Santa Cruz County Symphony

I've been busy celebrating my birthday, as well as the birthdays of other Aquarii. By the way, there seem to be more of us every year. How is that possible? Are people converting?
Two weeks later I still find it worthwhile to report on Concert 2 of the SCC Symphony season: Bold and Beautiful, referring to Beethoven's Symphony No. 4, and Brahms' Piano Concerto No 1. The Civic's acoustics are a not that good, the sound seemed muffled, not as crisp as you would like it, but the orchestra was in really great form! We were sitting in the nosebleed section to the right side of the orchestra (where the fans of the opposing team sit at Roller Derby bouts). In terms of sound it doesn't seem to make a big difference where in the auditorium you are, but the way the piano was set up, unfortunately, we didn't see much of soloist Jon Nakamatsu from there. We really liked what we heard, though! Beautiful. The next concert "Romantic Rhapsodies" on March 27/28 (with a Saturday night performance at the Civic, and Sunday matinee at the Mello Center Watsonville) will offer Barber's Adagio for Strings, Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto, and Mendelssohn's Symphony No. 3. Program notes:

2010 marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of the great American composer, Samuel Barber. We feature our string section in his moving “Adagio for Strings.” The emotionalism continues with Klein composition winner, Tessa Lark, in Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto. The concert concludes with Mendelssohn’s melodious Third Symphony, “Scottish.”