mercredi 30 août 2017

Charles at the San Sebastian fortnight festival with CincinatiSymphonie

29th August 2017 Palacio de Congresso del Kursaal, San Sébastian
Reciting the texts of Abraham Lincoln supposed to Dance "a great responsibility".  And more, he added, "taking into account who the current tenant of the White House is . "  The actor, who takes part in this musical assembly for the third time after his time at the Edinburgh Festival and the London Proms, emphasizes that the writings of the sixteenth president of the United States are still in force today, "although they are too long to hang them in A tweet ".
 Dance is "delighted" with the work he has done with the orchestra and director Louis Langrée because he assumes, he says, "take on emotional risks."  "Being constantly aware of the image or the cameras" makes the actors "forget what is really their profession," which consists, he says, in "getting a text to the public as best you can without thinking of one same".  And he has admitted that at this point he can not avoid having a somewhat "cynical" view of his profession.  " The actors constantly complain about how hard it is to shoot a movie," he says, "but this work does not consist in putting out fires or enduring wars.
                                                   
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dimanche 27 août 2017

3 reviews and a video ...and BBC Radio 3

with conductor Louis Langrée
 
This drama lingered into Copland’s Lincoln Portrait, where the orchestra created a wonderful, expansive sound. They were joined by actor Charles Dance with the excerpts from Lincoln’s speeches and writings that Copland inserts into the piece. Although he made a striking entrance, Dance's delivery seemed a little rushed, meaning the words lost some of their profundity
Many fine actors have narrated Aaron Copland's Lincoln Portrait since it was first performed by the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra in 1942 when William Adams narrated. For us, it was English actor Charles Dance giving a slight American accent. The text comes up with 'This is what he said' on a number of occasions. Charles Dance's interpretation was schoolmasterish and determined. We had to take note that he was about to say something about Abraham Lincoln, to which we needed to listen and absorb.
The Lincoln Portrait is a splendid bit of morale-boosting hokum, combining stirring quotes from the man himself with random biographical facts (“When standing erect he was 6ft 4in tall”), clothed in music that depicts something of the zeitgeist and also the gravity of a wartime situation. Charles Dance was the narrator here, affecting a not always entirely convincing American accent. The real problem, however, was the amplification: over-resonant and lacking in the clarity that is really the point in such a work. In these interesting political times, the work seems to have acquired new layers of meaning: a reminder of true statesmanship perhaps, with every word a rebuke to current leaders.
https://www.theguardian.com/music
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Prom 58: Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and Louis Langree
 
 

vendredi 25 août 2017

Charles performs Copland's Lincoln and BBC Radio 4 interview

Words spoken by Abraham Lincoln to Congress in 1862 are still considered relevant and very powerful today and being narrated by Charles Dance at the Edinburgh festival.
 
Charles at 2:28:37
 
Charles Dance performs Copland's Lincoln Portrait | 2017 International Festival