Carmina Burana
Bread for dinner: €1.50
Program: €3.70
Carmina Burana: Breathtaking.
Well.....I slept for about 12 hours, finally waking up around 1:30. I tooled around and pretended to do work until Mike met me at my place at 6:00 for dinner. I made pasta and my spaghetti sauce with Debraziner (delicious spicy sausage) except that somehow while we were at Egypt Man buying bread the sauce burned something terrible....I don't know how frankly, since I had it on the lowest heat, like I always do....maybe because I wasn't there to stir it.....anyway, after I picked out the huge flakes of burned stuff, it only tasted slightly charred.....whatever. Jess met us at a little before 7 and we went off to Carmina Burana.
Let's talk about Carmina Burana: it's the best thing I've seen here so far, hands down. I mean, that's a piece that you can really only experience live. I mean, we were sitting in the organ balcony behind and above the stage, so we couldn't see the orchestra or even much of the audience in the Parkett, but we could hear....boy could we hear! We were sitting under half of the percussion section, so every time that bass drum went off our feet were trembling like nothing else......oh my god I can't tell you how amazing it was!!!!!! Well, to start off, the first half of the concert was this other piece by Orff which I'd never heard of before....it was called "Catullus Carmina," or The Poems of Catullus.....it's for huge Carmina-Burana-esque double choir, soloists, FOUR pianos and full percission.....the latter two of which only play in the introduction and postlude: the bulk of the piece is acapella (although, as Jess pointed out, as was hard to tell sometimes that there weren't instruments, there was so much sound) I couldn't tell you what it was 'about', but it did have a narrative.....it was an amazing, amazing piece, though....I'll have to find a recording or a score of it. After an intermission they did Carmina Burana in it's glorious entirety.....there aren't any words, really......it was a perfect (and I mean PERFECT) performance of a tremendous piece. I honestly can't think of ANYTHING to complain about or that I wish had been better, and I'm usually pretty good at that. The conductor was great, the orchestra did well, the soloists were fantastic, the choir was AMAZING......I could go on and on. So, after that I went home COMPLETELY emotionally drenched....I could barely move for hours.....oh it was soooooo good. I'm so glad that I went, and I'm so glad I bought seats for us! Standing room (which we COULD see from our seats) was p-a-c-k-ed.....it looked awful.
Program: €3.70
Carmina Burana: Breathtaking.
Well.....I slept for about 12 hours, finally waking up around 1:30. I tooled around and pretended to do work until Mike met me at my place at 6:00 for dinner. I made pasta and my spaghetti sauce with Debraziner (delicious spicy sausage) except that somehow while we were at Egypt Man buying bread the sauce burned something terrible....I don't know how frankly, since I had it on the lowest heat, like I always do....maybe because I wasn't there to stir it.....anyway, after I picked out the huge flakes of burned stuff, it only tasted slightly charred.....whatever. Jess met us at a little before 7 and we went off to Carmina Burana.
Let's talk about Carmina Burana: it's the best thing I've seen here so far, hands down. I mean, that's a piece that you can really only experience live. I mean, we were sitting in the organ balcony behind and above the stage, so we couldn't see the orchestra or even much of the audience in the Parkett, but we could hear....boy could we hear! We were sitting under half of the percussion section, so every time that bass drum went off our feet were trembling like nothing else......oh my god I can't tell you how amazing it was!!!!!! Well, to start off, the first half of the concert was this other piece by Orff which I'd never heard of before....it was called "Catullus Carmina," or The Poems of Catullus.....it's for huge Carmina-Burana-esque double choir, soloists, FOUR pianos and full percission.....the latter two of which only play in the introduction and postlude: the bulk of the piece is acapella (although, as Jess pointed out, as was hard to tell sometimes that there weren't instruments, there was so much sound) I couldn't tell you what it was 'about', but it did have a narrative.....it was an amazing, amazing piece, though....I'll have to find a recording or a score of it. After an intermission they did Carmina Burana in it's glorious entirety.....there aren't any words, really......it was a perfect (and I mean PERFECT) performance of a tremendous piece. I honestly can't think of ANYTHING to complain about or that I wish had been better, and I'm usually pretty good at that. The conductor was great, the orchestra did well, the soloists were fantastic, the choir was AMAZING......I could go on and on. So, after that I went home COMPLETELY emotionally drenched....I could barely move for hours.....oh it was soooooo good. I'm so glad that I went, and I'm so glad I bought seats for us! Standing room (which we COULD see from our seats) was p-a-c-k-ed.....it looked awful.
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