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Bryan did indeed come get me last night, though it ( hardly turned out as I expected. )
I suppose the dreams must have resulted from the stress of the evening preceding them, but Stephan and I both had ( rather strange ones. )
Mama dropped me off at Stephan's from a taxing Adams/Beethoven piano rehearsal (with the Fort Bend Boys' Chorus, who are good but still need work) right as all three boys were leaving to go to the grocery store, but I didn't really mind going with them and baking comfortably in the car while they were in the store. Bryan had a headache, so I poked on his hand as we made the return trip. I wonder if I'm still any good at that? I haven't had much practice since high school, since my friends are hand wimps. Anyway, we got back in time for me to help them unbag their groceries and go to Chapelwood, where Tom had an Eight Seasons concert.
It was Mercury Baroque, so it was a decent performance orchestrally, and the Vivaldi is much less irritating than most Baroque concerti, but the conductor's brother had rearranged all the Piazzolla for solo bandoneon rather than violin, and done a rather bad job if I may opine so. Half the fun of the Piazzolla is the soaring, jumping, bouncing, or digging violin lines, and he didn't do them on bandoneon, replacing most of them with short, sharp dissonant chords (which, while fun, don't fill the empty spots and lead to a boring interlude). Not only that, he actually changed the meter of the beginning of Autumn, which was of course a tango, to 3/4 of all random signatures! It ruined the feel, and then he either left out or completely deemphasized the Vivaldi quotes, distorted and otherwise, that make the combination of the Eight Seasons so much fun. I was disappointed.
Still, it was Piazzolla, and though they worked quite hard at ruining it, Piazzolla's almost impossible to ruin. It was fun despite my issues with it, and Tom is as always the darling of my musical life (he introduced the ensemble and played harpsichord in the Vivaldi).
At any rate, I had a severe craving for the Kremerata Baltica recording, but on the way home I heard the second half of a Bobs album for the first time and can't get one particular song out of my head; it's an a capella rock ballad called My Shoes, and it's hilariously awesome.
It was Mercury Baroque, so it was a decent performance orchestrally, and the Vivaldi is much less irritating than most Baroque concerti, but the conductor's brother had rearranged all the Piazzolla for solo bandoneon rather than violin, and done a rather bad job if I may opine so. Half the fun of the Piazzolla is the soaring, jumping, bouncing, or digging violin lines, and he didn't do them on bandoneon, replacing most of them with short, sharp dissonant chords (which, while fun, don't fill the empty spots and lead to a boring interlude). Not only that, he actually changed the meter of the beginning of Autumn, which was of course a tango, to 3/4 of all random signatures! It ruined the feel, and then he either left out or completely deemphasized the Vivaldi quotes, distorted and otherwise, that make the combination of the Eight Seasons so much fun. I was disappointed.
Still, it was Piazzolla, and though they worked quite hard at ruining it, Piazzolla's almost impossible to ruin. It was fun despite my issues with it, and Tom is as always the darling of my musical life (he introduced the ensemble and played harpsichord in the Vivaldi).
At any rate, I had a severe craving for the Kremerata Baltica recording, but on the way home I heard the second half of a Bobs album for the first time and can't get one particular song out of my head; it's an a capella rock ballad called My Shoes, and it's hilariously awesome.
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