Though our beloved live performances are canceled, Artslandia’s mission to elevate the arts remains steadfast. We are pressing ahead with our work to celebrate the confluence of human connection, even though its expression has temporarily shifted. In partnership with Oregon Symphony, we’ve created the Mondays with the Maestro series, hosted by Music Director Carlos Kalmar. Every Monday during Happy Hour, Carlos will explore the connections between emotionality and music through storytelling and selected highlights of the Symphony’s 2020/21 Season.
Do you have any questions for Carlos Kalmar?
Leave them in the comments below! Maestro Kalmar will answer them on the livestream.
How do you keep busy creatively? And not creatively.
Exploring the connections between emotionality and music with us? Thank you! The pleasure is mine!
What poem (poems) of your choice would you like to read for, and with, your listeners?
Like friends, like the Oregon Symphony, like flowers, like Happy Hour on zoom,
A poem thinks with you, therefore, he/she/ it takes away the gloom …
Some even say a poem is an event in consciousness.
Sending conscious health and smiles your way.
With Hugs,
Anna
I recently listened on Youtube to Vaughan Williams 5th Symphony, written during the height of the bombing of England during World War II. It is a beautiful transcendent work and you might think it strange that such a work was composed during a time of relentless, horrible war. After the performance, the Youtube commentator recalled the words of Sir Adrian Boult on hearing this symphony (at its premier, I believe). Boult said that the 5th Symphony transports us to a time when all of this madness ends. Boult’s words of course applied to World War II but it struck me how appropriate they are to our day.
Wonderful! Can’t wait for next Monday.
What do you miss the most about living in Uruguay and in Austria?
I would love to know the recording for each of the selections you choose for us. Many thanks for the Happy Hours and all you do for us.
Hi Mr. Kalmar,
Really appreciating this weekly show! I have a question: most of the pieces you have chosen have been from Classical or Romantic era. Is there a reason Baroque pieces have not featured in your selections? Is Baroque music perhaps somewhat more ‘constrained’ or even ‘mechanical’ and less ‘melodic’ or ‘free’ and therefore less reflect of emotionality? I love Baroque music and think can induce strong emotions in the listener
Looking forward to future sessions. Thank you!
Thank you. For exploring with us: “something ever more about to be “. Thank you! For poetry in our Mondays with the Maestro!
If I could I would, in return, give you, Ladies and Gentlemen, the organizers, and Mr. Maestro,
a little, wild, pink rose – NOOTKA – like never before.
If I were a physicist I would be listening to your work with an even bigger, ever-bigger, and slightly wild but thoughtful SMILE – up close to your words and notes.
Like Mr. Einstein was smiling? Perhaps? Or maybe even thinking once upon a time:
“The intuitive mind is a sacred gift, and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.”
So, a question comes, and is:
How does your work for music balance between the intuitive and the rational?
With more and more faithful, intuitive and rational gifts,
Warmly asking for more poetry,
Anna
P.S. NOOTKA – read in Polish NUTKA – means a little note. What color can that one note be, in this spring 2020 silence, for all the Oregon Symphony?
When you say a piece sounds angry or hopeful, what exactly in the music that makes you say that? For example, for me, anger and passion sound very similar!
How are American orchestras different from other orchestras you have conducted with?
I just watched the episode on anger and want to thank you for widening my musical horizon by including the Symphony #1 by Corigliano. Very exciting work and I hope to hear the entire work. I also was pleased that you included Vaughan Williams Symphony #4. I first heard this work nearly 50 years ago played live by the London Symphony Orchestra. Such music amazed me having never heard such a work before. It was great to learn that this was a work played by the Oregon Symphony in Carnegie Hall. Thanks for offering these insights into music. I look forward to live performances one day.
How can we, listeners, be of help to Our Friends from the Oregon Symphony, both musicians and art-organizers? To harmony, to budget, to music, to joy, to our fragile togetherness.
Ladies and Gentlemen! Allow me!
May we, too,
bring some joy,
to You … and you …