Moscow State Symphony by Brittany

This performance wasn’t one of my favorites. Not only was it extremely long and in a way monotonous, but I just didn’t find it to be to interesting. Don’t get me wrong the first ten minutes or so I found the piece to be interesting, however after we got more and more into the pieces they almost seemed to morph into one long, continuous, lump of music. I think if each of the individual pieces hadn’t been so long it could have, and would have been more enjoyable.

I did however enjoy the encore pieces, they more depth and interest to them compared to the rest of the music. Though I would have enjoyed one extra song as an encore five or six more of them were just too many. Then the way the conductor continually left the stage, I don’t understand why. Unless he was trying to show how the symphony was able to function with out his help. Which in my opinion doesn’t make any sense, and I think he cause himself to take away from the musical performance by continually drawing more attention to himself.

My favorite part of the night by far though had to be when we were able to speak with on of the clarinet players. The fact that he only spoke Russian was really interesting, I really enjoyed just sitting and listening to him speak. He helped us understand a lot about how life in a symphony works and what a day of travel is like for them. He also gave us some more information on the background of the Moscow State Symphony and Pavel Kogan. The last thing about this performance that I found interesting was the soloist Stefan Jackiw. He has so much talent along with all of the other players in this assemble but he is at lest half of their age if not a third. It’s amazing to see how much one can accomplish even early on in life if you put your mind to it and work hard, and I think he was an excellent example of this.