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More notes listened to.
Feb. 21st, 2020 11:56 amThis time, all Dvorak, all the time. Budapest Festival Orchestra in Hill Auditorium. Very good. They did an encore that I missed the name of as I was closing the hall doors. Some of the full orchestra who did not play in the first half of the concert sat in the mezzanine for that part of the concert - they said that they'd been told that Hill Auditorium was a very good performance hall and wanted to experience it. I told them to sit in the front of the mezzanine so that they were not under the balcony - the sound is better there than it is under the balcony, where it's still very good.
The first half of the concert was not-quite-full-orchestra for a violin concerto and a couple of folk-song settings. There was also a "mixed choir" of orchestra musicians - after the orchestral folk-songs, the musicians put down their instruments and pulled out a sheaf of choral music, which they then proceeded to sing acappella (after a starting note from the concertmaster).
I guess it makes sense that an orchestra could sing acappella -- I have heard more than one person in the FCB make comments to the effect that the band stays on key/in tune better than the choir they sing in. (Good choirs, too, not the tiny-church type which can't stay in tune with the piano playing every bleeding note.)
I started off the day with a half-day of election worker training - it's been four years since my last training, and I think three years since I worked an election, so probably not a bad idea. I got sent to Absentee Voter Board training, which is shorter, as AV workers have less tracking of voters/ballots to do, but many more ballots to process. Currently, we're starting at 9am with the plan of being done by 8:15pm or so. A short day, as elections go. That may change, if the clerk gets a lot more ballots in.
The first half of the concert was not-quite-full-orchestra for a violin concerto and a couple of folk-song settings. There was also a "mixed choir" of orchestra musicians - after the orchestral folk-songs, the musicians put down their instruments and pulled out a sheaf of choral music, which they then proceeded to sing acappella (after a starting note from the concertmaster).
I guess it makes sense that an orchestra could sing acappella -- I have heard more than one person in the FCB make comments to the effect that the band stays on key/in tune better than the choir they sing in. (Good choirs, too, not the tiny-church type which can't stay in tune with the piano playing every bleeding note.)
I started off the day with a half-day of election worker training - it's been four years since my last training, and I think three years since I worked an election, so probably not a bad idea. I got sent to Absentee Voter Board training, which is shorter, as AV workers have less tracking of voters/ballots to do, but many more ballots to process. Currently, we're starting at 9am with the plan of being done by 8:15pm or so. A short day, as elections go. That may change, if the clerk gets a lot more ballots in.
