Sat 10 Feb
Aujourd’hui, je vais rendre visite à mon pote Herlen qui habite à côté de San Diego; ce soir, John Williams y donne un concert et nous avons acheté de pures places de ouf! Ca va être supra top. J’essaierai de prendre des photos, promis !
MASHAW!!!
MAshaw
alors alors alors
cetait comment ?
tu lui as serre la main ?
Il a accepte une petit p*pe?
The good:
- John Williams!!!
- The choice of pieces was interesting, especially The Cowboys, Geisha, the arrangements by John Williams, and – in general – all the pieces which got performed with video
- Close Encounter of the Third Kind: great performance IMO
The bad:
- The 1st violin (Schindler’s list…)
- Ensemble issues: the sections weren’t very tight and sometimes had a hard time being together.
- English horn player in Geisha
- Brass section in Imperial March
The ugly:
- The Copley Symphony Hall isn’t good acoustically: We had pretty good orchestra seats, but couldn’t hear the strings (somehow, the further away the instrument, the better we could hear it)
- The horn section wasn’t tight and very often the players were out of tune with each other
- The first horn player’s playing was way below what one can expect from a professional player. His various solos (especially in Princess Leia’s Theme) were played badly; he had a hard time reaching high notes; and often times it seems he was playing the music for the first time (no practice). Maybe he was sick?
Anyway… it was a nice evening… but I was a bit disapointed! At least it gave me the chance to see JW for the second time in a live performance (but I consider his Pittsburgh performance in 2000 to be far superior).
Pourquoi t’as écris en anglais ???
J’ai presque rien compris !
C’est pour te faire réviser ton anglais… tu sais, pour quand tu viendras me voir à Los Angeles !
Il a ecrit en anglais parce qu’il etait bourre, c’est sur.