Saturday, October 23, 2010

[October 10] London: The London Symphony... again!

A couple of weeks ago I went to see the London Symphony Orchestra perform... again! This time I just went by myself. The violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter performed a Dvorak violin concerto first half of the performance which was spectacular... My goodness! She looks so elegant and it doesn't seem fair for a woman to be that gifted at the violin AND look that amazing! It was so exciting to see her live... to have such command over a violin is, I feel, to have command over a piece of music, which can be kinda transcending on several levels...

Then for the second half of the concert, the London Symphony Chorus performed WITH the orchestra. The performed Glagolitic Mass by Janacek which I have never heard of before but it was really powerful and SO many people onstage working together like that to create something so thrilling is just hard to comprehend. I counted approximately 150 people onstage. As I sat there listening, I kept having to remind myself: the music is being created right in front of me here. This is LIVE. I will experience this and then it will disappear into thin air. 

Of course, it kind of made me miss my youth symphony days. The feeling of playing in a full orchestra is such a rush... 

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