I went to the Idaho State Symphony last night and was totally blown away.
The first piece was written by a professor here at ISU.
It's called Districts of Metal Near Water...which I thought was a little weird, but whatever.
It started out with the percussion imitating the rain. And it was AWESOME!
It literally sounded just like we were standing in the middle of a rainstorm.
This piece would get really quiet and then boom with thunder and waves and all sorts of amazing things.
The next piece was definitely not as eventful as the first. I found it boring :P
And then I got to experience Vivaldi's Four Seasons for the first time.
Aaron Berofsky (pictured above) was the guest soloist and I don't think I've ever seen anybody who is more amazing at the violin as he is.
He had the entire thing memorized and I don't think I could ever make any violin make the gorgeous sounds that he was making...it was magical!
Here's a funny thing that happened last night...
After the closing notes of Summer rang out everyone rose to their feet and applauded.
They did an amazing job, there's no doubting that...but that was only half of this piece!
The conductor turned around and motioned for everyone to sit.
"We're only at September 2nd!" he said.
After a pause of about 10 seconds Matthew said, "Ooooh, Four Seasons. I get it!" Or something like that.
Hahaha! That's like one of my fears, to clap before it's over. Humanities was my minor, and some of those hard core classical musicians get pretty offended if you didn't know what was going on. I learned quickly to keep my hands still until the guy with the stick or the musician himself bowed, even when other people started cheering, becuase half the time the audience was wrong!
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