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Last Night's Concert
Topic Started: Feb 20 2015, 06:42 AM (240 Views)
George K
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Went to the CSO last night. Rudolph Buchbinder played the Mozart d minor concerto #24. Muti conducted the CSO. I wasn't familiar with Buchbinder, but I went away really impressed. He seemed to have a power that didn't overcome his delicacy playing Mozart. The d-minor is a dark work, but he didn't make it morose.

After intermission it was Mozart's Requiem. I am ashamed to say that I am not familiar with the Requiem, other than some of the famous ("Dies Irae") passages. It was fun learning a piece of music like that. The orchestra was fantastic, as were the soloists and the CSO chorus.

The chorus was seated behind the orchestra on tiered platforms, with the highest platform about 6 feet above the floor of the orchestra. After the 2nd curtain call, the chorus sat down, and one of the men, in the back row, had his seat move backward...and he and chair fell to the floor behind the tiers. I could see Muti offstage wondering why the audience suddendly stopped clapping. Seems like no harm occurred, and soloists and conductor finally took their final curtain call.

As I exited from my seat, dreading the experience of finding a cab to take me to Union Station, wishing I had worn my hat, I saw an older gentleman wearing a hat almost exactly like the one I have. He was also wearing a green jacket with flight emblems on it. I thought that odd, and I saw that he had a nametag on the jacket as well.

It was Dr. B, the flying orthopedic guy who took me to the Lyric a few years ago (Verdi Macbeth - front row, just off center)! I collared him and reintroduced myself (you know how it is seeing people out of context), once he place me, we had a great conversation, and he drove me home in his VW Beetle. He offered to take me back to the opera with my daughter, and to fly me to Cincinatti for the opera.

Just a great time. Wonderful concert, and a great surprise at the end.
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Mikhailoh
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Cincinnati for the opera? Hmmm?
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George K
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He says it's great.
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George K
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"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... "
- Mik, 6/14/08


Nothing is as effective as homeopathy.

I'd rather listen to an hour of Abba than an hour of The Beatles.
- Klaus, 4/29/18
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Copper
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I bet he wouldn't do that again.
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brenda
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Nerves of steel. :)
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kluurs
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I've not met him - but I've certainly heard of him and a few of his exploits. Quite a guy - and a huge supporter of the arts in Chicago.
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George K
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kluurs
Feb 20 2015, 01:21 PM
I've not met him - but I've certainly heard of him and a few of his exploits. Quite a guy - and a huge supporter of the arts in Chicago.
He donated so much money to the CSO, that in 1979 or so, they let him conduct something (an overture by Rossini, iirc). He said that he just stood there, in his tuxedo, waving his arms around, and the orchestra took care of the rest.

Oh, the "temperamant" question was in response to him: my price for a ride home, rather than the train, was to explain why there's a difference between G# and Ab. I sort of got into the history of temperaments, and he asked for a book.

The man is always, ALWAYS, reading.
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"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... "
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