Last symphony this season

 London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Michael Tilson Thomas.

That all should sound reasonably entertaining.

I even got new curls for this concert, but they frizzed up by the end,

because my head was hurting so much.

 

Benjamin Britten, Shostakovich and Sibelius.

A lot of bad music was written, but to put them all into one evening is not fair.

I could've been equally annoyed attending a rock concert. 

 

 

I'm not complaining. It's not in my nature to complain :)

At least we looked very pretty and feeling good about deciding not

to renew our subscription for next season.

We have a lot of good music to hear that cost far less.

 

But will you look at my new flapper curlies?

I love 'em!!!!!!



Symphony Date 5

National Symphony Orchestra of Mexico night.

Feel like Edwardian for the night. Why not?

My handsome baby

Who is ready for a concert?

Buck will hold down the rugs while we are gone.
That's his favorite job.

Spitzers wants to go.
He is always ready to party.

Fantastic concert! The best of the season so far. We loved the authentic
Mexican music the orchestra played.
Alfonso Moreno sure knows how to make a guitar sound good.
They played the Brahms 4th, but Mark and I agreed that we should
leave that for the Germans to perform.


 

Symphony Date 4

Ready for an Italian dinner date and Baroque evening
with my sweetie. 

 

Avi Avital played his Mandolin and he is amazing!

The Venice Baroque Orchestra

Symphony Date No. 3

 

Long program by Maurice Ravel and some Prokofiev.

Rotterdam Philharmonic with Yannick Nezet-Seguin conductor.

The phil sounded very nice and we liked the conductor a lot.

Another beautiful evening in Palm Desert.

 

"Viennese Nights" A Grand Ball

Ballroom dancing in San Diego

The Balboa Park Club Ballroom

Ready for some waltzes and polkas
Our Edwardian outfit.
My "just walked on the beach" skirt and top dressed up  with Baltic Ambers.

The group had to march for the first set and the choreography was beautiful.
They even played the Radetzky March just for me.
 

Clothes from 1915 or so and/or formal wear was required.

My Zydeco dance teacher, in the center, also likes ballroom dancing.

Symphony Date No. 2

 

If you say smile, I will not do it.
You have to say: frown and then I smile :)

Buck is ready for a symphony night.
Someone has to baby sit Spitzers and that's his job.
He is not too happy about that.
 

You have exactly 2 seconds to take that picture!
 

Hahaha.... Very Funny honey!
 

I had this same look on my face on my high school
graduation. That was after a couple of glasses of champagne,
this is after splitting 4 cords of wood this weekend.
 

We like the fountain in the background.
 



 

Nobody offered to take picture of the two of us tonight.

Italian dinner and Tiramisu followed by a wonderful concert.

Program:
Los Angeles Philharmonics conducted by Miguel Harth-Bedoya
Franz Liszt: Mephisto Waltz No.1
Frederick Chopin: Piano Concerto No.2 in F
            Emanuel Ax, Piano
Sergei Prokofiev: Suite from Cinderella

Mark said, he would normally not go to the symphony to hear these pieces.
The beauty of being a subscriber is to hear concerts that we normally would not hear.
After all, we can't always listen to Mahler and Beethoven. Right?

Symphony Date No. 1