Ned Rorem in Merkin Concert Hall - 23 October, 1986
from Lies: A Diary 1986-1999, pages 38-39:
Miriam Gideon, seventeen years older than I to the hour, gave us her music at Merkin Hall. The new little Piano Sonata, pleasantly played by Sahan Arzuni, was a novel delight. But the aesthetic of her vocal music so goes against my own (gratuitous repetition of words and verses, undifferentiated tone from song to song, gimmicky switching from language to language within one song, and the offensive new translation of Saint Paul's letter to the Corinthians, where "charity" smarmily is mistranslated as "love"), so put me off that I couldn't hear the music.
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Ned Rorem, Lies: A Diary 1986-1999 (New York, 2002), p. 38-39. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1436312283161 accessed: 13 October, 2024
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Piano Sonata
written by Miriam Gideon |
performed by Şahan Arzruni |
Experience Information
Date/Time | 23 October, 1986 |
Medium | live |
Listening Environment | in the company of others, indoors, in public |
Originally submitted by pashworth on Wed, 08 Jul 2015 00:38:03 +0100
Approved on Sun, 31 Jan 2016 23:50:13 +0000