Hilary Hahn @ Sorasota
… more pix on Reddit
A wonderful night at Sarasota‘s Van Wezel. The night is a sell out with Hilary Hahn. According to the management, it’s the last concert of the season and the season is a solid sell out too.
Tonight’s program:
- Carlos Simon’s Four Black American Dances
- Brahms‘ violin concerto
- Beethoven‘s 5th symphony
Carlos Simon (1986-) is in his late 30s (39?) who was born in Washington DC, grew up in Atlanta. Tonight’s program includes his
- Ring Shout, (hand clapping)
- Waltz
- Tap!
- Holy Dance
The last one Holy Dance, instead of clapping with hands, it uses two pieces of wood (?) clapping, which kind of like Chinese 快板 kuaiban, a folk storytelling art that utilizes two rectangle bamboos, tied with a string. The storyteller uses one hand to make the two bamboos banging rhythmically while reciting the story in fast pace. The musicians at this concert use two hands to bang.
Arts have no borders.
Hahn dressed in a dark blue gown that flows as she enters, and plays the piece flawlessly, and gives one encore. She’s one of the younger elite that tours consistently, so we get to see her/them often. [Anne-Sophie Mutter (1963; Joshua Bell (1967-); Hahn (1979-); Julia Fischer (1983-); ] Btw, Joshua Bell is performing next March, no program yet.
Initially, tonight’s program had Hahn playing Eric Korngold’s violin concerto. We like Hahn but don’t like the Korngold’s piece. But then later for some reason, I checked the concert again (I don’t think I’d ever done this before…) saw they switched to Brahms. That’s it! (Actually, Korngold’s piece is going to be played at Mahaffey Theater next month … maybe they don’t want to saturated this one … just a guess but I’m so glad they switched it.)
In 2022, I took long walks in Lichtentaler Allee, Baden Baden, Germany. Brahms’ statue is one of handful structures in this narrow park. One side is the trail and other side is houses. One of them was occupied by Clara Schumann (1819-96). Reportedly, he was deeply in love with her, and never married. She never re-married.
Beethoven’s 5th is as pricelessly spectacular as ever.
Both pieces from the old masters are my go to swim music, especially now that my Fitbit watch is broken – the 2nd one in 7 months (the first one was in 11 months … that’s it! For Pete’s sake, I only use it to track my laps in the pool.) Brahms’ violin concerto means a miler in the pool and the 5th is about 1,400 yards.
Ok, now to the concert hall, which offers great view but has poor design in seating: most rows are entered from both end (if not all the rows), which is a concern for the people that sit in the middle. Although all patrons are polite and pleasant, getting up to let others to pass but the long rows start to get to me. How could people to escape in case of a fire, seriously? Once at Palladium in St. Pete, I saw a lady fire Marshall or an inspector, who said that it’s their regulation, “making sure the doors are open …” NOW, I’m thinking how on earth did Van Wezel pass the fire code?
Lastly, a few patrons still clap during the movements … but stopped shortly since no one joined them. Here is one comment about clapping from a gent on Reddit, who was also there.
节目:
Carlos Simon (1986-)
Brahms
concerto
Beethoven’s 5th
美丽的一天
虽然没看到日落
现代作曲家 西蒙的作品真不错
二位故人的作品是挚爱我
最近泳表坏了 现在靠这些作曲家的作品算
的距离
贝爷的五 1,300 yards
老勃的协奏曲 1哩
谢谢大师们替俺节约$ [调皮]
Johannes Brahms: 1833-97
Lichtentaler Allee is a lovely narrow park in Baden Baden, Germany. One side is the trail and the other side two stories houses. One of them was Clara Schumann’s, (1819-96) was the wife of composer Robert Schumann (1810-56).
Johannes Brahms (1833–97) never married, rumored was deeply in love with Clara. She never re-marry, would die in Frankfurt.
Lichtentaler Allee 是德国巴登巴登一座美丽的狭窄公园. 公园一侧是小道,另一侧是住家.其中一栋是克拉拉·舒曼 (1819-96) 的房子 – 她是作曲家罗伯特·舒曼 (1810-56) 的妻子
约翰内斯·勃拉姆斯 (1833-97) 终身未婚. 据传他深爱着克拉拉.克从未再婚; 最终在法兰克福去世.
2022年去 巴登巴登时照的. 看着他的像 心中有些难过
