BY ED BRUCE edbrucevegas@yahoo.com
When conductor Taras Krysa came to town he did not need to solict opinions and ideas because he already knew how to do everything right....to include starting his concerts on time....nothing has changed....he still starts right on time and I love him !
The UNLV Symphony trains musicians, introduces everyone to a higher quality of music making and enrichs the cultrual life of us all....that's what it says in their program and its all true.
Tuesday night at the greatest symphony hall in the west (Ham Hall) another opportunity for symphonys to be heard ! This from Krysa and 65 student players, can't get enough strings and we had a nice lineup this evening....when I was in college I was searching for guidence (like now) these young people have black and white uniforms and play symphonys...WOW !
Two symphonys....Prelude and Isolde's Transfiguration (Liebestod) from tristan und Isolde....Christine Seitz (soprano) ....Richard Wagner 1813-1883 (you remember Wagner...Hitlers guideline to the Jews) . Anyway, 18 minutes here (they print the time in the program) of something nice for awhile .....then the Soparano.....after 9 minutes of lovely stuff....the soprano rises and a baby cries (incredible how the timing of this works)....anyway she sings in foreign tongunes and the combination of voice and orchestra never works for me and did not here...it is an intrusion of both arts in addition to the fact that no one can understand the words (that was kind of the genius of the Beatles.....lyrics......) Anyway she was very professional with a nice voice..... I just can't do the theme ......it ended up in the noise category !
Intermission
Now Symphonie fantastique.... by Hector Berlioz 1803 - 1869. In the program it said...."A few days before the premiere, Berlioz's full-scale program was printed in the Revue musical, and, on the evening of the performance, December5, 1830, two thousand copies of a leaflet containing the same narrative were distributed in the concert hall, according to Felix Mendelssohn, who would remember that night for the rest of his life because he hated the music so much." Beautiful.....NOT ME.....I love it so much, for its variety, for its originiality, for its creativity, for the opportunity to hear something different and for the way it was played. I was able to close my eyes for the first 3 movements and just suck it int.... 55 minutes of heaven for me...thanks Taras.
Even tho I do not care for sopranos....they get 100 A+++
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