We are just home from the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra concert. I can’t blog; I’m simply far too tired. But I’m not sure how much I’d say anyway, as I don’t review these things. So just a couple of notes:
We had fantastic seats, although I couldn’t see the principal oboist.
I could see Russ deLuna. He appeared to be playing kind of slanted to the left. Might have been where I was sitting, though.
They seated latecomers between the two movements of the Schuman. I found it disruptive. (So was the coughing between every movement of the Beethoven.)
This orchestra moves very little. Very, very little. The most movement (still minimal) was by the always fabulous Stephen Paulson.
For the life of me I didn’t remember the solo string parts in the last movement of the Beethoven. That was a surprise.
MTT must do ballet on the side.
It was thoroughly enjoyable … and especially the Schuman! Something new. Something I’ll be downloading from emusic.
Thanks, SFSO, for a very lovely night on the town!
(I missed Project Runway just for you. 😉
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I noticed the excessive coughing at SFO’s concert last Saturday as well. I guess a LOT of people in SF have been sick!
My violinist friend R.A. noticed something interesting about the musicians in that orchestra — none of them are at all overweight. We wondered if that was intentional or just an accident.
MTT is certainly a stick (no pun intended!) especially when viewed from the back. My partner James, who’s very visual, thinks MTT ought to get a personal dresser. His slacks were baggy and flopped in a distracting way whenever he crouched on the podium, which was often.
Okay, okay — back to the Music! 😉
There were a couple of overweight musicians that I saw. I won’t, of course, name them! 😉
I thought it odd that MTT wore a suit and the men had to wear tails. Why not all suits? The soloist, too, wore tails. Hmm.