symphony

last night paul and i went to the symphony. it was a wonderful evening, (btw, paul's christmas gift {to himself} was season tickets to the symphony, we're going four more times too :). it was an amazing concert of rachmaninoff rhapsody on a theme of paganini and bruckner's 9th symphony. the pianist for rhapsody was AMAZING!!! and it was thoroughly enjoyable. i'm not as familiar with bruckner, but i really thought it was well done. i loved how the music was done though i only liked the music, if that makes sense. it was very moving. the conductor specialized in bruckner when he lived in europe, and he'd studied at the cathedral where bruckner did a lot of his composing, so he really knew how it originally sounded. they modified the symphony hall by raising the ceiling and opening some damper curtains so the sound was more of a cathedral echo, it was really impressive. if anyone's interested, there's some really interesting blends of flute and clarinet mixing in with strings for a really cool effect.