Mrs. Brady did a great job yesterday at the
Peter and the Wolf concert. She didn't actually conduct the piece - she narrated. But the
super-cute conductor,
Benjamin Shwartz let her take the baton for a brief moment. The
San Francisco Youth Orchestra is always fun to watch....even though I did notice that the number of long-haired boys decreased dramatically this year (what's up with that?). The
coolest number that they did in addition to Peter and the Wolf was a
percussion piece where a huge
timpani faced the audience and stayed on stage as
4 drummers came up the aisles playing a half beat behind each other on what looked like
snare drums. It was amazing. As you can see, we like to sit over the orchestra so we can see the musicians up close and personal, as well as see the conductor's face. If you've never sat at this angle, I highly recommend it at least once so you can see the
passion in the
facial expressions and hand and body movements that the
conductor puts into each piece.
1 comment:
i agree...i've never been there before and i *LOVED* It...
only one comment..i would say that the 4 additonal drummers were playing Toms.
they seemed taller than a snare...maybe a deep snare is out there?
they carried them like drummers carry snare drums like in drum corps or something? (im not a drummer) but they sounded like tom-toms.
just my 2 cents!
-G
i loved the show!
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