Don Juaaaaaaaan

[GoddessOfGuinness]

screws more girls than you doooooo
He's such a stuuuuuud
You're such a duuuuuud......


Anybody see the Philadelphia Orchestra in Carnegie Hall PBS broadcast tonight?

Or was tonight really all about baseball?

[MuseRider]

1. Oh GOD I love that piece!

My favorite composer, R. Strauss. What an incredible piece of music. I did not see this, I was at my rehearsal until about 10:30. Was it magnificent?

[GoddessOfGuinness]

3. Magnificent is a good word for it........

All Strauss concert...

Renee Fleming- Four Last Songs and YoYo Ma- Don Quixote!

Don Quixote was particularly stunning, but how can you go wrong with YoYo? David Kim had quite a workout all evening with all those wonderful violin solos; and Roberto Diaz's viola solos in Don Quixote were beautiful.

What are you guys working on now?

We just performed Sinfonie Fantastique for our season opener on Saturday.

[MuseRider]

7. We are doing the

Sinfonie Fantastique on our final concert this season! Killer isn't it? We are doing the 5th movement for our Halloween Pops this Saturday and I have been beating myself up over that wonderful Eb clarinet solo, one little trip up and you are done with that one, so far so good. We are also doing the Sorcerers Apprentice, Harry Potter selections (really nice believe it or not), Night on a Bald Mountain and all those kinds of things. It is quite a workout. Our web site is up finally with our season, http://www.topekasymphony.org/. We got our next years season schedule tonight and it is also very nice, our 60th! I used to have your symphony web site but it was stored on a former computer. Could you send it?

[GoddessOfGuinness]

8. Sounds like a great concert!

Funny, we just played Harry Potter on our last concert of last season.
Guess we're on the same wavelength or something! Are you having a costume contest for the kiddies, too?

Thanks for the link!

Here's ours: http://www.columbiaorchestra.org

[MuseRider]

9. Yes we are!

We are also dressing up. Our conductor is such a HAM! I adore him, we are great friends and he does it up really nicely. It is a surprise, we do not know what he will be. Last time he was Count Strickula and arrived on stage in a casket, they kids loved it and so did the parents. It was a smash and lots of fun. I considered going as Eminem after the Mosh video but I figured no one would really know what was up and I really dislike Em anyway except for this one video so I am going in an old ladies Nightgown with a robe, curlers etc. I always wanted to play a concert in my jammies! Did you do the Halloween concert as well? Did you all dress up? Fun isn't it?

Thanks for the link, I think I will go look at it now. I am too pumped after rehearsal to sleep right now.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

11. Our conductor appeared as Dumbledor

A couple of pops concerts ago, we played Star Wars, and I came out to tune the orchestra in a Princess Leia wig.....It was a blast!

[MuseRider]

12. Concertmaster?

I am impressed! That wig must have been something to behold. It can be so much fun. I just love playing, I can't imagine my life without it.

[MuseRider]

10. We just did the Brahms 1

on our first, it looks like our schedules are similar in some ways, funny. Enigma, I love that and the Concerto for Marimba and Orchestra is very nice, we did that a couple of years ago. You have a nice schedule to play. I have never heard the Songs and Dances of Death. I will have to check that one out. Thanks for the link.

[rockydem]

2. what does don juan have to do with the concert?

[GoddessOfGuinness]

5. That was the opening number...

And those are the lyrics some sick horn player gave to the first few notes of the piece. :D

[kokomo]

4. Reminds me of a stupid joke...........

Two Mexican detectives were investigating the murder of Juan
Gonzalez.

"How was he killed?" asked one detective.

"With a golf gun," the other detective replied.

"A golf gun?! What is a golf gun?"

"I don't know. But it sure made a hole in Juan."

[GoddessOfGuinness]

6. Haha!

I used to know a trombone player named Juan Gonzalez...but I think he was Puerto Rican.