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In Reply to: RE: Coming Up - Yet Another Night at the Indy Symphony posted by Rockethead26 on June 02, 2012 at 07:01:24
I recently helped link my kid to some Joshua Bell videos, and found out he (Bell) is a Gingold student--check out Youtube. Great stuff.Last night ended our youth symphony concert season, with the concerto competition winners and last concert of the full CYMO (mostly seniors and juniors, big kids). Great youth orchestra performance of Berlioz' Roman Carnival, concerto excerpts (Ibert for oboe, Debussy for clarinet), Bernstein West Side Story, break, Howard Hanson's 2nd symphony and this potboiler that was just neat and loud and celebratory Malambo from the “Estancia Suite” by Ginastera (talk about testing your system). Even my wife loved that piece. At the Pomona College venue, she thought it made more impact than @ Walt Disney Hall earlier in the month. I missed the Disney Hall concert.
The concertmaster is this tiny 16 year old Malaysian Chinese kid (see link) who moves his body a lot like Joshua Bell or maybe William Precil of the Cleveland Orchestra. His parents are pretty modest, and they said he is "just imitating his older brother, who plays in the Malaysian Philharmonic."
Weather was great, 70-72 F at start, a nice brisk cool walk to adjoining building at Pomona College in Claremont CA, for their post concert reception (finger food galore).
My kid sat w her friends from school (high school symphony members) and they loved watching their classmates and esp seeing one of their violin section seniors play as principal 2nd in the CYMO (www.cymo.org).
Good education, good music, good friends, what more can one ask for?
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Sounds like a really enjoyable day and a great way to end the youth season. Looks like Miclen will be around for a while. It will be interesting to see where life takes him.
Thanks for your informative reviews and encouragement as you journey with us through the classics. Checked your gear, good stuff.Your wife is cool. I think my wife is "hot," but she is modest. We had the chance to meet Sarah Chang a couple of yrs ago (link). The kid asked her to autograph the actual Vivaldi Four Seasons CD w Orpheus Chamber Orch.
Here in the LA area, I can listen to KUSC all day long (online for that matter).
I heard part of Symphonycast Saturday with Dutoit conducting La Mer and then, on Sunday afternoon driving to our concert, LA Phil was playing concerts featuring Ralph Kirschbaum, the well known cellist.
Neeme Jarvi, conductor
Ralph Kirschbaum, cello
Program:
Dvorak: Carnival Overture
Dvorak: Cello Concerto
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5We had a lot to do on Sunday, as I was overseeing and facilitating guest presenters to our church. That was before the evening CYMO concert.
Tired, but you guys (Chris from L and you in particular) provided the entertainment at the end of my workday before going home!
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docw,
Glad I can occasionally provide a little entertainment. Lord knows I can't educate anyone on classical music.
keep on listening, then.
Chris from Lafayette is the best, and if you get a question, Thornhill (young guy) is very educated although he loves Michael Gielen for everything (almost).
Classical, you learned it when? I started age 6 or 7, hanging w my father's hobby. A true vignette he often told is when interviewing for Stanford med school, the German doctor prof who was interviewing him was playing a Beethoven sonata. He waited a few minutes, and after being ushered in, he started to converse about the sonata, and the prof said, "that's fine, you're accepted."
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