yakalskovich | Concert critique

The concert of the amateur orchestra

nazgul_nr_5 plays cello in wasn't nearly as bad as I was warned to expect! Actually, it was quite good. The violins were off to a weak start, but the moment the oboe soloist began to play, they suddenly found their feet and kept them - apart from one truly horrorful moment at the end of the slow movement of that Haydn piano concerto they did as the second piece; that was so bad I felt like running out of the hall for a moment. But then the movement was over, there was a short moment where everybody took a deep breath, and the violins miraculously recovered again. The piano soloist was a bit too young, shy and bland to bang properly where she should have, though.

The second part of the concert, some symphony by a totally unknown contemporary of Mozart (they have a new one each time; I half-jokingly suspect the conductor sekritly writes them himself and invents the composers), I spent staring pleasantly into space and plotting evil for

asar_suti, a Dark God Of Awesome Power I have consented to temporarily RP at the Crackbar. But fear not - I have not really succumbed! He'll be over before Christmas.

I was a bit disappointed, even, when the symphony suddenly broke into a blaring finale and fell silent, and there weren't any encores at all; I wasn't through with Asar-Suti yet.-

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oh poor you, it can be so disrupting when the nice background music stops.

Yes, it was quite disrupting. Couldn't they have gone for five more minutes? By then, I would have finished plotting and timing the intended torment and breakage of

lochiel...

Especially as that conductor writes the stuff himself (or have you ever heard of "Anton Eberl"?); couldn't he have added just a bit as not to end so suddenly before I reached the end of my ruminations?

Eberl, Anton (Franz Josef)
* 13. Juni 1765 in Wien
† 11. März 1807 ebd.

Einer der berühmtesten Klaviervirtuosen seiner Zeit, Schüler von Mozart.

Erm.

Yes, those are the dates the program gives me as well, but I sekritly suspected them to be invented. If you know him (or Google knows him), then my theory about the conductor writing the stuff himself is disproven...

And he can't really be blamed for coming to an end before I was finished.

duh - as i have not seen the programme, and the dates are the same, either me or google have just disproven you.

more interestingly, the name immediately rang a bell. seeing he comes from vienna, i might not have imagined him and really know him somehow *gasp*

now you have nobody left to blame though. and you call yourself a seer!

Perhaps they played it too fast?

perhaps you thought too slowly?

otherwise - yeeeeeeeeees, my dear. here, have some dried frog pills.

Igitt!

they worked?

You wish, eh?

just trying to help!

gah. this took 5-7 min to open now. and i feel really sick, as i got up really early and will have to do same tomorrow. depressed. might go and force-lie-down soonish.

Yes; there is some nice baroque music on Classic Radio; so I shall go to bed, armed with the remote control, and plot some more evil...

and those misguided government idiots/parent groups try to ban eminem and heavy metal, while - as we all long suspected (see goths and other non-black music lovers) that classical music is the devil's!!!!!!!

We have long know that, ever since the Vampire Lestat drove his motorcycle about listening to the "Goldberg Varaiations" (or was it "Das wohltemperierte Klavier"?) on his walkman...

only since then? ever since the silent era, classical music has been the constant follower of all creepyness, from a non-wohltemperiertes piano to some yowling eastern choirs. only in spoofs do baddies enter to the sounds of meat loaf - real horror comes on the strings of a violin!

/poetic

That does it. No chance for escape any more. Metaquoted.-

*rofl* and that was not even particularly eccentric for my standards.

It's not the excentricity, my dear, it's the quotability. ANd this last sentence was highly quotable.

once again i can only say, you missed some goodies in the olden days.

so, this is your week off then? i can expect you up and typing at 1 am?

No, this is my week on, where I am going to be at work every afternoon. Also, it is hopefully going to be the first of my two weeks as

asar_suti at the crackbar, where the world can expect me to be up and typing at all hours of the day or night.

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Anton Eberl

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Timing and predictions

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Dried frog pills

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Good night!

if only ...

Baroque

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Heh! Caught ya!

metaquoted, moi?

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