...as you find your seat and look down at the stage and immediately notice there are two harps, two full set of tympani, five flautists, two contra-bass clarinet, a real glockenspiel, and some sort of massive wood drum thing with a giant Viking style wooden mallet resting on it.
Last night I watched an amazing performance of Mahler's Symphony no. 6 performed by the Austin Symphony Orchestra. The weather was so amazing we hung out on the veranda overlooking the city of Austin from across Lady Bird Johnson Lake enjoying our cocktails and just loving the night air. Then we found our seats just in time for the first movement and were carried away for 80 minutes of musical paintings of the world Mahler lived in. At one point I wanted to holla out, "more cowbell!!!" But chose to refrain.
While I was on the third level, called the balcony, and the orchestra was pretty far from me, I still got the enjoy an extremely broad dynamic range from a single violin soft enough to hear the air noise of the room to the full blast of the larger than normal orchestra putting all they had into it and that huge drum thing packing a massive punch. My ears were actually ringing after that and only settled down later this afternoon.
What a great experience!
Last night I watched an amazing performance of Mahler's Symphony no. 6 performed by the Austin Symphony Orchestra. The weather was so amazing we hung out on the veranda overlooking the city of Austin from across Lady Bird Johnson Lake enjoying our cocktails and just loving the night air. Then we found our seats just in time for the first movement and were carried away for 80 minutes of musical paintings of the world Mahler lived in. At one point I wanted to holla out, "more cowbell!!!" But chose to refrain.
While I was on the third level, called the balcony, and the orchestra was pretty far from me, I still got the enjoy an extremely broad dynamic range from a single violin soft enough to hear the air noise of the room to the full blast of the larger than normal orchestra putting all they had into it and that huge drum thing packing a massive punch. My ears were actually ringing after that and only settled down later this afternoon.
What a great experience!