Last night at the Detroit Symphony...!!!!!!

[Tyler Durden]

Itzak Perlan played and conducted

Beethoven
Romances 1 and 2 for violin and orchestra

Mendlesohn
all 4 Midsummer's Night Dream exerpts

Mozart
Symphony #40

OMFG. I wept. It just doesn't get better than that.

[bif]

1. Think he'll take over?

As principal conducter when Jarvi leaves?

[demnan]

2. Sounds like a great program

Wish I had been there.

Perlman, like all great interpreters, has his own sound - he has a sweetness of tone and expressiveness - I can see that bringing out the best in the Beethoven.

I've never heard him in person, just on T.V. and through CDs.

[Tyler Durden]

5. Our seats are 3rd row, Center Right, on the aisle.

you can feel the vibration of the Bass from where we sit.

GEE, so THAT is what "Pitsicatto" on the lower strings is SUPPOSED to sound like.

Yum.

[Tyler Durden]

3. He looked like he was having a BALL.

Just like Nemi Jarvi looks like he is having fun.

I will miss that man. I have had a chance to talk to him a couple of times, but not since he announced he was leaving.

Our loss, the east coast's gain.

[bif]

4. The orchestra reallky responds to Jarvi

Don't they? They sound incredible when he's conducting.

[Tyler Durden]

6. And he is a funny, charming man.

big shoes to fill.

[MuseRider]

7. Perlman played with us

several years ago. What an experience! I just wish I had been able to sit in the audience because it was difficult to pay attention to every nuance when you have to play your own part. What I heard was wonderful. Lucky you!

[Tyler Durden]

8. What and where do you play?

I'm an ex-pianist, m'self. Due to right hand injury.