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Okay, here’s a really fun question that my dh came up with last night: If time-travel were possible and money no object, what musical group, composer, or artist — from any era — would you go see at work or in concert?
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Soul searching
The first performance of Handel’s Messiah
Horatio Stafford writing “It Is Well with My Soul”
Arthur Fiedler conducting Boston Pops anytime anywhere
Celine Dion
Seriously, the first performance of Handel’s Messiah would be awesome.
David.
Andres Segovia.
Cannonball Adderly.
Benny Goodman — while wearing my Class A uniform and “50 mission” crush hat
David on the harp and singing Psalms, Saul’s response, etc.
Billy Speer ministering privately to friends in new grief
David on that harp of his, sans Saul;)
Miriam and Moses on the other side.
The hymn the apostles sang with Christ before the cross.
The saints on the sea of glass.
Then I would love to hear the poets sing–Shakespeare and Burns particularly.
Any moment with Hayden, Mendelsohn, Mahler, Wagner would be awesome too.
Ellington at the Cotton Club in the mid-late 30s, or Count Basie at the Savoy
Grateful Dead - Avalon Ballroom 1969
Elvis Presley - first Sun record session or any late ‘54, early ‘55 concert (prior to national discovery)
Beethoven 9th Symphony Premiere - Vienna 1824
The Band - Last Waltz concert, 1976
Ramones - CBGBs, New York 1978
I’d love also love to see Sinatra (at the Sands Hotel, Vegas 1966), or Barbara Streisand at a small Vegas club during the same era (late 60s)
Travis- Love your eclectic line-up. I would have to add the Beatles just because
Bach
Any opera in its heyday in Vienna
Shakespeare in the Globe Theatre seated in general admission.
The Doors in San Fransico
The Ramones in CBGBs
The Sex Pistols any time any where
Robert Johnson in the Delta
The Rolling Stones in the original show at the El Mocambo club in Toronto in 1977.
Rush’s 2112 tour.
Jimi Hendrix at Woodstock
Bach at the organ
Loved the idea of the first performance of The Messiah
David and his harp
Beatles–only if I was in the front row and could hear anything
I’d go to Vegas and the Cotton Club with Travis
Would join StuBob to hear Benny Goodman (I’m a clarinetist myself)
And, just once, I would like to have heard my mother-in-law sing on the radio circa 1947.
I always said I would be a swooning girl at a Liszt concert.
Bach, Handel, Vivaldi
Jewish people singing psalms in Bible times
my father-in-law playing with a Polish band when my husband was young
Callas, Callas, Callas
The Chicago Trovatore 1955
The Berlin Lucia 1955
The Scala Norma 1955
The London Traviata 1958
Lenny: any Mahler program at the NY Philharmonic in the 1960’s
The premier of Steve Reich’s “Four Organs” at Carnegie Hall in 1973, which caused a riot with “yells for the music to stop, mixed with applause to hasten the end of the piece.” Michael Tilson Thomas, the conductor, recalls “One woman walked down the aisle and repeatedly banged her head on the front of the stage, wailing ‘Stop, stop, I confess.”
Les Noces at the Hollywod Bowl conducted by Igor Stravinsky with Aaron Copland, Samuel Barber and Roger Sessions at 3 of the 4 pianos, and with dancers and singers. 1958?
Do I need a time machine for Alice in Chains?
That shepherd named David singing Psalm 23
Bach
the Upper Room before the Cross
the first singing of “A Mighty Fortress”
hushed singing of the underground church
the times returning from vacation when my brother and sister and I would start singing hymns–one would start singing and the other two would join in as soon as we heard what song was being sung, and we’d keep it up till we were all hoarse and had to lean in close to hear the words; with my parents still alive and driving the vehicle
or, for #1–being in the multitude of saints singing before the Throne (and NOT having to come home again)
What a downer you are, Cheryl D.
Agreed on The Messiah and David on his harp. I would add Mozart or any of the big classical/baroque composers.
More modern-
Christian: Keith Green anywhere (he was great in concert, I attended several); also, the 2nd Chapter of Acts; and Phil Keaggy.
Secular-
The Beatles; Jimi Hendrix; Lead Zepplin.
My over-6-ft.-tall-&-heavy great-grandfather playing the title role of Scheherezade, in a “little theater” production, either in New Haven, or maybe back in Germany. (Not sure where he was at the time.)
Yes, I said great-grandfather.
Llama - Due to vocalist Layne Staley’s overdose death in ‘02, you most definitely will need a ‘wayback’ machine to see Alice in Chains.
