It seems almost as though I posted this entry yesterday instead of last August, but here it is, just past the first week of May, and there are just over two weeks left in the Oregon Symphony’s 2015-2016 season. It’s a pretty cool final month, too. We just finished playing two concerts of the film music of John Williams, the soundtrack to Back to the Future (with the film), and we’re about to play our penultimate classical series concert of the season this coming weekend, which features three fantastic pieces: Schumann’s Overture to Genoveva, Hindemith’s Symphony Mathis der Maler, and Brahms’ Second Piano Concerto (with Garrick Olhsson). The following weekend, we close out our classical season with Gustav Mahler’s massive Symphony No. 3.
The end of this season will make 21 years so far with the Oregon Symphony for me. In some ways, things have never been better. In others, they’ve never been worse. We’ll see what the next season brings.