omigurt@a... wrote:
> In a message dated 5/2/00 6:35:51 AM, Dean Macy wrote: > > <<Mahlar wrote the symphony for single orchestra and soloists. There are many > arrangements of his Symphony #2. The one we did with the Mormon Tabernacle > and Southern California Mormon choirs and the Utah Symphony called for massive > chorus (520) a symphony with triple percussion and horns (placed on top of the > mountain behind the audience) and eight soloists who usually sang in duos. If > you ever get the opportunity to hear it like this, go for it. You'll think > you've gone to heaven.>> > > Gadzooks! Fascinating...I had no idea! Is it recorded? I would love to hear > it, as this Symphony is one of my favorites. I just heard it the other night at > Symphony Hall in Boston. Delicious!
All of us who participated in this Hollywood Bowl spectacular performance received performance tapes. Whether it is available to the public I don't know. However you have to hear it live to get the effect.
You are familiar with the tremendous ending of Symphony #2. Now imagine, if you can, the horns (six French horns and eight trumpets, etc.) atop a mountain over the heads of the audience echoing the stage horns and the 12 kettle drum sets, four on each side of the stage in the wings and four from atop the mountain with 520 voices pounding out the finale and you will have some scant idea of the power of this symphony. As the echos of the final note echoed back and forth in the surrounding hills and then finally, silence, the audience was so overcome in awe that the absolute quiet lasted about 20 seconds before the audience told us what they thought of our performance. (As I write this the memories flood my mind and my eyes get wet. A similar effect happened to us all as we sang that first evening.)
It was the performance to die for!! Nothing I ever did after I did this in 1968 ever came close and I doubt no performance ever will.
Dean
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