Your ears deceive you | Emi Ferguson | TEDxBeaconStreet
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- Опубликовано: 12 сен 2024
- How do our preconceived notions affect how we think about and categorize music? Emi Ferguson may surprise you as she shows what classical composers and musicians have in common with contemporary artists.
Hailed by critics for her "tonal bloom" and "hauntingly beautiful performances," English-born American flutist Emi Ferguson is a performer who stretches the boundaries of what is expected of modern-day instrumentalists.
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The irony is that the people wouldn't cheer or make a peep while she was performing that amazing piece by Paganini! hahaha
And she didn't call them out on it right afterward! THAT would have made a bigger impact on the audience, in my opinion.
Excellent presentation. The point is poignant.
No but I'd be getting WILD AF if I hear classical. So don't cast your pearls among swine and I'll be here getting down to that good good music! Much love from NH.
Classical musicians have too much class to suggest to an audience that they should applaud for their own performance. The conductor will suggest it after an ENTIRE PIECE (ahem) is over by gesturing to the group as a whole and having individual sections or soloists stand. But by doing that he’s implying “it’s all them; it’s not about me…”
Real musicians would find suggesting that the audience applaud them to be terribly crass.
Great presentation Emi!! A good example of breaking down the barrier is the concert my wife and I went to last Wednesday night---The Messiah Sing-Along with the LA Master Chorale Orchestra and soloists. It's one of their most well-attended concerts each year and for good reason----audience participation and interaction makes it so much more enjoyable! We had a blast singing our lungs out and even stayed after for 45 minutes of caroling in the lobby!! And during the solo movements the audience listened and applauded more enthusiastically than usual...
+wakeupchamp Thank you so much. That concert sounds like so much fun!
I think sing it yourself Messiahs are a great innovation. I’d go if I could sing, but I’m a (lapsed) instrumentalist. I think Ruckus is another great idea to crossover audiences to classical music. I turn it up whenever I hear their distinctive style on KDFC. But I have to disagree with her premise which seems to be that people should be clapping after cadenzas or between movements of serious (“classical”) pieces. Or at least, should be allowed to if they want to.
Perhaps I’m stodgy but I would be extremely put off by that sort of thing in a professional concert. I’m less bothered by it at a school music group concert, but people clapping between movements are just creating teaching opportunities. “No, Johnny, we do that at jazz band concerts, not concert band or symphonic band or orchestra concerts.”
Should we also allow the audience to let their cellphones ring? Or to rush the stage? Or cough in the quiet parts? Or go to the lobby bar during the slow boring movement?
There’s a reason you never have to ask the question “gee, I wonder what kind of a concert it was?” when you hear about a fight breaking out at a concert. Think about it.
Loved your talk and wow what a performance. Thank you for sharing!!
SHE IS AN AMAZING FLUTIST WHY DIDNT ANYONE CLAP GOODNESS GREATIOUS!!!!!
Great message and great performances! Thanks so much
Awesome Emi!
We heard Ms. Ferguson in recital at PianoSonoma on July 28th. She is fabulous!
Bette & Jason M
Why does it just feel like the narrator is literally Preaching the Gospel. 🙏✔️✔️✔️ Thank you for the content. Amen.... And after hearing to the end 😂 yep yep we need to focus on our connections. Music transcends all language 🙏
Wonderful!
Go Emi! Awesome Message!!!!
great job Emi! Loved it
How about inviting the audience to applaud at certain high points in Paganini? That is, do a pause with raised eyebrows. Do a pause and inviting hand wave.
God, if any group or soloist plans on doing that PLEASE inform people of your intention before they spend the money on a ticket!
Having said that, depending on the type of music or format of the concert I might very well still go. If it’s a concert by Ruckus I absolutely would go and would fully expect non-concert-standard indications of appreciation. But if it’s a concert by a traditional orchestra playing standard classical repertoire I would be completely offended by clapping at inappropriate times or the like. It would totally ruin the experience and would convince me further that civil society is collapsing before our eyes.
amazing!!! Emi!! =)
I love her...,!! I’m saying this a flutist...!!
Fantastic playing thank you
Muito bom! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Baller!
is the background made of soda cans
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Seems like
They looked like giant lead fishing weights to me.
It's distracting....
I enjoyed the classical Eminem.
She's playing Bus Driver - Imaginary Places
Nope
She got talent in performance, but please spare us with the nonsense. What she talked about is just a disrespect to serious classical music.
Make noise during a concert and you are putting your life at risk.
I don’t think anyone’s life would be literally at risk in the kind of concerts she’s talking about. Figuratively, definitely.
Now if you’re talking about a rap concert… well, you’re risking your life just going to one.