Special musical memories

[goldentone]

I'll never forget the first time I went to the symphony.  I was so excited.
On the program was Mendelssohn's Hebrides Overture and Brahms' Symphony No. 1 and one other piece.  If I remember right, Hebrides was first up.  They started playing, and then the cellos came in solo with that one theme, and I was just overcome with the beauty.  It was so real.  I think it was kind of surreal.  I had heard it many times on CD, but this was the real thing, and so real and so beautiful it was almost too wonderful
to take in.   

Oh, the longings of the heart.

*Ruminates. . . so real. . . sur real*

[pianowolfi]

I'll never forget the first time I went to the symphony.  I was so excited.
On the program was Mendelssohn's Hebrides Overture and Brahms' Symphony No. 1 and one other piece.  If I remember right, Hebrides was first up.  They started playing, and then the cellos came in solo with that one theme, and I was just overcome with the beauty.  It was so real.  I think it was kind of surreal.  I had heard it many times on CD, but this was the real thing, and so real and so beautiful it was almost too wonderful
to take in.   

Oh, the longings of the heart.

*Ruminates. . . so real. . . sur real*

Hmmmmmm I like that I love the Hebrides, they were one of the most beloved pieces of my childhood. Then of course Dvorak's "New World Symphony", Mozart "Jupiter" and "Haffner" and first of all "Prague" Symphony. I think "Prague" and "Jupiter" were my absolute nonplusultra favorites. Then Schubert "Unfinished" of course, and "Wanderer Fantasy"

"so real- surreal" is also quite interesting lol *lost in remembrances and thinking*

[pianistimo]

john browning was the my first concert pianist memory.  he was impressive to me although i can't remember what he played now.  barry douglas at the 1985 tchaikovsky competition.

[mattgreenecomposer]

I met Tori Amos once and shook her hand (which were tiny) that was pretty cool...

[amelialw]

Stephen Hough playing Brahms concerto No.2

[thalbergmad]

I love the Hebrides

I guess Mendelssohn must have as well, as a trip to Fingals Cave in the 1840's was bordering on the bleeding dangerous.

Thal

[rc]

From an ill-fated camping trip, after taking a friend to the hospital to get a big cut on his face fixed, another friend who may have had hypothermia put in a CD at the hotel.  I was very receptive to the music and the Allegretto to LVB's 7th gave me vivid images of green vines growing into each other twining thicker and thicker.  It was like dream music - not just the music but also part ecstacy