You can get pan pipes and yet there is no oboe here.
What’s up with that?!
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There’s a site that allows the average joe to review anything. Of course this means you know nothing about the person’s qualifications. A review, though, might provide enough insight to allow one to make a choice whether or not to go to something or eat at a certain resaurant, right? But read this one and let me know if it was helpful:
To be fair, this is based on one performance and a bit of intuition.
On the basis of that performance, would I go to hear Symphony Silicon Valley again? Yes, if the program was good, I’d really like to give them another shot. If the program was of no interest, I don’t think the Symphony would sell me through force of performance alone. I’d say this symphony is in the “only as good as the material” class.
The California Theatre was a really nice venue. We had mid-range tickets I selected in the mezzanine and the sight was good and acoustics were terrific except the lower notes from the double bass, which disappeared. A great view, comfortable seats, good looking theater.
You can check out their interactive seating plan at http://www.symphonysilic… : just roll over the spots and it will show you the view from many sections. Nice feature.
Overall, we had a good night — the program was the problem probably more than the Symphony itself.
01/31/2007
What a funny little review. (I’m guessing the person went to the Mark O’Connor concert, just going by the review date.)
I was going to comment more about this “review”, but I’m tired; today was my final day at UCSC for the school year; Becky & Alicia, pictures coming to you soon and I’d love to post them here too! 🙂 I’d better rest up for the three private students I have this afternoon.
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… really! And for only $16.95. You’d never have to go hear someone play “Chopin’s Minute Waltz” again.
Buy one.
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I like to warn you of spam scams. Here’s another, received today:
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Don’t bother responding. You know it can’t be legit.
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What love is to man, music is to the arts and to mankind. music is love itself, — it is the purest, most ethereal language of passion, showing in a thousand ways all possible changes of colour and feeling; and though true in only a single instance, it yet can be understood by thousands of men — who all feel differently.
-Carl Maria von Weber
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