by ED BRUCE edbrucevegas@yahoo.com
WHAT BETTER WAY TO CLOSE YOUR DAY THAN A VIOLIN CONCERTO ! ! NOT ENOUGH OF THOSE AROUND.
PROBABLY VERY FEW IN LAS VEGAS WENT TO INTERNATIONAL CURLING....A MOB INTERACTIVE LECTURE WITH TOMMY JAMES .....AND....THE LAS VEGAS PHIHARMONIC ON ONE SATURDAY.....I DID ! !
OBVIOUSLY THE BEST FOR LAST.
SATURDAY AT THE SMITH CENTER A NEVADA THEMED CLASSICAL ORCHESTRA PROGRAM WITH LOTS OF SPECIAL TOUCHES.
I REMAIN THE STATES PROUDEST MEMBER....MEDIA OR OTHERWISE OF THIS ORCHESTRA.
ALWAYS NICE TO FIRE UP 40 STRINGS ON A SATURDAY NIGHT !
THE LV PHIL AUDITIONING CONDUCTORS OVER THE CURRENT DECADE....INVITED DONATO CABRERA FOR THIS ONE....CABRERA HOLDS A DEGREE FROM UNLV AND RETURNED HOMEISH FOR THIS GIG.
LV PHIL HAS HAD THEIR CONDUCTORS OPEN WITH A PRE SHOW TALK....TRULY ONE OF THE GREAT IDEAS OF ALL TIME....CABRERA NOT SHORT ON HIS MUSICIAL HISTORY...HIS CHARM...HIS EASY WITH THE MICROPHONE STYLE...HE EVEN TOOK QUESTIONS....IT WAS TOO BRIEF.
BRITTEN....FOUR SEA INTERLUDES.....PRETTY BUSY ONLY 15 MINUTES WHICH THE WONDERFUL PROGRAM DETAILED
DID I MENTION... THIS FIRST CLASS PROGRAM OPENED RIGHT ON TIME..IF ITS LATE IT IS NOT FIRST CLASS AND LOSES ONE POINT ON MY SCORECARD FOR EVERY MINUTE LATE...NOT HERE.
MENDELSSOHN....VIOLIN CONCERTO......MY EARLY HIGHLITE OF THE 2014 SEASON.....CABRERA BROUGHT IN HIS 16 YEAR CONCERTMASTER FROM HIS SAN FRANCISCO YOUTH ORCHESTRA...ALINA MING KOBIALKA TO DO THE HONORS.....THE PAIR WORKED TOGETHER IN SAN FRANCISCO FOR 3 YEARS AND THIS WAS THE FIRST TIME KOBIALKA PLAYED THE CONCERTO....IT WAS ONLY PERFECT.....WE WERE FRONT ROW TO ENJOY THE PASSION AND DELICACY WITH WHICH SHE DELIVERED THIS 25 MINUTE MASTERPIECE....MENDELSSHON ONLY WROTE ONE VIOLIN CONCERTO....THIS WAS IT...HE ONLY LIVED TO 38 BUT THE WORLD IS MUCH BETTER OFF FOR ALL OF IT !
AFTER HER STANDING OVATION KOBIALKA DID AN ENCORE....SHE DID NOT ANNOUNCE IT BUT IT WAS SWEET WITH SOME SHARP TONES AND A LITTLE PIZZICATO MIXED IN....RESEARCH TOLD US IT WAS ORIENTAL WAR PASSAGES UNTITLED...IT WAS GREAT......REALLY AFTER THIS THERE WAS NO REASON TO STAY BUT WE DID ANYWAY.
INTERMISSION....GOOD TO TIME TO READ THIS WONDERFUL PROGRAM...I WONDER HOW STANDARD THE MUSICAL HISTORY BIOS OF THE MUSIC ARE....? ? ? THEY ARE ALWAYS INFORMATIVE....YOU LOSE IF YOU DON'T READ THEM AND YOU REALLY LOSE IF YOU MISS THE PRE CONCERT LECTURES !
EQUUS....ERIC WHITACRE....A LIVING NEVADA COMPOSER ...HE IS 43 BORN IN RENO AND ATTENDED UNLV.....THIS 9 MINUTE SECOND HALF KICKOFF WAS BUSY....TOO BUSY ...LOUD AND KILLED SOME OF THE STRINGS....EVERYTHING TO TASTE.
LA MER.....DEBUSSY.....WATER THEMED MUSIC....HELPED IMMENSELY BY THE PRE CONCERT INFO...YOU COULD SEE THE WAVES AND TIDES IN THIS FAMOUS PIECE....I LIKED IT.
WOW.....WHAT ELSE TO SAY....THOSE WHO MISS THE SYMPHONY LEAD UNFULFILLED LIVES....SO MANY SYMPHONYS YET TO BE HEARD SO LITTLE TIME....NEXT FOR THE LV PHIL....FEBRUARY 15 ...POPS lll,
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