January 7, 2005 at 1:08 AM

Joshua Bell Concert:

It was great, and amazing, and beautiful, and WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!

The first half was ok, but I wasn't really paying attention. (Oh and the conductor was really odd... as a violinist, I don't know how I would have followed his conducting, but he didn't use a score, which was nice. Then there was intermission, which seemed to last forever.......
After that Josh played, and it was one of the most amazing, beautiful things I have ever seen or heard. At first, when the orchestra was playing the intro, Josh looked kind of nervous. Through out the piece, when ever Josh wasn't playing, he was watching the Orchestra play, which was really neat. At the end of the concert, Josh did his first standard bow, then returned 4 times for encore bows. On the fourth time, Josh played Anna's theme and Pope's concert from the Red Violin. That was by far the best piece in the concert!!!!!! Then there were two more encore bows, the first time was still a controlled professional bow, and the second time, he came running out (with out his violin) just grinning. It was great

After the concert, we squished our way (yes it really was packed, ther was barely room to move) into the autograph line. It was nice and lucky that we were near the front of the line (but I would have waited). Once we made it to the front of the line, he shook our hands, signed our stuff, and let my mom take a picture of the three of us (me, Josh, and my friend)
Then it was over, and we went back to the place we stayed, and talked about the evening until early in the morning. Oh and also, he signed one of my CDs wrong, appearently, it is still '04...

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January 7, 2005 at 1:08 AM

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