The They Stuck Gears on my Convoy Whinging Complaint Thread
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I had the opportunity to head out to University of BC a couple summers ago and watch the Vancouver Symphony perform Beethoven's Piano Concerto No.5-"Emperor". It was phenomenal. I was wondering how the Pianist also could be the Conductor, but it wasn't as big a deal as I thought. Just an absolute joy. Not a single discernible mistake throughout the entire performance.
I really need to take up the piano again.... playing was so relaxing.
seagulls do love mcdonalds parking lot
came home early, robitussim relief
The "Emperor" piano concerto was one of the first classical recordings I ever had. It was on a large set of 78 rpm lacquer records in a hard cover binder and we played it on a cheap portable 78rpm player. Fidelity wasn't great.
Much better now days. 
I have been to performances by major orchestras and heard bloops. Once at the Kennedy Center the National Orchestra was playing a symphony and at the end of one of the slow movements the music dies away until only one instrument (an oboe or clarinet) is left to fade away and complete the movement. She did great and the audience was following the music melody as it repeated getting slower and quieter then at the very last note as we were expecting the last shoe to drop into place into the silence between movements, she went flat. (Da..da...da...donk) It was like an icepick in your ear.
There was a discernable wave of gasps through the audience. That was probably one of the worst notes to flub. It was not going to go unnoticed! 
Two years ago I was at Chautauqua attending a symphony in the amphitheater. The program went fine up through the intermission. Then when they came back to play the featured piece that I had come to hear I heard mistake after mistake.
At one point the principle violinist carrying the melody got flustered and stopped playing while the rest of the orchestra continued with the harmony. Several bars later she finally caught up and jumped in again but the absence was shocking to anybody who knew the piece. In the same piece the horns were all boogered up. Something was terribly wrong, they were out of phase, or out of tune or both several times during the piece. Perhaps that's what had confused the violinist. Regardess, I gave up counting mistakes after I ran out of fingers on both hands, got up and walked out of the covered open-air amphitheater and wandered around the outside listening to the rest of the program shaking my head. I actually wrote a letter to the program director and complained that I had never heard a performance that bad outside of a high school gym. She wrote back and explained that during intermission one of the horn players had dropped his horn and damaged it beyond repair. They'd been running around the Chautauqua campus to try to find another identical horn. What they got was apparently not identical enough, and of course it wasn't his own horn so it responded differently and in the panic the show suffered. So things do go wrong even in the best of venues. But, the silver lining in this situation is that my complaint got me a free ticket to any other symphony performance during their season. 
Poor girl.
Dana
Reminds me of a concert I was at, a local city orchestra, and on the second to last note of the second movement of the piece, one of the Cello players banged their bow against the Cello by accident. The echo through the theatre was... a wee bit jarring... hahaha. I felt so bad for her!
I am home and about to eat cake. I am feeling better after my nice swim.
...yeah more winter heading our way tomorrow and Friday Very windy today, was supposed to die off by late afternoon but still gusting pretty hard some five hours later rattling the windows. Back into the 20s tomorrow and Friday with snow turning into the usual freezing rain Friday as it warms up by evening. Have most of the supplies I need, will be going out to do a quick market run in the morning tomorrow before it starts to get bad.
Crikey there are a lot of cameras in Manhattan. Have to almost go down to street level to separate them all.
...listening now.
Performed at the Wiener Musikverein.
Where in my story Leela performs the 5th Concerto in E flat 'Emperor" (before she is abducted following the concert).
...I get seniors rates which even on my meagre income are surprising affordable and decent seats too.
...wish I could still play but my right hand is almost crippled now.
...ugh need to get new headphones as the ones I have keep losing fidelity with the slightest bit of head movement (most likely shorting out like the last pair did). Almost like listening those old lacquer 78s at times.
Ever since I've become ancient I don't think I've ever encountered Senior Rates at a concert.
However, Chautauqua does have "Community" concerts where the normal price of $40 is reduced to $25.
At Chautauqua EVERYBODY is a senior. OMG, you look out over a full amphitheater and it looks like it's full of snow and everybody's got a cane. I exaggerate, not EVERYBODY is ancient. I do see some younger people but most are either music students or children of summer residents of the Chautauqua campus itself. The average non-ancient person in this area doesn't even know about Chautauqua except that it's that place on the lake where you have to pay to get into town, and they certainly have never been.
