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The L.A. Philharmonic is going to be broadcasting itself on over 450 movie screens across the U.S. and Canada on March 13th.
This is the second time the L.A. Phil has presented itself in this format.
The concert will be live from Disney Hall at 2pm Pacific and several San Diego theaters are screening the performance.
This will be an all Tchaikovsky concert with the theme being Shakespeare.
Tchaikovsky composed three orchestral pieces based on Shakespeare: Hamlet, The Tempest, and by far the best known of the three, Romeo and Juliet.
Between each piece, actors Orlando Bloom will portray Romeo, Malcolm McDowell will be Prospero, and Matthew Rhys will be Hamlet.
Why go see this?
You don’t have to brave L.A. traffic and pay $4 a gallon to see the young, firebrand, conductor Gustavo Dudamel.
It’s $20 and you can sit in the front row.
If you’re seated next a “loud breather”, you can move. What’s a loud breather? If you’ve sat next to one, you know.
It’s a relaxed atmosphere without the pretensions of the concert hall.
This is a big one for me. At times I get tired of the airs that patrons try to assume at the concert hall. Sometimes the attitude seems to be, “this isn’t fun, it’s art.”
Or, someone will say something so mundane I’ll remember it for the rest of my life. For instance, I was at a concert where the final piece was Tchaikovsky’s Sixth Symphony. At the intermission I overheard a patron saying, “this next one is really good.”
Truly. I wanted so to approach this middle-aged oracle of truth and ask what he meant by “really good.” Did he mean the Sixth Symphony is Tchaikovsky’s farewell composition before he commited suicide? Does really good mean that in the final movement, Tchaikovsky pours out all his life’s passion and allows us to see the beauty of the Slavic Soul? Indeed, really good.
Of course, I said nothing. I didn’t want to be pretentious.
I’ll be there on the 13th with some popcorn and a Diet Coke.
The L.A. Philharmonic is going to be broadcasting itself on over 450 movie screens across the U.S. and Canada on March 13th.
This is the second time the L.A. Phil has presented itself in this format.
The concert will be live from Disney Hall at 2pm Pacific and several San Diego theaters are screening the performance.
This will be an all Tchaikovsky concert with the theme being Shakespeare.
Tchaikovsky composed three orchestral pieces based on Shakespeare: Hamlet, The Tempest, and by far the best known of the three, Romeo and Juliet.
Between each piece, actors Orlando Bloom will portray Romeo, Malcolm McDowell will be Prospero, and Matthew Rhys will be Hamlet.
Why go see this?
You don’t have to brave L.A. traffic and pay $4 a gallon to see the young, firebrand, conductor Gustavo Dudamel.
It’s $20 and you can sit in the front row.
If you’re seated next a “loud breather”, you can move. What’s a loud breather? If you’ve sat next to one, you know.
It’s a relaxed atmosphere without the pretensions of the concert hall.
This is a big one for me. At times I get tired of the airs that patrons try to assume at the concert hall. Sometimes the attitude seems to be, “this isn’t fun, it’s art.”
Or, someone will say something so mundane I’ll remember it for the rest of my life. For instance, I was at a concert where the final piece was Tchaikovsky’s Sixth Symphony. At the intermission I overheard a patron saying, “this next one is really good.”
Truly. I wanted so to approach this middle-aged oracle of truth and ask what he meant by “really good.” Did he mean the Sixth Symphony is Tchaikovsky’s farewell composition before he commited suicide? Does really good mean that in the final movement, Tchaikovsky pours out all his life’s passion and allows us to see the beauty of the Slavic Soul? Indeed, really good.
Of course, I said nothing. I didn’t want to be pretentious.
I’ll be there on the 13th with some popcorn and a Diet Coke.