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01-31-2020, 11:48 PM
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Went to the free rehearsal tonight. Why haven't I been going to these all along? So fun. Danny's mastery as the maestro really shines as he breaks it down for the orchestra. They skip about, grappling with the hardest passages, Danny conducting so passionately. His descriptions and commands are so eloquent. Just fascinating. Tomorrow is Mahler #5. I sat in the 2nd row, right by the percussion section, and this is a percussive heavy piece.
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02-02-2020, 12:03 AM
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A fine piece - all over the place. Mahler isn't a fav of Stacy's. Me neither really. I respect the magnitude of his compositions, but they can be difficult to follow - like a few dozen movie soundtracks tossed in a blender. We have new seats, house right, second row up the stairs by the backstage hallway. It's close to percussion, which I always enjoy, and really close to stage, plus the hallway offers better ventilation which is a big issue at the civic. These will be our seats for the rest of the season.
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Tomorrow would've been RAPTURE, featuring one of my all time favs, Carmina Burana.
We also missed METAMORPHOSIS which was scheduled for March 28, but that was Prokofief, a composer I don't really know.
We did get refunds for our season tix.
Having another sad.
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