Eric, it is fantastic to see you and
I know so many of us are just so
eager because the boy C Philharmonic
is back in person with performances.
How do you feel and how does your team feel?
Well, that's a great question.
Uhm, you know. Obviously we had
our first two performances just
a few weeks ago on October 16th.
And 17th uh, the shape of water was
the name of the concerts, and we
featured some tremendous guests artists.
Uh, we had our audiences with us,
and both Boise and Nampa.
And the Philharmonic was together on stage,
and I think it was just
an incredible feeling.
It's even anticipate this moment for
so long and you try to encapsulate
what it's going to be like.
You try to anticipate what
it's going to be like,
but you can't until you're there.
You can't even for those
first four rehearsals.
So prior to the two performances,
we have four rehearsal.
And that's an incredible feeling.
But then when you have our audience is there
are live audiences there in the faults?
There's nothing like it,
and every audience is different.
But both audiences were
incredibly enthusiastic.
The Philharmonic was incredibly enthusiastic,
so all around,
it was just unforgettable weekend.
I think the perfect way to kick off this
most special of seasons.
You know, I, I almost feel like it's kind
of like a rebirth of performance, right?
It's like we all took being in person
for granted and that energy in the
room and the space and then now we
all kind of had to find a different way.
But now we're back in person and
it's just like it's like that first
time all over again, right?
Just that it's true, it's true.
Yeah, it's just that yeah,
it's rediscovering
something that we can kind
of do with muscle memory.
We we are so good at this mechanism
of putting on performances,
it's hard hard work very, very difficult.
Nevertheless, we know how to do it.
But now we're looking at it through
a completely different lens,
and it's just, I think so much more
special and so much more intimate. Yes,
absolutely yeah.
OK, so tell us about those
performances that you were
hinting to the shape of water.
What made that so
special? Well for me, first of all,
the repertoire was just incredibly exciting.
First of all, we began the performances
with this fantastic work by Duke Ellington.
I named that we think of as the
great bandleader, the great pianist,
the Great Artist American Icon of Jazz,
but in fact he did write a good
amount of orchestral music,
especially at the end of his career,
and so this is a valley score that
he worked on for Alvin Ailey.
Alvin Ailey Dance Company to be
performed at Lincoln Center in New York.
It's called the river,
and we performed 3 movements of that sweet,
and it's it's a great fun.
It's beautiful. It's a light jazz waltz.
It's straight ahead.
Kind of bluesy sound sounds that you
don't typically hear in the concert hall,
along with sharazad, a perennial favorite.
But it was fun.
It was looking at this theme
of water and nature,
but in a very different way.
A jazzy way.
But
we gotta let everybody know about
your upcoming performance in November.
Tell us about that so we don't miss out.
Of course, on Saturday,
November 6th and Sunday, November 7th,
we will be performing three works,
three classics.
The Brahms Academic Festival Overture,
which will feature a side by side
with seniors from our Youth Orchestra.
So always a very exciting,
fun thing there, Mozart.
Very youthful Paris Symphony.
He wrote it when he was 22
and looking for work in Paris.
I think we can.
All you know,
understand what that feels like,
and Dvorak Symphony #7,
which is really his maturing into a
symphonic master's in absolute masterpiece.
So the concert is justifiably
called musical masterpieces
Love. I was so excited and I know
our viewers are just excited as well.
Where can people go to get those
tickets and to learn more? Absolutely,
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Orgs as the quickest solution
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