I’m just home from San Francisco Symphony and too tired to really write, but what a great concert! The oboes and English horn sounded great. The brass … wow!
It was entirely enjoyable, aside from one first violinist. That player was such a puzzlement, bowing differently at times, completely stopping for brief moments when all the other violinists were playing, staring off into the audience and sometimes at the brass, and at one point appeared to be making some kind of joke to the stand partner. The second half the player behaved a bit better some of the time (enough so that Dan never got to see the shenanigans) and for some reason had no stand partner that half. Odd. Maybe I’m just overly critical, but I was sure distracted! (And, since Dan didn’t notice a thing, I did wonder if I was just imagining all of this … I’m that insecure, go figure.)
Anyway, bravi tutti to the San Francisco Symphony musicians and Maestro Michael Tilson Thomas. As if they care what this little person thinks. (They don’t read this blog in any case.)
Okay, I’m not all that little. But you know what I mean. 🙂
