A little vacation to Seattle afforded me the opportunity to 1) visit my dear friend; 2) check out the Seattle landscape and its associated environs; and 3) hear the always-in-the-news Gerard Schwarz do his thing. To be honest, I was excited to do those things in that order. After having read so many things about the Music Director of the Seattle Symphony Orchestra, most of it not very favorable, one can hardly blame me for not being too excited about hearing him and his orchestra go through the motions one more time. But this was going to be different. After all, one doesn’t get to hear a major orchestra put on such an imposing and austere piece as Johann Sebastian Bach’s Mass in B minor. In today’s world of overflowing, post-romantic orchestra rosters, always with at least 100 members down to hecklephone, it would be insane to have an orchestra put 80% of its staff on vacation as only a baroque orchestra is needed. And yet, that is what Schwarz was able to do for his performance of the Mass on Maundy Thursday.
Month: March 2008
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