{"id":2226,"date":"2007-09-28T00:29:39","date_gmt":"2007-09-28T04:29:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2007\/09\/night_at_the_ks\/"},"modified":"2007-09-28T00:29:39","modified_gmt":"2007-09-28T04:29:39","slug":"night_at_the_ks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2007\/09\/night_at_the_ks\/","title":{"rendered":"Night At The KSO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As mentioned <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/archives\/002253.html\">here<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.knoxvillesymphony.com\/\">Knoxville Symphony Orchestra<\/a>, offered a limited number of free concert tickets to bloggers.<br \/>\nTonight was the night;  I showed up at the Will Call window and sure enough&#8211;my tickets were waiting.  I appreciate the marketing people who organized this event.  [Though I might note that in terms of publicity, this blog offers an extremely low return on investment.]<br \/>\nThis was the first time I&#8217;ve been in the Tennessee Theater since it was renovated.  [No, I don&#8217;t get out much.]  It looks good.  The interior colors are nice, the bathroom is bright and clean, and the auditorium seats are comfortable&#8211;though a little crowded.<br \/>\nThe concert featured four works by American &#8220;Masters&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Short Ride in a Fast Machine<\/em>, John Adams<\/li>\n<li>Concerto No. 3 for Piano and Orchestra, OP. 95, Lowell Liebermann<\/li>\n<li><em>Appalachian Spring Suite<\/em>, Aaron Copland<\/li>\n<li><em>An American in Paris<\/em>, George Gershwin<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It was a good mixture of styles.  I&#8217;m not a big fan of contemporary music, so I didn&#8217;t enjoy the first two works as much as the last two.  Still, they all had interesting aspects.  Jeffrey Biegel, the featured pianist, is quite talented.  How someone can play a 30-minute arrangement like that without music is beyond me.<br \/>\nI enjoyed <em>Appalachian Spring<\/em> the most.  It stimulated my imagination.  According to the KSO program, when the piece premiered, the program booklet read:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Part and parcel of our lives is that moment of Pennsylvania spring when there was &#8216;a garden eastward in Eden.&#8217;<br \/>\nSpring was celebrated by a man and woman building a house with joy and love and prayer; by a revivalist and his followers in their shouts of exaltation; by pioneering woman with her dreams of the Promised Land.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Perhaps I need a taste of the promised land.<br \/>\nSince I hadn&#8217;t been to an orchestra performance in while, I surveyed the audience.  The largest demographic group appeared to be seniors.  But there was a fairly strong showing of teens, too.  The conductor mentioned that several youth musical groups were present.  It&#8217;s good to see the young folks interested in the arts.<br \/>\nAfter the concert there was a blogger&#8217;s reception downstairs.  Unfortunately, I was unable to join it because the person I was with needed to leave.  Maybe next time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2007\/09\/night_at_the_ks\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Night At The KSO\"><p>As mentioned here, the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra, offered a limited number of free concert tickets to bloggers. Tonight was the night; I showed up at the Will Call window and sure enough&#8211;my tickets were waiting. I appreciate the marketing people who organized this event. 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