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☆ Smell the Music: Inviting a Perfumer Into the Concert Hall
  + stars: | 2024-02-23 | by ( Joshua Barone | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
It was time to smell Scriabin’s “Prometheus: The Poem of Fire.”This music, from 1910, has an element of synesthesia in its score, which calls for a color organ — a keyboard instrument that projects lights of a dozen hues — along with a full orchestra, a piano soloist and a choir. But in October at Davies Symphony Hall, the home of the San Francisco Symphony, the piece was being prepared with an additional sense in mind. Onstage, the pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet practiced his solo part in “Prometheus,” which the San Francisco Symphony will perform March 1 through 3, while the conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen listened attentively to the wooden vortexes as they were being tested; the sound they made while emitting smoke, he noticed, was nearly a G.Mathilde Laurent, Cartier’s longtime perfumer, who had designed the scents, double-checked notes on her iPad. For this day’s test, without the orchestra, she wanted to be sure the diffusers were timed to match the music. So they were going to play a recording overhead.
Persons: Jean, Yves Thibaudet, Pekka Salonen, attentively, Mathilde Laurent, Cartier’s, perfumer Organizations: Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco Symphony, San Francisco
☆ For 50 Years, Emanuel Ax Has Made Music Sound Simply Right
  + stars: | 2023-09-01 | by ( David Allen | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
He has said things like this forever, sought to share the spotlight or point it wholly elsewhere. And his modesty, which he wraps in a jesting smile and a famous bonhomie, is at the heart of his pianism and personality alike. “So in the very, very best sense of the word, he kind of eradicates himself out of the picture.”Might that mean, though, that Ax is taken for granted? How many have had his ability, not unlike that of his late associate Bernard Haitink, to make music sound so simply right? As Ma put it, “He doesn’t go around saying, ‘And I did this.’” In fact, Ma recalled, when Ax told him that this article was happening, he said, “I don’t know why they’re doing this.”
Persons: That’s Manny, ”, Pekka Salonen, Anders Hillborg, “, eradicates, Ax, Bernard Haitink, Ma Organizations: San Francisco Symphony
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