Midori and the Symphony

Cultural outing for February: an evening at the Symphony with Lara. This was Lara's first time ever at the Symphony, so I made sure to pick a really good concert. Midori playing the Bruch Violin Concerto No.1 and Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducting Dvorak's Symphony No.7. Superb! Yannick, who is normally conducting the Metropolitan Orchestra in Montreal, is vibrant and energetic, his style quite unusual, even for the musicians I would think. We had a chance to listen to the pre-concert talk, hosted by one of the musicians from the orchestra, and she told the audience that they were quite impressed with the young conductor's approach, telling them to have fun, to think of the music as being sexy.

I hope that these evenings at the Symphony become a tradition...