Despite this regional ignorance, Chautauqua does often fill the amphitheater. Getting four thousand ancient people to sit for three hours on hard wooden benches in the non-airconditioned heat & humidity or evening chill where they've had to park a half mile away up a steep hill and will have to walk back up that hill (possibly in the rain) at 11:00 at night with sore butts, is accomplishing something. But in defense of the amphitheater seating, the Chautauqua bookstore does sell official Chautauqua seat cushions! 
And the opera house, and various other theaters do have air-conditioning and proper seating. 
I'm anxiously awaiting a reason to go again this coming summer. The Amphitheater is being rebuilt again promising more and better seats and fewer support columns. See the timelapse and live-cam videos here: http://ciweb.org/amp (ps: scroll wheel doesn't work, you have to use the window's scrollbar.
) And check out the "Plaza-cam" http://ciweb.org/plaza-cam too, to get a feel for what a gem the town of Chautauqua is. The building on the left is the bookstore, gray building on the right is one of the many hotels, a restaurant, a quickie store, and an ice cream shop, and I believe you can see the arm of the crane that is building the amphitheater behind the building in the far back. During the summer season, cars are not permitted in much of the town. Bicycles, small buses and walking only. Very steep hills on some of the east/west roads.
Ooh, ooh! Just checked the (still incomplete) schedule for this summer's season and on Aug 22 is the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto and the Brahms 1st Symphony. I also noticed the Mahler 5th Symphony somewhere earlier in the summer.
(Pronunciation: Chautauqua [shah-TAH-kwah])
My work wifi is acting up. Sometimes it wants to work but others not.
Piano Concerto No. 5 in E (very) flat.
Ho hum...
Morning. Dawn's first light nudging on a blanket of inky dark in the eastern sky and provoking a slight sea breeze like night's ladt gasp before the city properly wakes :)
Big Brother?
Dana
Your friend looks a little bit like a sleepy snake.
That keeps making me yawn!
Dana
stayed home sick again. miseable cold - complaint
playin with the face bones, was goin for streisand
setip eva7 for carrara
I am watching a show about a caretaker of a school. He said his name was Smith, but prefers to be called Doctor. I am guessing Smith is an alias but I never caught the caretaker's real name.
..pretty good, maybe just a bit longer of a chin amd slightly thinner lips. Oh, and blue eyes.
she looks a lot like jennifer anniston, or vice versa rather
>.< ise out of robitussin
....ugh gusty winds haven't let up since yesterday morning. They were supposed to calm down by 16:00 local time yesterday, now are expected to persist into mid morning tomorrow (just when the snow and freezing rain is supposed to start). Had to run an errand yesterday and it was brutal, even with wearing extra layers. Almost couldn't breathe when there was a gust as I was walking back home (right into the wind).
37° with the "Real Feel" somewhere in the mid 20s due to winds between 30 and 40 mph.
Would like to get to the Market before any precipitation begins but don't fancy walking 15 - 20 min each way in these conditions (a good part of the trip there walking into the wind) yet not wanting to waste a day ticket for such a short trip (don't think I can make it on a 2 hr 30 min ticket there and back).
...The I Am Sick Of Winter Already Complaint Thread.
I feel like I am tired. I want to watch something but I am also tired at the same time. Yawn!
*hugs* you needz some beach :)
...yeah a rather "Plain Jane" shot of her I'll admit without a fancy doo or a lot of makeup.
Hope the weather isn't as bad there as it is here.
Ran out of ibuprofen for my right hand, but cant afford any until Caturday when my February cash comes in. Can't purchase drugs with my food allotment. Going to be a painful couple days and evenings until then.
...could use some beach (preferably with warm sun and water for my achy bones and joints) myself.
So not wanting to go out right now as I am already seeing snow and freezing rain appearing on the local radar map.on the west side of town. I can sort of make it until the weekend if I really have to, just means having to "improvise" something for one dinner, or head down to the local corner store which is only 4 blocks away. Not a very big selection there though.