8 April 2010
Last symphony until June
Just found tickets from last November at the ASO where we heard a chamber group performing Bernstein's "Prelude, Fugue and Riffs". Outstanding mix of jazz; one of the more respectful of his borrowings. World premiere of Wynton Marsalis's Blues Symphony. I felt it was just nice. Also Olli Mustonen performing Ravel's Piano Concerto in G maj. Prompted me to purchase the score and learn the slow movement (done, working on memorizing now).
Last Thursday, Bach and more Stravinsky (this time Pulcinella and Firebird, matching previous concerts' Petroushka and Rite of Spring). Beautiful performance of Bach's keyboard concerto by Dinnerstein with a pared down string orchestra.
Created a playlist of Marsalis discussing his symphony at the keyboard (no entry yet on Wikipedia):
- Seattle and music posted by sstrader on 29 August 2016 at 9:00:30 PM
- The music and the cinema and the theater posted by sstrader on 13 July 2016 at 8:33:57 PM
- The vinyl and the concert posted by sstrader on 21 May 2016 at 1:59:26 PM
- Big Ears 2010 posted by sstrader on 12 April 2016 at 2:44:22 PM
- Where was I? posted by sstrader on 9 January 2016 at 10:35:51 AM