{"id":4700,"date":"2010-05-24T00:14:09","date_gmt":"2010-05-24T07:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/?p=4700"},"modified":"2010-05-24T00:14:09","modified_gmt":"2010-05-24T07:14:09","slug":"second-night-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2010\/05\/24\/second-night-thoughts\/","title":{"rendered":"second night thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, I feel like I redeemed myself after my fuzziness on Saturday night, and in general, many things went better for the entire orchestra on Sunday evening than the Saturday opening night’s concert.\u00a0 As much as I love the Mahler First Symphony, the work that is capturing my heart this week is the Britten Violin Concerto<\/em>.\u00a0 Elina V\u00e4h\u00e4l\u00e4 played the holy bejesus out of it again Sunday night, and the orchestra seemed steadier in its support of her, and I again found myself being profoundly moved by the sentiment of the piece.\u00a0 Britten never goes for overt sentimentality (unlike, say, Elgar or Walton) – he either grabs you by the throat or goes for very effective understatement – but in the concerto he seems to tread a line that succeeds in capturing the sorrow and pointlessness of war very effectively.\u00a0 The closing chorale tonight was especially devastating to me tonight, with the extreme reaches of the violin’s lowest string being used to sound like a cry of unutterable pain and anguish.<\/p>\n

We had some friends from Seattle at the concert last night, and they are tough people to please (very respected musicians, both) and they were unanimous in their praise of the orchestra, soloist, and performances.\u00a0 They especially enjoyed the chamber music character of the third movement of the Mahler, and the performance by Elina, and said that the orchestra really had no weaknesses.\u00a0 What a nice way to cap off the season!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well, I feel like I redeemed myself after my fuzziness on Saturday night, and in general, many things went better for the entire orchestra on Sunday evening than the Saturday opening night’s concert.\u00a0 As much as I love the Mahler First Symphony, the work that is capturing my heart this week is the Britten Violin […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":303,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[148,135,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appreciations","category-soloists-recitals","category-the-orchestra-world"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8kC-1dO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3264,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2009\/10\/15\/heat-up-cool-down\/","url_meta":{"origin":4700,"position":0},"title":"heat up, cool down","author":"Charles Noble","date":"October 15, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"This is the time of year where a curious shift happens: the classical music season heats up, while the weather outside cools down. \u00a0This post in just going to be a hodge-podge of random thoughts, truly full of daily observations, rather than what is usually posted here (not sure what\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "recordings"","block_context":{"text":"recordings","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/category\/music\/recordings-music\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/ir?t=dailyobservat-20&l=ur2&o=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":7052,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2011\/11\/05\/another-great-concert\/","url_meta":{"origin":4700,"position":1},"title":"another great concert","author":"Charles Noble","date":"November 5, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Saturday and Monday nights will see another great set of concerts in this already stellar season. 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