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I jump in epileptic fits, I scream into the night, I overcome my nostalgia for the Dixieland parties that are my only comparison to an event such as this. Ferrenc Illenyi, violin, and his gypsy orchestra (guitar/mandolin, electric bass, accordion/guitar).
They make Gidon Kremer's Kremerata Baltica sound like amateurs with no passion. They've got the same heart and street calls but are better than Limpopo and gypsies to boot.
They started off with Vivaldi Spring and they made the Kremer version sound boring. It was a joke, cause they played barely anything else classical, but when they did... Scott accompanied maybe six things, Scott Holshouser the incredible, and Ferrenc (rhymes with Clarence) did a duet with Sergei, the assistant concertmaster of the HSO, the good one, from Russia, and it was HILARIOUS; they kept stealing the mic from each other and doing crazy fiddle stuff that would beat Johnny who beat the devil from Devil Went Down to Georgia.
I don't understand why it wasn't publicized more. The huge amount of people there were primarily Hungarian, and all knew each other, but Tim Pitts (principal bass, HSO) was there and returned my wave so I didn't feel completely alien. Not tha I would have anyway, after the music started. It was Jaul, only with a violin and not singing. Though the mandolinist was incredible, too. Their finale was a medley of a Russian folk song, Sweet Georgia Brown, and something about an orange that's a jazz standard. We made them stay after the house lights went up for an encore.
I sincerely hope it was recorded, because that concert did not deserve to die of the mortality of music over a space of time.
They make Gidon Kremer's Kremerata Baltica sound like amateurs with no passion. They've got the same heart and street calls but are better than Limpopo and gypsies to boot.
They started off with Vivaldi Spring and they made the Kremer version sound boring. It was a joke, cause they played barely anything else classical, but when they did... Scott accompanied maybe six things, Scott Holshouser the incredible, and Ferrenc (rhymes with Clarence) did a duet with Sergei, the assistant concertmaster of the HSO, the good one, from Russia, and it was HILARIOUS; they kept stealing the mic from each other and doing crazy fiddle stuff that would beat Johnny who beat the devil from Devil Went Down to Georgia.
I don't understand why it wasn't publicized more. The huge amount of people there were primarily Hungarian, and all knew each other, but Tim Pitts (principal bass, HSO) was there and returned my wave so I didn't feel completely alien. Not tha I would have anyway, after the music started. It was Jaul, only with a violin and not singing. Though the mandolinist was incredible, too. Their finale was a medley of a Russian folk song, Sweet Georgia Brown, and something about an orange that's a jazz standard. We made them stay after the house lights went up for an encore.
I sincerely hope it was recorded, because that concert did not deserve to die of the mortality of music over a space of time.