concert update
Nov. 11th, 2007 09:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
calimac1. The evening before my departure for Ditto, I was feeling tired and out of sorts, and wondering why I had agreed to get up early the next morning and go, and even pick up someone at the airport on the way. Brahms's Third Symphony, as played by Symphony Silicon Valley under George Cleve, proved to be just the tonic. I felt much better afterwards, and the next day everything was fine.
2. Rob Kapilow is a guy who goes around giving musically-illustrated lectures on the topic of "What Makes It Great?" He talks very fast with a New York accent and sounds remarkably like![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
sandial. He brought his schtick to Stanford recently; the "It" on this occasion was Vivaldi's Four Seasons, and he answered his question in the form of a phrase analysis. Not bad, though how much of it sailed over the heads of any auditors not used to this sort of thing, I know not.
3. Ensemble Mirable Chamber Orchestra played concertos by Vivaldi, Bach, and Georg Matthias Monn (now that's a name you don't find in concert too often: an early Viennese classicist). Very nice sound mixed with occasional strange out-of-tune passages.
2. Rob Kapilow is a guy who goes around giving musically-illustrated lectures on the topic of "What Makes It Great?" He talks very fast with a New York accent and sounds remarkably like
sandial. He brought his schtick to Stanford recently; the "It" on this occasion was Vivaldi's Four Seasons, and he answered his question in the form of a phrase analysis. Not bad, though how much of it sailed over the heads of any auditors not used to this sort of thing, I know not.3. Ensemble Mirable Chamber Orchestra played concertos by Vivaldi, Bach, and Georg Matthias Monn (now that's a name you don't find in concert too often: an early Viennese classicist). Very nice sound mixed with occasional strange out-of-tune passages.
