Old Folks Music Day #1 SARASOTA ORCHESTRA





 I am a financial supporter of the Sarasota Orchestra.  It's a modest enough amount each month, but enough qualify for special events.

One such was an open rehearsal which I attended today. The orchestra was rehearsing the weekend programme:-



"South Korean conductor Shiyeon Sung makes her Sarasota Orchestra debut, leading a program featuring Lili Boulanger’s D’un matin de printemps, Dvořák’s Symphony No. 6, and Ravel’s iconic Boléro. (from the S.O. blurb)"


This morning's rehearsal was for  Ravel's  Boléro,  and Boulanger's  D’un matin de printemps. (Sadly no Dvořák!)

Boléro, take it or leave it goes on and on.  I heard it twice.

I noted how much of the work of the strings is by plucking not bowing. The were the Work Horses!

And how instruments such as the Bassoon and the Tuba have starring roles.

Shiyeon Sung has a soft voice so it was not always easy to hear her instructions. But she was getting what she wanted!

I heard Boléro as not only sensual; but as orgasmic!


TOMORROW Old Folks Music Day #2 -  grooving with Jews,


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