Friday, September 26, 2008

Awesome performance

Yesterday ( 26/9 ), again a day with the same routine. ( I am not crapping here ), the thing is gonna to be posted, "listen" to me first.

At night, I called my teacher, my science teacher who taught me in F2 whether free to go for tea. ( She looked like more a friend than a teacher. ) Hehe... She asked me whether wanna watch a concert ( from dvd ). I immediately agreed. Prepare myself to go to her house. ( wait la, about to start it seriously ).

I watched the first piece ( song ), "Voices of Spring", nice ( but not my liking ). By the way, let me introduce the orchestra and the conductor ( or composer too? ) first. The conductor, Andre Rieu, with his orchestra, Strauss orchestra ( if I am not mistaken ). They play mainly the Waltz.

I like the performance. In addition with the sound effect, is just like watching the concert in live. Wow... The players do not being restricted in their clothes, well.
overall, there is a common part, they wear gown ( not the same kind, same colour ) which make them looked gorgeous.

The special part about this conductor is he is quite humorous. His concert is not really formal, a bit informal, he arranges some humorous part to make people laugh, gives people a feeling of relaxation, not making the phenomenon so serious until not much smile. He always smile. Forgot to state that, he doesn't hold the baton, instead he plays the violin with his orchestra, and I really impressed with their accuracy in the beats. They do not run off the beat at all. Of course, there is an overall coordination among the conductor and his orchestra. His playing also good. And some of the members of the orchestra can even play more than two instruments. Some additional players like the marching band members, etc, ( which I also don't know what is the name of the instrument played ) also inserted in the encore songs. The players are awesome. Impressed...

What I can say is, different conductors has their own style of conducting their orchestra. We can't say much on their style, We accept and try to enjoy it. Anyway, I like the style. Make people feel relax.

I watched the second time today. Won't be boring for watching so many times.
Sorry here for my lack of nice or better words for description. I wish I can describe better. I also know that picture can bring more words.

1 comment:

Webmaster Sally said...

Yes, you did good & got the name correct. André Rieu & his Johann Strauss Orchestra. They are from Holland, but famous world wide.
It sounds as if you were viewing Live in Vienna.
I too enjoy that the ochestra wears colorful gowns, and they are allowed to enjoy the music they play. Going to a Live concert is great, and tickets are going on sale next week for Andre's 2009 North American Tour. He has many International Dates as well.
Every Fan is welcome at www.AndreRieuFans.com
Kindest Regards, Sally