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Mozart Meets Mahler

November 19, 2005 at 1:10 PM

Oh, the concert last night was just wonderful!
They first performed one of the Mozart piano concertos; Dad hates Mozart (I can't be related to him) so when it was over (he slept through the second mov.) he said "Oh good, the antipasto's finished." The pianist was fabulous though; we were sitting so we could see his hands fly over the keyboard, and he played the cadenza just beautifully.
But then they played the Mahler's Sixth....the change in style was aking to Bambi meets Godzilla (the short where Bambi, frollicking through the fields is stepped on by Godzilla), or a butterfly being smacked by a flyswatter.
Mahler 6 is a l o n g piece! And those hammer strokes creeped the heck out of me. In my mind, it was a little too long (1 1/2 hrs), but the second movement was beautiful, absolutely beautiful.
There's just something about a concert...


From Sydney Menees
Posted on November 19, 2005 at 6:57 PM
Glad you had fun!
From Emily Grossman
Posted on November 19, 2005 at 8:09 PM
That Bambi short traumatized me as a kid.

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