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twoeleventuesday evening we heard the first DSO chamber concert of the season. the first piece was a new piece by peter schickele, better known under his secret identity, PDQ bach. we got to hear was what was apparently the second performance ever of his "six studies for b-flat clarinet and bassoon", a suite of six short works for those instruments. i liked it, but i'm a sucker for woodwinds; they have such a pleasant sound.
the middle work was jean françaix's "trio for violin, viola, and violoncello", which was light and fluffy music. the performance was technically a quartete, since the violinist was extremely pregnant. gotta start 'em young if ya want virtuosity.
the last pice was beethoven's "septet in e-flat major" (opus 20), a piece he wrote when he was still learning about composition. it sounds nothing like mature beethoven. dïe überblönde said it sounded like young beethoven, but if you hadn't told me who wrote it, i would have said it was just light and fluffy late classical music, not otherwise distinguished. we're both right, but dïe überblönde was more right.
we enjoyed the performance, but apparently the nosharei available at intermission was bad, as we were both sick on wednesday.
the DSO started its orchestral season back in september, but the performance was so unremarkable that all i remember is the national anthem and the lone ranger theme (the overture to rossini's william tell, which is actually a much longer work than the mighty heigh-ho silver bit). unfortunately, i seem to have lost the program for that concert, which mentioned the name of the guy behind the lone ranger radio show. he decided he'd sneak some classical music into the show, thus making the william tell overture one of the most recognized (if not named) pieces of orchestral music in america.
dïe überblönde and i had put together a list of well-known classical works on the way home, but i can't find that either. drat. i remember it included "o, fortuna" from orff's carmina burana, beethoven's fifth symphony, the ride of the valkyrie, the blue danube waltz, and a few other pieces, mostly known from movies. (we deliberately excluded movie music, even though there's not much difference between it and orchestral opera music in form or purpose.)
i watched the lego movie yesterday. it's harmless. in places, it's very funny, but in other places, it rather drags, and nothing can change the fact that it's a two-hour-long advertisement for toys.
the middle work was jean françaix's "trio for violin, viola, and violoncello", which was light and fluffy music. the performance was technically a quartete, since the violinist was extremely pregnant. gotta start 'em young if ya want virtuosity.
the last pice was beethoven's "septet in e-flat major" (opus 20), a piece he wrote when he was still learning about composition. it sounds nothing like mature beethoven. dïe überblönde said it sounded like young beethoven, but if you hadn't told me who wrote it, i would have said it was just light and fluffy late classical music, not otherwise distinguished. we're both right, but dïe überblönde was more right.
we enjoyed the performance, but apparently the nosharei available at intermission was bad, as we were both sick on wednesday.
the DSO started its orchestral season back in september, but the performance was so unremarkable that all i remember is the national anthem and the lone ranger theme (the overture to rossini's william tell, which is actually a much longer work than the mighty heigh-ho silver bit). unfortunately, i seem to have lost the program for that concert, which mentioned the name of the guy behind the lone ranger radio show. he decided he'd sneak some classical music into the show, thus making the william tell overture one of the most recognized (if not named) pieces of orchestral music in america.
dïe überblönde and i had put together a list of well-known classical works on the way home, but i can't find that either. drat. i remember it included "o, fortuna" from orff's carmina burana, beethoven's fifth symphony, the ride of the valkyrie, the blue danube waltz, and a few other pieces, mostly known from movies. (we deliberately excluded movie music, even though there's not much difference between it and orchestral opera music in form or purpose.)
i watched the lego movie yesterday. it's harmless. in places, it's very funny, but in other places, it rather drags, and nothing can change the fact that it's a two-hour-long advertisement for toys.