went to the last performance of the season of the London Philharmonic Orchestra yesterday… having paid 12 pounds and an opportunity to watch the champion’s league finals live on TV… for someone like me with a grounding in indian classical, the concert was a bit of a letdown…
the pieces they chose were way too jerky… instruments suddenly started playing and stopped playing… too much changed in too little time… i expected it to be a lot smoother and more ‘peaceful’ (hope you get what i’m saying)… unfortunately it wasn’t…
of course it was great coordination on the part of over 50 musicians to come together and go through the process of playing some of maybe western classical music’s not-among-the-best pieces… but the fact that it was so well coordinated and so well practised left some kind of emptiness… basically due to the size of the troupe, the spontaneity that is so evident in indian music (where not more than 5-6 people take the stage at a time) was lacking…
lots more to say but not able to articulate and write it down… more on this later…