Post #582697 by tiki mick on Thu, Mar 31, 2011 10:56 AM

What up man!

yeah, we should get together soon...mix up some cocktails, let the music flow!

I will make sure I post the Symphony's last concert for the season, which will be May 14th (a saturday)...we are doing some super-rad stuff this time. Stuff so hard that my brain feels like it has been smashed with a mallet. Stravinsky's Firebird...which is noteable because it features drop-tuned bass and pretty much every hard, crazy bass technique there is: Advanced harmonics, slides, col legno (using the wood part of the bow). At our rehearsal last night, it was "bass torture" night! They really focused in on us! Also, Saint-Saenz violin "introduction and carpaccio" and a cello concerto by Cano (never heard of it either).

This concert will be at memorial hall, at Chapman university in old town orange. People should come just to hear the Stravinsky. Stravinsky wrote music that is about as dark and forbidding in places, as any I have ever encountered this side of Bartok. It's scary stuff....so of course I absolutely love it!

[ Edited by: lucas vigor 2011-03-31 11:01 ]