Bands vs. weather 2024, 2-1
Jun. 14th, 2024 09:42 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jennlkThe Livingston band record is 2-0. Technically, it's 3-0, but I'm not counting the concert that I didn't play.
I missed the last LCCB concert because I was ushering at Hill Auditorium. YoYo Ma and Kayhan Kalhor previewed a double concerto (Venus in the Mirror) that Kalhor wrote for kamancheh and cello. The concerto was fine, but it was my least favorite piece on the program. Like a lot of contemporary classical music, it didn't really seem to *go* anywhere -- long, slow, legato noodling; faster but still legato noodling; not quite as slow and a little less legato noodling. The Orchestra of the Americas is really good. Respighi's Pines of Rome is really impressive with an organ! The orchestra did two encores - Ginastera's Danza Finale (which I have played, but not that fast or that well. OTOH, I'm sure they rehearsed it more than we ever did), and a piece that the director wrote and is mostly improv. There was fiddle and flute and violin and cello and trumpet and one of the horn players got up and danced during the percussion improv, etc. It was a very long concert -- I left here at 5pm and didn't get home until nearly midnight. Worth it, though.
The Farmington band is 0-1. Last night (Thursday), J and I trundled off to Farmington for the Stars in the Park concert, sponsored by Farmington Hills Parks. There was a bank of dark clouds following us all the way there. The Parks commission cancelled the concert before 6pm, because the predictive radars were inconclusive about how much rain/wind the park would get during the concert. We tore down the band setup, helped the site boss clear and load their stuff, and sat around and chatted for a while. And then it actually started raining! Not very hard, but I didn't have to be there anymore, so J and I left. We did get rained on for the first 20 minutes of the drive home.
In work related news, we got the ballots yesterday. That means that next week is going to be all about getting ballots into the mail.
(edit for clarity. fooey)
I missed the last LCCB concert because I was ushering at Hill Auditorium. YoYo Ma and Kayhan Kalhor previewed a double concerto (Venus in the Mirror) that Kalhor wrote for kamancheh and cello. The concerto was fine, but it was my least favorite piece on the program. Like a lot of contemporary classical music, it didn't really seem to *go* anywhere -- long, slow, legato noodling; faster but still legato noodling; not quite as slow and a little less legato noodling. The Orchestra of the Americas is really good. Respighi's Pines of Rome is really impressive with an organ! The orchestra did two encores - Ginastera's Danza Finale (which I have played, but not that fast or that well. OTOH, I'm sure they rehearsed it more than we ever did), and a piece that the director wrote and is mostly improv. There was fiddle and flute and violin and cello and trumpet and one of the horn players got up and danced during the percussion improv, etc. It was a very long concert -- I left here at 5pm and didn't get home until nearly midnight. Worth it, though.
The Farmington band is 0-1. Last night (Thursday), J and I trundled off to Farmington for the Stars in the Park concert, sponsored by Farmington Hills Parks. There was a bank of dark clouds following us all the way there. The Parks commission cancelled the concert before 6pm, because the predictive radars were inconclusive about how much rain/wind the park would get during the concert. We tore down the band setup, helped the site boss clear and load their stuff, and sat around and chatted for a while. And then it actually started raining! Not very hard, but I didn't have to be there anymore, so J and I left. We did get rained on for the first 20 minutes of the drive home.
In work related news, we got the ballots yesterday. That means that next week is going to be all about getting ballots into the mail.
(edit for clarity. fooey)
