Comments on: last night while I was knitting in the breeze at the symphony

By: Karen M

Karen M — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 13:27:37 +0000

Thank you, Pedinska!

By: Karen M

Karen M — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 13:27:12 +0000

I’ll bet that egg shape is great acoustically…

Best concert I ever attended was Segovia on stage alone with his guitar. I don’t think he even had a mike. It was transporting…

By: Pedinska

Pedinska — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 03:29:04 +0000

Karen, that was just lovely.

By: dirigo

dirigo — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 03:27:50 +0000

I have been to Blossom; and the Cleveland is a great orchestra.

By: cocktailhag

cocktailhag — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 02:50:59 +0000

I’m in the same boat, Karen.. As a former ballet producer, I thought orchestras needed something on stage to keep the audience intrigued. Disney Hall, as WT and I have talked about, is a good cure for this, to music snobs, shallowness. The space is like an egg, and is your seats are right you’re looking right down at the musicians, as they turn their pages and get ready for their moments.
And then there’s the accoustics. If you’re ever in LA, I’ll meet you there.

By: retzilian

retzilian — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 02:10:18 +0000

For all the abuse the city of Cleveland takes, we do have a world-class orchestra. The Cleveland Orchestra plays at Blossom Music Center in the summer, similar to the concert venue you described in your poem. If you ever get a chance to hear them (I’m sure they stop in Philadelphia on tour), you must!

By: Karen M

Karen M — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 00:40:28 +0000

I must confess, Retzilian, that I don’t know much about classical music. However, I do love live music… recordings just don’t cut it for me, most of the time.

If you like, you can see the program here.

Apparently, that symphony is Rachmaninoff’s most romantic… so I wasn’t making that up!

By: retzilian

retzilian — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 00:27:25 +0000

Interesting combination, Verdi and Rach. I love Russian composers; they are pure-t crazy and schizophrenic. Rach has so much French music influence, but he puts on that vodka-drinking, cold-defying stuff in his piano concertos!

By: bystander

bystander — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 23:08:29 +0000

Yeah, you taught me well before… I thought I had them in there correctly since the preview pane displayed correctly…

As it turns out, not so much. :-/

By: Karen M

Karen M — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 22:42:33 +0000

Thank you, bystander! I managed a rough first draft last night, and then over the course of today, I polished it up a bit.

About that html… if you use [br], but with LT and GT symbols, you can put in line breaks that do not include an extra line. It’s the only way to work with verse. Otherwise, wordwrap sabotages you completely.