{"id":245,"date":"2004-12-05T23:16:00","date_gmt":"2004-12-06T06:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/12\/05\/musical_weekend.html"},"modified":"2008-12-23T09:10:32","modified_gmt":"2008-12-23T16:10:32","slug":"musical_weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/12\/05\/musical_weekend.html","title":{"rendered":"Musical Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"

We’re getting to know the finger food at Symphony Hall; the chicken skewers are the best, and the salmon pat? was also very good Friday night when Aimee and I attended another “Repartee<\/a>” night with the BSO, courtesy of Mr. Brown. Our musical introduction was provided this time by orchestra bass trombonist Douglas Yeo<\/a>, certainly the first musician who has spoken at a Repartee event we’ve attended who has his own website, plays the serpent, and sells his own floaty pen<\/a>. Wow. He gave a great introduction to the evening’s piece, Berlioz’s Rom?o et Juliette<\/I><\/A>. The concert was amazing, the most engaging one we’ve been to so far with the BSO, most likely because we were about ten feet from the feet of maestro James Levine<\/a>, in his first season as the BSO’s new musical director (and their first American-born one, at that, out of 14 of them since the BSO’s founding in 1881, no less). The orchestra, the soloists (including the incredible Lorraine Hunt Lieberson<\/a>), and the Tanglewood Chorus were terrific.

We capped off the weekend, after getting our real, live Christmas tree (a first for me), with another concert, the University Chorale of Boston College<\/a> in their holiday concert, also good, in a very different way. The musical selection was very nice, from the traditional to the unexpected. Now that the tree is up and the music is in the air, all we need is a little snow. Is that too much to ask?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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