{"id":97,"date":"2008-05-25T16:33:13","date_gmt":"2008-05-25T08:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/25\/sfso-c-do-brahms-and-blow-my-mind\/"},"modified":"2008-05-25T16:33:13","modified_gmt":"2008-05-25T08:33:13","slug":"sfso-c-do-brahms-and-blow-my-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/25\/sfso-c-do-brahms-and-blow-my-mind\/","title":{"rendered":"SFSO &#038; C do Brahms (and blow my mind)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back in February after my <a href=\"http:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/03\/101-in-1001-88-see-the-sf-symphony-live\/\">first experience at the San Francisco Symphony<\/a>, I wrote that if them doing the <i>German Requiem<\/i> (with SFSO Chorus) didn&#8217;t blow my mind, nothing would.<\/p>\n<p>Well, it did. What a beautiful concert. For the first half they did <i>Gestliches Lied<\/i> and <i>Four Songs for Women&#8217;s Chorus<\/i>, which I thought were amazing. At intermission I described the sound to Ryan as like glass globes floating in the air. I don&#8217;t know how they (or Brahms) do it, but that&#8217;s what it sounds like. Brahms is odd because the songs are often sad but they don&#8217;t always sound it.<\/p>\n<p>The Requiem was just wonderful. That piece lives in my soul, so I think it&#8217;s impossible for me to do an adequate description of it. It&#8217;s got so many tender and lovely moments, so many powerful moments, and so many sad moments, and the ensembles expressed it all perfectly, both emotionally and artistically. I savored my favorite moments, occasionally unable to resist silently forming the words in my own mouth and remembering how it felt to sing them. And I rediscovered other beautiful bits that I often pass over as I listen preferentially to my favorite movements. <\/p>\n<p>Actually, the only weak spot for me (and this is perhaps more my taste than my artistic judgment) was the soloists. I felt the soprano was fine but too &#8216;soprano&#8217;-ish and not very expressive, and the baritone was too quiet and his voice quality was blurry. But the choir and orchestra were absolutely on.<\/p>\n<p>My mind is officially blown.<\/p>\n<p><i>Tod, wo ist dein Stachel? H\u00c3\u00b6lle, wo ist dein Sieg?<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in February after my first experience at the San Francisco Symphony, I wrote that if them doing the German Requiem (with SFSO Chorus) didn&#8217;t blow my mind, nothing would. Well, it did. What a beautiful concert. For the first half they did Gestliches Lied and Four Songs for Women&#8217;s Chorus, which I thought were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14,23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}