Bates/Bowdoin Fall Concert

I had fun this weekend playing with the Bates and Bowdoin orchestras.They combined to present a concert with music by Mendelsohhn, Haydn and Bartok. This was being prepared since the beginning of the semester, and although I didn't make every rehearsal, I made enough to have been included in the concert.

I was honored to be playing under the baton of Hiroya Miura and Roland Vazquez-- they inspire confidence and explain music in a way that makes it interesting and manageable. When I say manageable, I am of course talking about a music that is complicated and has many layers-- symphonic music is not a single listen but a series and/or lifetime of listens. It can be interpreted in different ways and one always has to wonder how the composer originally wanted it-- unless that composer is still alive.

Thank you great composers, conductors, and symphony members. This class may have just been a grade, but the trip we took at the end together was a worthy memory!

(Christian prior to the concert)