think people would be bored? Well, perhaps you might be, as self appointed spokesman for the majority.
No reason in the world why he couldn't do both. Mr. Thile told assuming tales about Bach, his songs, others' songs, about the life of a mandolinist. All with charm and to an appreciative ear. Which didn't seem to distract him from playing his instrument most thoroughly and expertly.
Mick
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Tuesday is the show at Carnegie Hall! It's downstairs at Zankel Hall, rather than the big room. Punch Brothers sounded fantastic in Zankel a few years back. I've never heard more perfectly transparent amplification than in that room.
I think that the people who participate regularly on this website are in the incredibly small minority of people who know or care about the minutiae of instruments - construction and engineers and which ones were signed on what day. If he spoke briefly about the general history of the mandolin and it's place in this kind of music, I could see that being interesting. I stand by my original comment - very few people would have cared about the history of Gibson and Lloyd Loar and how his particular instrument came into being.
All this talk of chris having a photographic memory is rather annoying, the guy is an obsessive practicer he's been playing the Bach for many many years, just listen to any bootlegs from when he was a teenager.
The point here is that he plays the stuff with a beautiful intensity and moves people, if you are thrilled by feats of memory go buy a tony Buzan book.
Learn something correctly and it sticks.
My nephew and a friend of his who plays a little mandolin were blown away in Evanston, IL. I had been expecting this concert to be the best concert and/or performance I had seen in a few years and for a few years to come, what with the solo Loar for a couple of hours with it's best performer in a great listening forum. Instead, I gave a eulogy a hundred miles away and spent time with my best friend's family for a few days. I hear the performance met all of my expectations. Maybe your reviews will convince me to take a plane somewhere. Then again, the release is labeled vol.1. Always a good sign.
Attendance was high in Evanston, or so I'm told. A great thing for mandos.
I saw Homer & Jethro once. This mandolin therapy isn't helping me get over it.
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I just got tickets for the October 29th performance at memorial hall on the UNC campus in Chapel Hill NC. It is a great venue and the acoustics are quite good as it was designed with recitals in mind.
Bach...Solo mandolin....Yawn...
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As a percentage of the general music going public sure, and as a percentage of musicians sure, but as a percentage of mandolin playing enthusiasts, I am not sure the percentage is insignificant.
I mean, mandolin players are a incredibly small minority of all the musicians, and folks who play anything are in the minority to begin with.
That's precisely my point. No performer can cater exclusively to the desires of enthusiasts - he/she has to appeal to a relatively broad audience, provided they have some interest or potential interest in the music to start with. Talking shop will just turn most of those people off.
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I agree with John Hill.........I caught Chris' "Bachtoberfest" tour in Portland a few weeks ago & it was fantastic........he played the whole new CD BUT he threw in some wonderful bluegrass & a few other tunes to break up the Bach...........AND............he played one of his Loars.........what an amazing sound.........I had yet to hear a Loar up close & personal & scoffed (privately in the deepest recesses of my mind) that his Loar could not be that much different in sound than my The Loar ()............man 'o man was I wrong.........I have a greater appreciation for the hype & all of the lore about the Loar........:-)
Peace,
Jim Ferguson
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I don't have any skepticism. I'm not interested in solo Bach by anyone. BTW - I have seen Chris Thile twice before. Once with the Punch Brothers (again not my thing) and once with Michael Daves at Greyfox where they were.....awesome!
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