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Near-rapture
May. 21st, 2011 11:10 pmNo, not what you're thinking. We went up to Wisconsin to hear the Lake Geneva Symphony's final performance of the season tonight. It was even inside an evangelical church. Somehow we're all still here.
The performance was remarkable. They have a new music director since the last time we heard them, and he has brought a new focus to the group and a new edge to the sound of the orchestra.
The guest soloist was a bass named Matthew Treviño from Texas (Texas? How did that happen?) who sang arias in Italian from Don Carlo, The Barber of Seville, and The Marriage of Figaro as well as "Some Enchanted Evening" by Rodgers and Hammerstein. That's pretty diverse but he did a masterful job on all of it.
The orchestra's pièce de résistance was a brilliantly different interpretation of Dvorak's "New World Symphony" but they also gave a fine rendition of Verdi's overture to Nabucco.
It was all so good that I find myself contemplating season tickets for next year. The Chicago Symphony is unquestionably first rate, and easy to reach by commuter train, but they are priced way out of my budget range. This is an orchestra I can afford and that is still worth hearing.
The performance was remarkable. They have a new music director since the last time we heard them, and he has brought a new focus to the group and a new edge to the sound of the orchestra.
The guest soloist was a bass named Matthew Treviño from Texas (Texas? How did that happen?) who sang arias in Italian from Don Carlo, The Barber of Seville, and The Marriage of Figaro as well as "Some Enchanted Evening" by Rodgers and Hammerstein. That's pretty diverse but he did a masterful job on all of it.
The orchestra's pièce de résistance was a brilliantly different interpretation of Dvorak's "New World Symphony" but they also gave a fine rendition of Verdi's overture to Nabucco.
It was all so good that I find myself contemplating season tickets for next year. The Chicago Symphony is unquestionably first rate, and easy to reach by commuter train, but they are priced way out of my budget range. This is an orchestra I can afford and that is still worth hearing.
