In the interest of fairness/completeness, I thought I'd include the classical concerts that I attend (all too infrequently). This was the pre-concert before the real season kicks off 10/9/09 with Beethoven's Ninth. The guest conductor was a very young, vivacious Mexican conductor, Alondra de la Parra, who lent an air of fun to the proceedings.The first pieces included a famous Mexican piece, Danzon No. 2 from Marquez, which was nice and airy, and a very experimental, fractured piece, a concerto for bass trombone (?) entitled subZERO by Schnyder. The bass trombonist, Stefan Schulz, plays with the Berliner Philharmoniker and comes across like a regular badass. He was great and played a short encore piece with solo piano that showed off his virtuosity.
The reading of Beethoven's 7th was great, I thought ... energetic and youthful. It's hard to go wrong with core Beethoven pieces, of course, but it was a thrill to hear the CSO do a good job with this.
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