BY ED BRUCE edbrucevegas@yahoo.com
2 MINUTES LATE...
THIS THE LAS VEGAS PHILHARMONIC CHRISTMAS SHOW AT THE SMITH CENTER !
ANYTIME YOU HAVE 32ish STRING PLAYERS YOU GOT A GIG !
LOVE THE LAS VEGAS PHIL......!
NOT SO MUCH THOUGH WITH VOCALS....77ish SINGERS ON BACK STAGE TO OVERRIDE THE STRINGS AND OF COURSE THEY DID !
WONDERFUL FIRST HALF CONCLUDING WITH FOUR TOO SHORT PIECES FROM TCHAIKOVSKY'S NUTCRACKER....THESE ONLY BRILLIANT ALONG WITH THEIR COMPOSER. THE NBT TO PERFROM THE "NUTCRACKER" AT THIS VENUE STARTING FRIDAY WITH PARTS OF THIS WONDERFUL ORCHESTRA.
22 MINUTE INTERMISSION....PROGRAM STARTED AT 732 FINISHED AT 918...COMES TO 84 MINUTES OF MUSIC INCLUDING CONDUCTOR DONATO CABRERA'S GREAT PRE PIECE NARRATION AND HISTORY....DONATO CONCLUDING HIS FIRST YEAR... ALWAYS SEEMS AT EASE AND IN CONTROL...WE LOVE HIM.
AFTER INTERMISSION PRETTY MUCH NOISE WITH THIS LOUD CHORUS SINGING IN TONGUES AND FOREIGN LANGUAGES KILLING MY QUEST FOR STRING MUSIC...I WAS NOT HAPPY WITH SONG SELECTION HERE.....OF COURSE MOST OF THE TIME I AM NOT AND THIS IS ME....I CAN HAVE THE CLASSICS NON STOP....! THE PROGRAM DID INCLUDE SOME NICE CHRISTMAS STUFF....NOTTO BE INCLUDED HERE WAS THE THREE SONG AUDIENCE SING ALONG....I DID NOT COME TO SING....I CAME TO LISTEN !
NICE CROWD....THE CHALLENGE THAT THIS AWFUL SMITH CENTER SOUND SYSTEM VENUE HAS WAS NOT AS TAXING FOR ORCHESTRA....I WAS UPSTAIRS AND CENTER AND TONIGHTS SOUND QUITE GOOD.....NEXT WEEK FOR THE NUTCRACKER THIS WON'T BE A CHALLENGE BECAUSE I KNOW THE TUNES....
LOVE THE PHILHARMONIC AND WE WILL ALL GET A GOOD TASTE ON 10 JANUARY WITH VIOLINIST BELLA HRISTOVA....BRUCH...RAVEL....DVORAK.....CAN'T WAIT....GET THEM TICKETS EARLY 702 749 2000
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