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Re: [Time Travel Fantasy] Who would you see? - BCam - 08-15-2013
Cole Porter - 1933.
Re: [Time Travel Fantasy] Who would you see? - Uncle Wig - 08-15-2013
BCam wrote:
Cole Porter - 1933.
Good one.
Also, Django Reinhart and the Quintet of the Hot Club of France.
Re: [Time Travel Fantasy] Who would you see? - PeterB - 08-15-2013
Freddie Mercury, Live Aid at Wembley, 1985.
Edit: close seconds would be either John Lennon (as already mentioned), or the Beatles on Ed Sullivan.
Re: [Time Travel Fantasy] Who would you see? - Racer X - 08-15-2013
I'm with Peter B. Some classic Queen performance.
I get goosebumps when I watch that 10th anniversary concert DVD, which was also a tribute to Freddie.
Re: [Time Travel Fantasy] Who would you see? - ka jowct - 08-15-2013
The person I would choose is eliminated by one of your rules, since I saw him live a handful of times in the 80s. I'd have gone with some concert of his from the late 50s or early 60s.
So I think I'd pick a concert at Carnegie Hall from around 1943, a recording of which I have. Toscanini conducting Wagner, with Lauritz Melchior and Helen Traubel. Even with the limitations of a mono 1943 ish recording, it's an exciting performance, and I'd love to go back in time and hear it properly.
Re: [Time Travel Fantasy] Who would you see? - blooz - 08-15-2013
anonymouse1 wrote:
Beethoven. Premiere of the Ninth Symphony.
http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2244/was-beethoven-unable-to-hear-the-applause-when-the-9th-symphony-premiered
This one.
Or else Coltrane and Monk playing together at the Jazz workshop 1964
Re: [Time Travel Fantasy] Who would you see? - A-Polly - 08-15-2013
Mozart! or Beethoven, as Anonymouse1 chose — but definitely someone who was never recorded and has not been heard in living memory. Perhaps Turlough O'Carolan, or some unknown Irish harper.
Re: [Time Travel Fantasy] Who would you see? - Lemon Drop - 08-15-2013
I would love to have a seat back in 1740-something when Handel first performed the Messiah, in Dublin.
He's not my favorite composer but that particular moment, for that piece, would've been spectacular.
Re: [Time Travel Fantasy] Who would you see? - Black - 08-15-2013
The Queen/Wembley concert is a contender, but I'm leaning towards one of the first performances of Beethoven's Eroica symphony (the work that started the Romantic movement.)
http://www.beethovenseroica.com/Pg2_hist/history.html
I once read that when it debuted the audience demanded that the first movement be repeated before going on, but I'm not finding support for that anywhere.
Re: [Time Travel Fantasy] Who would you see? - Dennis S - 08-15-2013
Otis Redding.