UnRavelling

Last night I caught the UNSW Orchestra's performance of Grieg's Morgenstimmung, conducted by Colin Piper, and Ravel's Piano Concerto, conducted by Steven Hillinger.

Been a while since I'd had any contact with live classical music performance, and it made me realise how much I'd missed it.

It was an "ok" performance, I thought - much better than the concert band's right before, thank goodness - but rather shy of the standard we used to play at. The horns used to be *so* much better (that mortifying solo!), the woodwinds more in tune, upper strings more together. Then again, the flute and cor anglais solos were really quite well done in the Ravel - though I'm being more suayed by their tone, rather than technique.

Times like these, I wish Darren (and Aaron!) was around so he could give their blow-by-blow accounts (literally, for the winds) on each phrase and dynamic. There's so much on music analysis I could learn from them, and they always makes it so interesting to listen. Miss them, and Garçon.

But I miss playing trumpet more. :(

Ps. Yikes. My posts are getting more and more degenerate. Soon I will have to just lay off completely, for a good while. So I can ramble to myself, like this, in private. Lol.