02-12-2022, 11:32 PM
(This post was last modified: 02-12-2022, 11:34 PM by Drunk Monk.)
BEETHOVEN: Coriolan Overture
Soundtrack music. It was written for a play, a Greek tragedy. Ludwig van doing John Williams. Meh.
BEETHOVEN: Moonlight Sonata arr. for strings, featuring Amanda Gorman’s “The Hill We Climb”
Who doesn't love Moonlight Sonata? Only it was symphonic, no piano and there was this poem read over it by Muhammad. The poem, being Gorman, was very woke, but we just wanted to hear the orchestra.
TRADITIONAL/MUHAMMAD: Butterfly Jig
Muhammad is a jazz singer and harpist. She was accompanied by a standing bass and drums. Suddenly we were in a jazz concert. If we wanted to hear jazz, we'd've bought tix to Kumbwaa.
MUHAMMAD: We Are the Ones (arr. Matt Wong)
This piece added a piano and more orchestral accompaniment, but it almost de-evolved into a broadway number, plus Muhammad asked us to do a call response sing-a-long. Look, the only sing-a-longs that the symphony set do is Haydn's Messiah and I already took down our xmas lights. The jazz was okay but we came for the symphony. WTH does this have to do with Ludwig van's 250th anyway?
CHIN: Subito con Forza
An intense modern piece based on Ludwig van's notebooks (because he was deaf, he wrote to communicate and left lots of notebooks. This piece was gripping - lots of musical quotes - much more like it.
BEETHOVEN/STEWART: String Quartet no. 15, op 132, mov. 3: Holy Song of Thanks (arr. Daniel Stewart)
A staggering piece especially considering that it was written in the last years of Ludwig van's life when he was deaf. I would've rather heard it stripped down as just the quartet instead of the orchestral arrangement, but at one point they fell back to a foursome, and Nigel (lead violin) showed his stuff. That's particularly exciting now because our seats are 3rd row, center aisle, which gives us a clear view of Nigel and the Maestro.
BEETHOVEN: Symphony no. 6 (Pastoral) mov 5: Happy and Thankful Feelings after the Storm
All 9 of the symphonies are masterpieces and it's always moving to hear them live. This was wonderful, redeeming the jazz tangent of the evening. It's the kind of performance that keeps us going to the symphony.
Soundtrack music. It was written for a play, a Greek tragedy. Ludwig van doing John Williams. Meh.
BEETHOVEN: Moonlight Sonata arr. for strings, featuring Amanda Gorman’s “The Hill We Climb”
Who doesn't love Moonlight Sonata? Only it was symphonic, no piano and there was this poem read over it by Muhammad. The poem, being Gorman, was very woke, but we just wanted to hear the orchestra.
TRADITIONAL/MUHAMMAD: Butterfly Jig
Muhammad is a jazz singer and harpist. She was accompanied by a standing bass and drums. Suddenly we were in a jazz concert. If we wanted to hear jazz, we'd've bought tix to Kumbwaa.
MUHAMMAD: We Are the Ones (arr. Matt Wong)
This piece added a piano and more orchestral accompaniment, but it almost de-evolved into a broadway number, plus Muhammad asked us to do a call response sing-a-long. Look, the only sing-a-longs that the symphony set do is Haydn's Messiah and I already took down our xmas lights. The jazz was okay but we came for the symphony. WTH does this have to do with Ludwig van's 250th anyway?
CHIN: Subito con Forza
An intense modern piece based on Ludwig van's notebooks (because he was deaf, he wrote to communicate and left lots of notebooks. This piece was gripping - lots of musical quotes - much more like it.
BEETHOVEN/STEWART: String Quartet no. 15, op 132, mov. 3: Holy Song of Thanks (arr. Daniel Stewart)
A staggering piece especially considering that it was written in the last years of Ludwig van's life when he was deaf. I would've rather heard it stripped down as just the quartet instead of the orchestral arrangement, but at one point they fell back to a foursome, and Nigel (lead violin) showed his stuff. That's particularly exciting now because our seats are 3rd row, center aisle, which gives us a clear view of Nigel and the Maestro.
BEETHOVEN: Symphony no. 6 (Pastoral) mov 5: Happy and Thankful Feelings after the Storm
All 9 of the symphonies are masterpieces and it's always moving to hear them live. This was wonderful, redeeming the jazz tangent of the evening. It's the kind of performance that keeps us going to the symphony.
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