Fish, Rossini, and Mahler
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pegkerrFelicia Herman had won tickets to a Minnesota Orchestra concert at the Ordway last night and invited me to take the second ticket ("because Joel ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
joelrosenberg [her husband] really doesn't like Mahler"). I was delighted to be the recipient of the second ticket. Guess the last concert I attended was last November, when I was down in Georgia visiting my parents.
We went for dinner at Sakura in St. Paul, just a few blocks from the Ordway. Dinner at Sakura meant sushi, of course. I am not knowledgeable about sushi at all, unlike Felicia. I can recognize and differentiate between the tuna and the salmon, and I know that you mix the wasabi with the soy sauce, but confronted by eight or nine different varieties on my plate, I'm hard pressed to be able to identify more than three of them, much less to venture decided opinions about my preferences. I did eat them, with pleasure--until I ran out of room. We asked for a take out container for my leftovers for Felicia to take home to Joel. ("In my house, it'll never go to waste, believe me.")
We had excellent seats at the Ordway, in the front section (very much more expensive than I would have ever willingly spent, so it was a real treat to have them). The Minnesota Orchestra is just home from a very successful European tour. They had a guest conductor leading the orchestra for this particular performance, Thomas Dausgaard, rather than the Orchestra's new Music Director, Osmo Vänskä. The orchestra certainly sounded together and tight, and able to turn on a dime in the trickiest passages. The first half of the concert was Rossini, his rarely-performed overture to Semiramide, and a just recently discovered concerto in B-flat major for bassoon and orchestra. (We suspected that the people directly to our right might have been students of the bassoonist, because when the concerto was concluded they cheered, as Felicia remarked, as if they were at a rock concert).
I had some champagne at intermission, very pleasant, but it made it a tad bit difficult to concentrate fully on the Mahler (his Fourth Symphony.). I believe I enjoyed the third movement the best, the Adadio.
An excellent evening, all around.
I noted with interest two upcoming events advertised in the program book. Renée Fleming will be appearing in February of 2005 with the Shubert Club.
And A.S. Byatt is coming to the U of MN for a lecture on April 17. Hmm. Must see if Rob is working that night.
joelrosenberg [her husband] really doesn't like Mahler"). I was delighted to be the recipient of the second ticket. Guess the last concert I attended was last November, when I was down in Georgia visiting my parents.We went for dinner at Sakura in St. Paul, just a few blocks from the Ordway. Dinner at Sakura meant sushi, of course. I am not knowledgeable about sushi at all, unlike Felicia. I can recognize and differentiate between the tuna and the salmon, and I know that you mix the wasabi with the soy sauce, but confronted by eight or nine different varieties on my plate, I'm hard pressed to be able to identify more than three of them, much less to venture decided opinions about my preferences. I did eat them, with pleasure--until I ran out of room. We asked for a take out container for my leftovers for Felicia to take home to Joel. ("In my house, it'll never go to waste, believe me.")
We had excellent seats at the Ordway, in the front section (very much more expensive than I would have ever willingly spent, so it was a real treat to have them). The Minnesota Orchestra is just home from a very successful European tour. They had a guest conductor leading the orchestra for this particular performance, Thomas Dausgaard, rather than the Orchestra's new Music Director, Osmo Vänskä. The orchestra certainly sounded together and tight, and able to turn on a dime in the trickiest passages. The first half of the concert was Rossini, his rarely-performed overture to Semiramide, and a just recently discovered concerto in B-flat major for bassoon and orchestra. (We suspected that the people directly to our right might have been students of the bassoonist, because when the concerto was concluded they cheered, as Felicia remarked, as if they were at a rock concert).
I had some champagne at intermission, very pleasant, but it made it a tad bit difficult to concentrate fully on the Mahler (his Fourth Symphony.). I believe I enjoyed the third movement the best, the Adadio.
An excellent evening, all around.
I noted with interest two upcoming events advertised in the program book. Renée Fleming will be appearing in February of 2005 with the Shubert Club.
And A.S. Byatt is coming to the U of MN for a lecture on April 17. Hmm. Must see if Rob is working that night.
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Date: 2004-04-05 05:08 am (UTC)Nah.
Date: 2004-04-06 09:52 am (UTC)Me, I'm glad that both of you enjoyed yourself. Much better than having me fall asleep -- if I'm lucky -- before the first movement finished.