Twin cities: Ceri sums up
Mon 2 Feb 2009
Sorry to have cut short the end of my St Paul story. I’ve now been back a week and a half and it’s taken me this long to get over the jet lag. (Sorry I promised my colleagues at the end of last week that I would moan about jet lag no longer, but here I go again…)
The last few days of our visit in St Paul were the most exciting as after all the preparation the performances of Goebbels’ Songs of Wars I have seen were finally to take place.
For both the Friday and Saturday night concerts in the Ordway Center, the St Paul Chamber Orchestra led from the piano by Pierre-Laurent Aimard performed Beethoven’s 5th Piano Concerto. With insider knowledge on what was to come in the 2nd half of the concert I was intrigued to how the audience would react as the 2 pieces couldn’t have been more different.
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St Paul in pictures
Tue 20 Jan 2009
A few pics from our time in St Paul, Minnesota, courtesy of Ceri Jones. The players who were in the Heiner Goebbels concerts have now been joined by the rest of the Orchestra and Rachel Podger, and they’ll be performing 2 concerts there as well as 3 joint concerts with the St Paul Chamber Orchestra. We hope to post more news soon.
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Fri 16 Jan 2009
We had our first Goebbels rehearsal yesterday evening. Here is the orchestra rehearsing on the vast stage at the Ordway Center. It seems
Americans do everything on a much vaster scale than us Brits. Not only breakfast (which today included muffins, bagels, waffles, fruit, omelette, French toast, scrambled eggs, sausage, bacon, yoghurt, cereal, coffee, fruit juice…..) but weather, and now concert halls too!