Yesterday, a dear pal treated me to my first classical music concert - "Lorin Maazel & the SSO", a gala perfomance featuring a premier Asian orchestra, a world-celebrated Maestro and a beautiful, gifted young violinst from St Petersburg. The classical repertoire included Peter Ilyich Tchiakovsky's "Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture", "Violin Concerto in D, Op.35" and Modest Mussorgsky's "Pictures at an Exhibition".
If the last 3 lines which you've just read stumped you, perhaps it comforts you to know that it stumped me too. When my gal pal first dropped that "I'm going to treat you to a classical music concert", my jaws dropped 5 inches. Me?? Classical music?? SSO?? I've always thought I'm the Sun Yan Zi, cheena pop song kind. Symphonies, concertos, overtures... they sound like foreign tongue from another world. My first instinct was to run and hide, and if she managed to catch/find me, she'd have to drag me screaming and kicking into the concert hall. Aiyoh, what if I fall asleep in there and start to drool and snore!?!
Thankfully, it all ended well. The concert wasn't so bad afterall, although there were some incomprehensible moments where the audience/orchestra/conductor did funny stuff e.g. conductor walked on and off and on and off and on the stage as audience kept clapping... I liked the dramatic parts when the whole orchestra strutted their stuff mightily and in harmony, very "zhuang(4) guan(1)", like a king beast full of life, so in control.
So am I a classical music convert now? Hmmmm, guess I'm someone who love to have many different senses engaged at the same time. I like performances that tackle visuals + audios simultaneously, that's why I love musicals and performances like STOMP. I think... Sun Yan Zi may still make it in the near future. =)
Thanks my dear, for sharing your love with moi. One day, when I do become a true convert, it'd be my turn to treat!
2 comments:
heyo sweet dear
i'm glad I didn't have to drag you to the concert ... hehe ... ptherwise, someone will have accused me correctly!
life does gets a little more exciting when your normal senses 'fail' you and the incomprehensible and unknown hits you in ways that you can't quite explain, doesn't it? And your most important sense was engaged ... that of the imagination : ) So lose control sometimes ... you never know...
love, dodo
ach! so lucky... i miss going for concerts... not that there aren't any here, but i'm so used to the sistic convenience that i dunno/can't be bothered to find out how to seek out the concerts and buy tickets here... was sad and still am, that i wasn't able to catch a concert during my trip home in feb. enjoy my dear!
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