tonight's neilsonisms were good ones.
the last 2 notes of stravinsky's "firebird suite"... one is held for a long time, then a brief pause, then the note reiterated. alan was trying to ensure that everyone knew that the pause was going to be very brief:
"it's only a quick pause. if everyone goes out for lunch it just won't work."then while rehearsing prokofiev's "peter and the wolf", the strings were having a difficult time. the first violins were supposed to play on the downbeat, followed by the second violins playing on the upbeat. it should end up sounding like a very regular rhythm, but it wasn't.
"it sounds like morse code, and i didn't get the message."the concert is sunday, march 14, by the way. at 5:30pm. the durham symphony will be performing:
* brahms - academic festival overture
* stravinsky - firebird suite
* borodin - prince igor overture
* prokofiev - peter and the wolf
* schumann - 1st movement, piano concerto
* ravel - 1st movement, piano concerto
(those last 2 works feature winners of the young artist competition; both girls look to be in their teens.)
tickets are available at the carolina theatre. that'll be me moving the chairs around on stage.
Posted by xta at March 2, 2004 10:46 PM | TrackBack