Count me in on the Messiah road trip.
Also, I’m going with Travis to hear Sinatra (but not Babs)
Adding: Led Zeppelin after the release of Physical Graffiti
Sarah Vaughn in the 1950’s
Glenn Miller in the late 30’s/early 40’s
Oh, oh! I forgot I wanted to hear Patsy Cline live!
My Grandpa singing in Gilbert and Sullivan’s Pirates of Penzance WWII era.
I, too, would also love to hear Keith Green. I also miss my husband’s friend, Rich Mullins. Alas, he was not my friend, but I miss the times he would come into the living room and play the latest song he wrote. I would like to travel back in time to one of those informal gatherings. They always stirred my soul.
Beatles 1964
U2 1987 - Joshua Tree era
I’m all up for Messiah as well.
Bach at the organ
the premier of Handel’s Messiah
Barbara Streisand
Duke Ellington
Count Basie
Ella Fitzgerald
Cyndi Lauper
Patsy Cline
2nd Chapter of Acts (I saw them in concert once.)
Keith Green
Rich Mullins
the premier of Rite of Spring by Stravinsky
the premier of any work by Charles Ives
Maurice Andre (trumpet player)
any opera premier (not season premier but actual premier)
Okay, I’ll stop now.
A friend of mine actually picked up a hitchhiker on the way to Big Sur in, I think, ‘69. They ended up camping together and jamming around the campfire. My friend was quite impressed. He did not find out till morning that his comrade was Steven Stills and not till even later what Stills would become. But he said it was a sweet night around the fire.
KYLE A: any opera premier (not season premier but actual premier)
Since you’d like to go to a premier, how about The Ring cycle at the opening of Bayreuth in 1876? Besides the composer, you could observe Nietsche, Tchaikovsky, Bruckner (delirious with admiration), Grieg, Liszt, Kaiser Wilhelm, the mad King Ludwig (incognito), and the great conductor, Hans Richter. Disappointed, Nietsche walked out.
Scroop Moth, that would be something to talk about!
I know that Wagner’s music was not as highly appreciated in his day as it is now. It was too new.
Woodstock…not.
To see a Shakespear play in the real Globe.
The ‘89 The Wall concert at the Berlin Wall.
Def. U2…Joshua Tree and ZOO TV.
Josephine Baker in Paris.
Picasso with his missing ear.
P.T. Barnum.
Ben Hur…before celluloid…I’ve heard it was an awesome stage event.
Harry Houdini.
The Beatles’ rooftop concert.
One of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s parties.
I’m a little surprised to see that no one has mentioned Queen.
Queen would have been wonderful before Freddie died. They still tour, with Paul Rodgers on vocals, but there’s no way it could be anywhere near as good.
I’d love to go back and see Mark Heard, especially near the end of his life when he was writing his best material.
I wish I’d seen Kiss when I was a teenager and they were at their height.
I’d love to go back in time and see R.E.M. around the Lifes Rich Pageant era, just before they hit it big. (A friend of mine saw them in a tiny club in Tuscaloosa on one of their very first tours.)
And U2 touring the Joshua Tree album would have been great.
I like the idea of listening to David on his harp.
Asaph’s choir in the temple in Jerusalem.
Bach.
Keith Green
Rich Mullins
The Strausses in Vienna.
The Boston Pops Arthur Fiedler or John Williams at Saratoga Springs, NY
Jimmy Buffett because I’m a Parrothead and have never been able to get a ticket to any of his concerts around here. They sell out in less than half a day. (But I would have liked to see him in the 80s)
Chuck Mangione playing in front of an upstate NY hometown crowd.
Bon Jovi (Love Zambora’s guitar)
Brad Paisley - again for his guitar
Vince Gill - guitar again.
Patsy at the Grand Ol’ Oprey.
Garth Brooks before his first retirement.
Steve Taylor at just about any concert or venue.
And of course, your essential list of great composers, such as Beethoven, Bach, Mozart, Handel, Vivaldi, Chopin, etc.
That said, I’ve always wanted to see a live performance of Carmina Burana.
Yoshiyahu: I saw Steve Taylor on the Squint tour, and also got to interview him (by phone a few weeks before the show). He was excellent. It’s too bad he’s retired from music and I’m hoping he’ll be coaxed back into the studio at some point.
That must have been amazing. Unfortunately, I was either a very small child (or not even born) for most of his career, so I never really had the opportunity.