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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. -
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.)
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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/
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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.
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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.