Sunday, November 11, 2007

Chamber Orchestra


What started out as a casual evening watching Family W dish out some classical magic turned into nothing short of an auricular catharsis of sorts. It's hard to put a finger on it, but they don't write music like they used to. These days, it's often that they loop a couple of bars and heap on layer upon layers of relatively less complex textures into one cantankerous cacophony of brain jarring/numbing aural dissonance (depending on how you look at it). Not so with Mozart. No so with Mozart...or Macello, Donizetti and possibly Rubinstein and Schostakovitsch. Solos by MW (Mozart) and NW (Rossini) dazzled the audience. And to top it all off, you get treated to a modern worship band performing side-by-side with a chamber orchestra. Respect to the sound crew who managed to pull of this difficult mix (those in that line of ministry will understand just how tricky this can get). I like my weekends this way. It's just right.

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