UNLV PERFORMING ARTS

BY ED BRUCE edbrucevegas@yahoo.com


3 IN FOUR NIGHTS.....


TONIGHT


UNLV SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA


AGAIN A UNLV TREASURE


SPECIAL STUFF TONIGHT...... CONDUCTOR AND  MUSICAL DIRECTOR TARAS KRYSA ALWAYS SEEMS TO SELECT PIECES TO MY TASTE....MUSIC FROM DEAD COMPOSERS....WELL SEASONED...


TONIGHT....LIADOV...THE ENCHANTED LAKE....SHORT OPENER....SWEET...SOFT ...WELL PLAYED..


AH


THE PIECE OF THE NIGHT....


SERGEI PROKOFIEV.....THREE MOVEMENTS....GUEST VIOLINIST OLEH KRYSA...THE CONDUCTORS FATHER....ONE OF THE WORLDS PREMIERE ARTISTS AND A RECORD TO PROVE IT.....THIS PIECE NEW TO ME AND SPECIAL TO BOTH ARTISTS...DEDICATING IT TO THE CONDUCTORS MOTHER AND THE VIOLINISTS WIFE....IT WAS LOVELY SO WELL PLAYED AND THE UNIVERSITY ORCHESTRA PLAYERS EQUAL TO THE TASK....THE SOUND IN UNLV'S HAM HALL THE BEST IN LAS VEGAS...EVERYTIME I HEAR AN ORCHESTRA AT THE SMITH CENTER I THINK...."THESE JACKOFFS SPENT 80 MILLION DOLLARS FOR THEIR SOUND AND  ITS NO WHERE NEAR WHAT HAM HALL HAS"....HUH....?
KRYSA PLAYED A J B GUADAGNINI VIOLIN FROM 1758...HIS LAST TRIP HERE HE HAD A "STRAD" WHATEVER HE PLAYS AND WHEREVER HE PLAYS...CALL ME...I AM THERE.


ANYWAY INTERMISSSION


THE FIRST HALF IMPOSSIBLE TO TOP BUT THEY GAVE IT A HELL OF A TRY WITH RIMSKY-KORSAKOV'S.....SCHEHERAZADE....THE SECOND MOVEMENT OVER THE TOP...FAMILIAR TO THE WORLD .................................63.....MINUS ONE UNLV STUDENTS GAVE IT THEIR BEST....HARD TO BELIEVE ONE TRUMPET PLAYER IN THE BACK ROW..FIFTH FROM THE RIGHT COULD BE SO DISINTERESTED IN THE EFFORTS OF HIS TEAMMATES...HE WAS DISTRACTING...PICKING HIS NOSE...PICKING IS EYELASHES ..SWASHING HIS HEAD...BOWING...TRYING TO TALK....I SOLVED THIS PROBLEM BY CLOSING MY EYES AND SOAKING IN THE SOUND....HERE IS A DEAL WHERE YOU COULD HAVE ADDITION BY DELETION.
I CAN ONLY REPORT WHAT I SAW.....THANKS TO THE OTHER 62 PLAYERS AND THE CONDUCTOR.


99 A + FOR THIS DEAL....THE PROGRAM WAS THE BEST THING IN LAS VEGS THIS NIGHT.


MORE TO COME..


THURSDAY AT DOC RANDALL HALL...MORE STRINGS...THREE TIME FOUR....702 895 2787


SAME NUMBER FOR TICKETS TO HAL HOLBROOK DOING MARK TWAIN AT HAM HALL SATURDAY NIGHT...


SALUTE TO UNLV COLLEGE OF FINE ARTS ...DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC...ETC


THANK YOU