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Gosh, I don't think I've given anything a bad review in centuries. My policy generally states that if something is bad it's probably not worth bothering to write about it anyway. I'm probably writing this because it wasn't all bad and perhaps some constructive feedback might help future repetitions of the event. Here goes:
Last night we went to a concert called "Mozart Rocks". The whole idea of this concert was to put together a symphonic orchestra with one or two electric guitars and prove rock music and symphony can coexist peacefully. Now, we already knew this to be true thanks to an "obscure" little band called Metallica and their equally obscure album, "S & M" (a.k.a. Symphony and Metallica).
Firstly, the concert should have actually been called "Mozart Rocks and so do many other composers". While they could have probably gotten away with passing Bach and Beethoven for Mozart, Vivaldi's Concerto No. 1 in E major, Op. 8, a.k.a. "Spring from the Four Seasons", was bound to give them away. Yes, yes, I know they needed a catchy title and "Mozart Rocks!" was that catchy title.
Next. It is my belief that putting 8 solo rock guitarists on the same stage all at once is a recipe for disaster. Call me crazy.
Symphonic concerts usually benefit from highly skilled, well trained sound engineers. Various parts of this concert benefited from an incessant buzzing, hissing or other type of lovely background noise. I can still hear the buzzing.
It is commonly believed that "guitarists are hot-headed punks who can't stick to the program if their lives depend on it". This seemed true for at least one of the guitarists. I don't know if he was sticking to the actual arrangement and the arrangement was bad or if it was a mild case of ADD that prevented him from playing WITH the orchestra but it didn't come out to good. If you were there I'm talking about the 3rd guy to come on stage, the one dressed like a waiter. I'm not going to name names.
Enough being mean.
I really enjoyed some of the bits and all hats really do come off to Cezar Popescu, Calin Grigoriu and Horea Crisovan, the latter featured in this video:
Altogether it was a commendable effort. You sort out my list of requests, especially the sound problem, and I just might be there again next year.
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