In this week’s Portland Mercury, from our own Classical Beaver, aka Angry Symphony Guy:
OREGON SYMPHONY, COLIN CURRIE
(Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 SW Broadway) The Oregon Symphony’s first classical concert of the 2012/13 season rightfully deserves an exhaustive six-page spread, but the fucking idgits who run this craptastic “newspaper” wouldn’t know culture if it bit them on their skinny-jeaned douchetard asses. So here’s a preview that even the PBR-addled brain of a Mercury music editor can comprehend: Finnish up front and Italian on the back end, Saturday’s program features several epic hits penned by Jean Sibelius and Ottorino Respighi. As if that weren’t kick-ass enough, the symphony once again exceeds expectations by sharing the stage with an internationally renowned soloist. Colin Currie is percussion royalty, and he’ll be jamming on a five-octave marimba, a metal vibraphone, and a panoply of exotic instruments, showcasing a super fresh composition written especially for him. Unless you’ve already made plans to hear (yet another) whiny trustafarian strum his way through a setlist of half-assed introspective shit, do yourself a favor and put down this wretched rag, order some symphony tickets, and experience what it’s like to have your mind blown by 70-plus musicians of the highest caliber. ANGRY SYMPHONY GUY
3 replies on “best symphony preview blurb – ever”
now, THAT’S a beaver shot with both barrels!
what, are all the hipster twitz @ the merc on an extended munchie break? if so, you jest done gone ‘n’ chewed ’em a new one.
“damn,” you’re goooooood!
We like drums. We like Colin. Yes, come hear intense percussion playing all night long.
Great opening concert. Good Finlandia, the Percussion Concerto was great, orch exc. solist superb. Good Fountain of Rome. BUT… the Pines of Rome blew me away and into tears. It started well, and as it progressed I realized that it was really very well played; and then as it got to the finale, it became a religeous experience! It was flawlessly played and the orchestra was “as one”, a phenomenom that I’ve heard of, but never experienced. It shook me up for an hour afterwards. The ovations that followed indicated to me that much of the audience noticed it too. Wow! Wow! Wow!