08-15-2013, 09:30 PM
Cole Porter - 1933.
[Time Travel Fantasy] Who would you see?
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08-15-2013, 09:30 PM
Cole Porter - 1933.
08-15-2013, 09:49 PM
BCam wrote: Good one. Also, Django Reinhart and the Quintet of the Hot Club of France.
08-15-2013, 10:00 PM
Freddie Mercury, Live Aid at Wembley, 1985.
Edit: close seconds would be either John Lennon (as already mentioned), or the Beatles on Ed Sullivan.
08-15-2013, 10:19 PM
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.
08-15-2013, 10:31 PM
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.
08-15-2013, 10:55 PM
anonymouse1 wrote: This one. Or else Coltrane and Monk playing together at the Jazz workshop 1964
08-15-2013, 11:00 PM
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.
08-15-2013, 11:09 PM
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.
08-15-2013, 11:22 PM
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.
08-15-2013, 11:49 PM
Otis Redding.
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