Friday, May 14, 2010
Music Alan Gilbert, Chillin' with Death
Posted by Henry Stewart on Fri, May 14, 2010 at 12:37 PM
But nothing as strange as what's went up yesterday.
At 1:48 a.m. Thursday, I received an email from "nekrotzar" with a broken link and a YouTube URL, bringing me to the homepage of a user named "breughelland," which happens to be the name of the town in which Ligeti's opera is set. The page features three videos of Philharmonic music director Alan Gilbert hanging out with Death, the upcoming opera's lead character, dressed here face-to-foot in black robes: they play Guitar Hero, discuss ice cream flavors, and, in my favorite, discuss the premiere of Stravinsky's "Rite of Spring". (Watch it below.)
I'm glad we finally have a musical director in New York with a sense of humor and a modest understanding of the modern world, even if he doesn't have crazy hair. It's little things like this that make me really, really like e adorable Alan Gilbert.
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