What's the last LIVE concert you attended!

Yesterday afternoon I saw MartinoTirimo play a programme of Chopin for the Chopin Society in London.

Simply heavenly!!!

Nov 11th at Casa da Música (Porto, Portugal)

https://casadamusica.com/event/os-carmina-burana/

In the program there was:

Richard Wagner Abertura de Tannhaüser

Harrison Birtwistle Machaut à ma manière

Carl Orff Os Carmina Burana

Even knowing Carmina Burana very well, watching it live is undoubtedly an incredible experience. 🤩 🥰

End of September this year:  Lang Lang in solo recital in Vancouver BC playing the Goldberg Variations.  Divine!  Worth the price of admission, as they say.

U2 at the Sphere in Vegas...absolutely amazing.

St. Louis Symphony Orchestra (SLSO) is the second oldest orchestra in the USA! It was founded in 1880. (The New York Philharmonic is the oldest. It was founded in 1842.)

I attended this concert of the SLSO earlier this month. It was wonderful!

Vitezslava Kapralova - Rustic Suite, op. 19

Erich Wolfgang Korngold - Violin Concerto in D major, op. 35 - Randall Goosby, violin

Antonin Dvorak - Symphony No. 7 in D minor, op. 70

There were several busloads of high school students who attended. After the concert there was a Q & A with the soloist, Randall Goosby.  (I didn't attend that, but I imagine it was fun.)

Wow...that takes me back a bit. I'm thinking it was Al Jarreau. I enjoyed concerts when the venues were smaller. Now that they are in huge settings, I don't go. I've seen more theatrical presentations and musicals in smaller, more intimate venues, and will continue to go to those.

Not a concert per se - "An Evening with Itzhak Perlman". What a great story teller! Oh BTW, he can play the violin...

Ah, it's been too long. However, I received tickets to the below concert as a birthday present.😃

https://www.berwaldhallen.se/en/concert/harding-meets-andsnes/

Joyce DiDonata with a jazz/tango band.  She started the concert by saying that everyone was probalby expecting opera but she was bringing something else: programme attached.

She was terrific of course.  She used a chromatic run a couple of times across most of her range, in which the half tones were imperceptible.  

20240317_Joyce DiDonata_concert 

Earlier this year attended a chamber music festival whose theme was "the four elements of nature" (that is: earth, wind, fire and water). I bought a ticket to the water themed concert mainly because I wanted to hear Mariko Furukawa play Ravel's Jeux d'eau. It was wonderful, but I was also very impressed by the rest of the program which I had no preconcieved notions about: Towards the Sea III by Tōru Takemitsu and Vox Balaenae by George Crumb. I often go to concerts because I want to hear a certain piece and most of the time the rest of the program is a pleasant surprise to me. 

Just have to say this. This was a phenomenal show from last night for Rachmaninov’s Symphonic Dances with the phenomenal pianist Mackenzie Melemed! Extremely technically challenging and physically demanding piece. It worked out so well with our local ESO musicians who have stuck around and worked together as a team for years. The audiences, especially the elderly are deeply moved by this show!

I’m in week three of our Seattle Chamber Music Society’s summer festival. Each week features various pianists: Andrew Armstrong, Alessio Bax, Inon Barnatan, Orion Weiss and Jean-Efflam Bavouzet next week, just to name a few. Virtual tickets for live performances are awesome for anyone out of town interested in hearing all the exceptional performers from around the world. What a treat!

Two back-to-back evenings of Yuncham Lim playing Rach 2 with the Baltimore Symphony this past April.

Pianist Yunchan Lim and conductor Marin Alsop performing Rachmaninoffs Piano Concerto no 2 with the BSO in Baltimore!

It was Janine Jansen with New Amsterdam Sinfonietta playing Bach. It was very inspiring