I believe I met the two women who have this blog and one of them posted a blog entry about the symphony concert we bloggers were invited to attend. She doesn’t mention the invitation or the festivities, but she does give her review of the concert. As far as “themed programming” … well … I’ve [...]
Archive of entries posted on 20th July 2007
Wanna Take This Poll?
Who Wants to Abuse an Orchestra asks: Which would you rather see? Cheap Trick with an orchestra The Decemberists with an orchestra Clay Aiken and friends with an orchestra The Trans-Siberian Orchestra Just an orchestra by itself I’m sure you all know me well enough to know I’d go with the last choice. But if [...]
Rush Hour
I just landed here and I am going to be thinking about this idea for a good long time, I think. Part of me thinks that we can’t be all things to all people — that some folks won’t like it no matter what the site says. But the noisier part of me says, “Hey, [...]
You May Have Noticed
… that I didn’t really review the San Francisco Symphony concert I attended as a “Citizen Blogger”. Nope. Not gonna happen. I don’t “do” reviews. It’s not my style. But Dan did a brief “non-review” (his word) you can read if you’d like. Am I qualified to review a concert? I think so. I just [...]
Back Home
So I drove over the hill, met with a potential student, and drove home. When I do something like that I’m always in a bit of a daze by the time I get back in the house. Part of it is that I spent nearly twice as much time on the road as in the [...]
MQOD
… and yet the only vehicle for expressing all of this are the preordained notes and ancient text which have been (divinely?) scribbled down by an old man over a century before. How ridiculous it seems on the one hand, and yet how rapturously sublime. -Joyce DiDonato (RTWT)
I Like This!
“Mr. Pattyoboe”. :-) And yes, lots of subs in the orchestra. Some I knew; Andy in the bass section, Alex in the horns, James in the oboes … and there were more. That’s the way summer works. Musicians … well … some actually do the vacation thing. Others are doing summer music festivals. (I forgot, [...]
Do I Care?
I guess I’m not a “classical music purist” because this article suggests I’d be unhappy with the “Big Duh” ads by Hyundai. And I’m not. I don’t care. Hmmm. Perhaps I’m not as uptight as a particular horn player (see bottom of that post) might think. ;-) (Truth be told, some non-oboe players have suggested [...]