An excellent event~
Mar. 31st, 2009 10:44 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mojosmomSunday afternoon, I went to a marvelous concert! Countertenor David Daniels with the English Concert under the direction of Harry Bicket. The first half was Bach, the second half Handel. I have heard Daniels in performance at Lyric Opera on more than one occasion, but this was the first time I had heard him in recital.
Oddly enough, my sister saw him a couple of days earlier in San Francisco. Someone had given her a ticket, which turned out to be a front row seat. She told me two of the violinists were flirting with each other. I couldn't see that from Row P. Not that I'm complaining about Row P, mind! Particularly as mine was a half-price ticket. (Should your city be on Goldstar, I highly recommend signing up.)
I picked up Daniels' CD, Sento Amor, music by Mozart, Gluck and Handel, and, as a result, "Che farò senza Euridice?" from Orfeo ed Euridice has been running through my head all day. But if you are going to have an earworm, it's not a bad one to have!
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I am headed to Cleveland tomorrow to visit my sister. She has planned an action-packed few days! The impetus for the visit (other than to see her) is the exhibit, Kimono As Art: The Landscapes of Itchiku Kubota, at the Canton Museum of Art, but there's a lot of other stuff to do. I'll drive back on Monday, so I may be too tired to go to my Italian class, but I'm taking my homework with me!
Oddly enough, my sister saw him a couple of days earlier in San Francisco. Someone had given her a ticket, which turned out to be a front row seat. She told me two of the violinists were flirting with each other. I couldn't see that from Row P. Not that I'm complaining about Row P, mind! Particularly as mine was a half-price ticket. (Should your city be on Goldstar, I highly recommend signing up.)
I picked up Daniels' CD, Sento Amor, music by Mozart, Gluck and Handel, and, as a result, "Che farò senza Euridice?" from Orfeo ed Euridice has been running through my head all day. But if you are going to have an earworm, it's not a bad one to have!
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I am headed to Cleveland tomorrow to visit my sister. She has planned an action-packed few days! The impetus for the visit (other than to see her) is the exhibit, Kimono As Art: The Landscapes of Itchiku Kubota, at the Canton Museum of Art, but there's a lot of other stuff to do. I'll drive back on Monday, so I may be too tired to go to my Italian class, but I'm taking my homework with me!
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Date: 2009-03-31 08:27 pm (UTC)I have been trying to track that CD down for AGES because of just that particular track! What an odd coincidence!!
I heard che puro ciel with David Daniels and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment on a radio station in a taxi once and it so blew me away I had to jump through hoops to find out what it was.
I have since acquired several recordings of it, but not *the* recording - it's turned into a peculiar quest.
Anyway, I bet it was an AMAZING concert. Lucky you!!
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Date: 2009-03-31 08:59 pm (UTC)He's pretty awesome.
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Date: 2009-04-01 12:45 am (UTC)Have fun!