The Isidore String Quartet played tonight and they were amazingly good. They were also young players. They started off the evening with the Mozart Quartet in C Major "Dissonance" which it was at some parts of the piece. The second selection also had some "dissonance" throughout the piece. After the intermission the Quartet ended the night with a Mendelssohn String Quartet in E-flat Major.
The playing was spectacular throughout all of the selections. I just felt that at times it was a little over the top for the first concert of the season. Sometimes it's nice to slowly get into the "dissonance", to get there after a concert or two of nice traditional melodic music. That didn't happen tonight. It was like they jumped right into some really intense all over the place string quartet extravagance. It sounded great but I think I just wasn't ready for it on the first night of the season.
Then there was a strange situation where someone near the front of the auditorium had there phone set for some kind of sleep inducing sounds from nature that drifted across the room. The musicians must have heard it on the stage because they looked around in that direction with funny expressions on their faces. Then they just continued to play.
10/8 Tuesday
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