jeudi 31 octobre 2013

Hilary Hahn and the Chamber Orchestra of Europe

Yesterday we went to see Hilary Hahn and the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, who were playing at la Cité de la Musique.  She was as amazing as you would expect her to be.  Silke was hyper with excitement.  Less expected, although perhaps we shouldn't have been surprised, was that the orchestra was equally amazing.  None of us had ever heard an orchestra of that calibre live, or even realized that a live orchestra performance could be like that.  Besides the Barber violin concerto with Hilary Hahn, they played Schönberg's La Nuit transfigurée and Shostakovich's 9th symphony.  I'm not a music critic, so unfortunately I can't describe it.

We were seated second balcony, behind the orchestra.  Cheap seats certainly, but it was quite a cool place to sit.  There is only a single row of seats in the second balcony, and it was like sitting at a glass bar, as there was a glass ledge one could lean on.  We could look right down on the orchestra and it was a fantastic view of everything that was happening in the orchestra.  And we could right at the conductor.  Just before the performance started, an usher came offered to move us to better seats - the concert was sold out, but some people hadn't shown up - but the kids decided to stay we were.  (Their young eyes are pretty sharp - they were able to read details on the sheet music on the stands that I just couldn't see.)

Backs of the heads of the Chamber Orchestra of Europe and Hilary Hahn.

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