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concert review: Prometheus Symphony
Jun. 6th, 2005 06:53 pmIt never rains but it pours, doesn't it? Less than two weeks after driving all the way to Salinas to hear Gluck's Iphigenie en Aulide Overture for the first time in thirty years, I got to hear it again on Sunday, from this nonprofessional orchestra that performs occasional free concerts in a resonant brick church in Oakland. What are the odds?
Pretty good performance for amateurs; only the trumpets, of all things, were seriously out of tune. Bloch's Schelomo, with a solo cellist from the San Francisco Youth Symphony who was actually pretty good, and Mendelssohn's Midsummer Night's Dream suite followed, in a somewhat haphazard but pleasant way.
Also on this date made an excursion to the hidden city of Gondolin for a birthday party, where many things from the Oakland Symphony production of Bernstein's Mass to directorial overintepretation in theatre to the propensity of cats to run away from two-year-olds to the glories of Wiscon and the Google cafeteria to Tolkien's best female characters were discussed. Several LJers present; hi!
Pretty good performance for amateurs; only the trumpets, of all things, were seriously out of tune. Bloch's Schelomo, with a solo cellist from the San Francisco Youth Symphony who was actually pretty good, and Mendelssohn's Midsummer Night's Dream suite followed, in a somewhat haphazard but pleasant way.
Also on this date made an excursion to the hidden city of Gondolin for a birthday party, where many things from the Oakland Symphony production of Bernstein's Mass to directorial overintepretation in theatre to the propensity of cats to run away from two-year-olds to the glories of Wiscon and the Google cafeteria to Tolkien's best female characters were discussed. Several LJers present; hi!
