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RE: 10-year performances summary
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suzie.la-@googlemail.com
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Sep 23, 2009 02:56 PDT
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Chris:
Is another observation that Feldman's earlier works are performed less
often than his later works? The King of Denmark is the only early(ish)
work on your lists!
Suzie L
Chris Villars wrote:
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Hi All,
The online listing of forthcoming Feldman performances has been going
for just 10 years now (started September 1999). I produced some summary
stats at the 5-year and 8-year points, and now I've added the 10-year
summary:
www.cnvill.net/mfperfsumm3.htm
A few observations:
1) Rothko Chapel and The Viola in My Life 2 continue to be the most
frequently performed works.
2) All the top works on the 5-year summary are still there on the
10-year summary. In the intervening years, Neither, For Philip Guston
and Madame Press have joined the list of top performances.
3) Germany continues to be the country where, by a significant margin,
Feldman is most often performed, followed by the USA and the UK. In
terms of the percentage of total performances, the trend in the USA has
been slightly upward, whereas the trend in Germany and the UK is
slightly downward.
4) At the other end of the scale, leaving aside the orchestral and
choral works which (for the most part) are seldom (if ever) performed,
major later works which have been very rarely performed over the past 10
years are: String Quartet 1 (only one performance listed), Violin and
String Quartet (2 performances) and For Christian Wolff (4
performances). Compare these numbers with the 26 performances of String
Quartet 2, 28 performances of For Philip Guston and 39 performances of
Crippled Symmetry!
Of course, I must add the "health warning": The online list in
incomplete, though hopefully enough of a sample to have some
significance. Aside from the stats, the list hopefully helps fans to get
to some of the less widely publicised events.
All the best -
Chris
Chris Villars
www.cnvill.net
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