We were at NJPAC on Sunday afternoon along with half an auditorium’s worth of folks to hear the Munich Philharmonic. It seemed like a better idea than watching the Giants or Jets struggle and lose.
The orchestra opened with Mendelssohn’s Incidental Music to A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and then played Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1 with Behzod Abduraimov on piano. He is another twenty-something pianist, an Uzbek, who got a standing O from the sparse crowd and rewarded us with an encore. After intermission, they played Symphony No.5 by Shostakovich. Valery Gergiev conducts the orchestra.
Saturday night we had dinner at Leeza and Roger’s place in NYC with Lynn and Bill, kudos to the hosts.
Red is beginning, there's enough for everyone.
NJPAC stage and the Munich Philharmonic.
2 comments:
Do you know what encore he played? It was very familiar. Thought it was Debussy but the guy next to me guessed Beethoven sonata movement. Very different!
Do you know what encore he played? It was very familiar. Thought it was Debussy but the guy next to me guessed Beethoven sonata movement. Very different!
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