A time for everything

By turnx3

Evening sky

Thursday
Evening sky from the bottom of our yard.

This morning was my "For the love of music" class down at University of Cincinnati. I really enjoy this class. There are two leaders - Richard Waller is former principal clarinettist with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, so he has his own valuable perspective. The other leader is Charles Parsons, who is a music critic, and a fount of knowledge on all things classical, especially opera. This morning we were listening to some of the music that the Symphony is playing this weekend, a Hindemith piece, Symphonic Metamorphosis of Themes by Carl Maria von Weber,
Prokofiev violin concerto and Stravinsky Petroushka. He usually brings several different recordings of the same piece - and its fascinating listening to the different interpretations and speed that different conductors use. He asked the class what we thought of when we thought of Hindemith - people were generally pretty negative -"dissonant", "modern" some people said. But having listened to the piece, we were all pleasantly surprised and impressed by the piece. It's so great having this preview - you enjoy the music at the concert so much more.

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