10-05-2014, 02:28 PM
10/4
It was a short ride to get there - in fact, we could have walked. It was hot, but that made for a perfect night downtown, with free snacks (rich chocolate truffles, fresh strawberry short cake, various other appetizers) and live jazz, available on the roped off street outside. Nice crowd, mostly gray haired. It was also the 100th anniversary of the wharf, so there were fireworks during intermission.
Bernstein: Overture to Candide - sounded like the bastard child of John Williams and Carl Stalling, but it was actually the other way around.
Ades: In Seven Days - an ambitious new piece (describe the 7 days when God created all in one short piece) quite daring for SC symphony, complete with video and a virtuoso pianist from Germany who played the original performance of this in 2008. It had a diverse percussion section with several instruments I've never seen or heard before. Very impressive actually, evocative and jazzy. We almost skipped it because the Civic can be so stuffy and with the heat, well, we're glad we didn't.
Mozart: Symphony #41 in C - his final symphony, although probably not intentionally so. No composer captures a live orchestra like Mozart. He's like the Beatles to Rock - he just nails that sound and style - arguably the epitome of the genre. You could poach almost any musical phrase and dumb it down into a pop song - the compositions are that dense. The fireworks were still going and one major boom timed out with the music, which brought rounds of applause and smiles to the conductor and performers. It was a great show, and it made me feel young.
It was a short ride to get there - in fact, we could have walked. It was hot, but that made for a perfect night downtown, with free snacks (rich chocolate truffles, fresh strawberry short cake, various other appetizers) and live jazz, available on the roped off street outside. Nice crowd, mostly gray haired. It was also the 100th anniversary of the wharf, so there were fireworks during intermission.
Bernstein: Overture to Candide - sounded like the bastard child of John Williams and Carl Stalling, but it was actually the other way around.
Ades: In Seven Days - an ambitious new piece (describe the 7 days when God created all in one short piece) quite daring for SC symphony, complete with video and a virtuoso pianist from Germany who played the original performance of this in 2008. It had a diverse percussion section with several instruments I've never seen or heard before. Very impressive actually, evocative and jazzy. We almost skipped it because the Civic can be so stuffy and with the heat, well, we're glad we didn't.
Mozart: Symphony #41 in C - his final symphony, although probably not intentionally so. No composer captures a live orchestra like Mozart. He's like the Beatles to Rock - he just nails that sound and style - arguably the epitome of the genre. You could poach almost any musical phrase and dumb it down into a pop song - the compositions are that dense. The fireworks were still going and one major boom timed out with the music, which brought rounds of applause and smiles to the conductor and performers. It was a great show, and it made me feel young.
Shadow boxing the apocalypse