{"id":13461,"date":"2017-02-15T09:00:14","date_gmt":"2017-02-15T17:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=13461"},"modified":"2023-03-22T11:09:49","modified_gmt":"2023-03-22T18:09:49","slug":"local-conductor-brings-beethovens-humanity-to-victoria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2017\/02\/15\/local-conductor-brings-beethovens-humanity-to-victoria\/","title":{"rendered":"Local conductor brings Beethoven\u2019s humanity to Victoria"},"content":{"rendered":"

Local conductor Yariv Aloni scoffs at the idea of calling a composer \u201cdead.\u201d After all, their music is alive, he says. As the musical director of the Victoria Chamber Orchestra (VCO), he will be conducting what he calls \u201ctimeless music\u201d here in town on February 17, when he brings Beethoven\u2019s music to locals.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt never gets old,\u201d he says about Beethoven\u2019s work. \u201cNo matter how old it is and how many times you\u2019ve played it, it\u2019s as if it were written yesterday; it\u2019s always fresh. The music is incredibly alive and to hear it live, it\u2019s something irreplaceable; it\u2019s bigger than life, bigger than anything. For us, the players, to be able to be in it and produce the sound is the most thrilling thing.\u201d<\/p>\n

This is Aloni\u2019s 23rd year conducting the VCO; at this event he will be conducting what he says are two very different symphonies. Aloni says the iconic fifth symphony is relentless and one of the hardest symphonies to conduct, since the instruments are playing all together for nearly the entire piece; he says the second symphony has a bit of a rebellious side to it.<\/p>\n

\u201c[It\u2019s Beethoven] kind of testing the water,\u201d says Aloni, \u201cseeing how much interruption and a rebel he can be.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Conductor Yariv Aloni calls Beethoven\u2019s compositions \u201ctimeless music” (photo provided).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The choice to take on Beethoven\u2019s symphonies happened almost by fluke, says Aloni. The VCO had already done a few of the German composer\u2019s works and unanimously decided to keep going.<\/p>\n

\u201cI felt there was such a feeling in the orchestra of achievement,\u201d he says, \u201cand I said, \u2018I think I want more.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s easy to think that people would become bored playing the same artist\u2019s music over and over again, but Aloni says that\u2019s not the case.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s the humanity of his voice, the sheer humanity in all aspects,\u201d he says. \u201cIt\u2019s incredibly complex, and simple. The feelings are so profound. You have all the emotions like you have in any great music, but it\u2019s on such a profound level. With Beethoven, you have hundreds and hundreds of pages of revisions and notes and ideas and crossovers and sometimes an incredibly violent way of erasing something without even erasing it. You can feel the struggle of how to make it the best, and of course his own life struggle of not being able to hear, so the results are unbelievable.\u201d<\/p>\n

When it comes to those results, the task for Aloni isn\u2019t so much about creating what he wants to hear as it is about guiding the orchestra through the piece.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s thrilling when the orchestra really comes together, but it\u2019s not so much what I want,\u201d he says. \u201cIf I\u2019m able to help them bring the best out of themselves, they don\u2019t really play for me, they play together. I\u2019m there to help them do that and to inspire them and to focus them. I just help them achieve it, so it\u2019s really their achievement, which is the real celebration.\u201d<\/p>\n

Beethoven\u2019s 2nd Symphony in D and 5th Symphony in C Minor
\n<\/i>8 pm Friday, February 17
\n$15 for students (free for music students)
\nFirst Metropolitan United Church (932 Balmoral)
\nvictoriachamberorchestra.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Local conductor Yariv Aloni scoffs at the idea of calling a composer \u201cdead.\u201d After all, their music is alive, he says. As the musical director of the Victoria Chamber Orchestra (VCO), he will be conducting what he calls \u201ctimeless music\u201d here in town on February 17, when he brings Beethoven\u2019s music to locals. \u201cIt never […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13462,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,182],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts","category-february-15-2017"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13461"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23822,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13461\/revisions\/23822"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}