{"id":20324,"date":"2013-05-19T21:30:26","date_gmt":"2013-05-19T10:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wpblog\/?p=20324"},"modified":"2013-05-19T21:30:26","modified_gmt":"2013-05-19T10:30:26","slug":"chamber-music-at-burrinja","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/?p=20324","title":{"rendered":"Chamber Music at Burrinja"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Zac&#8217;s violin teacher was playing in a concert and Kirsten and I went along to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.burrinja.org.au\/\">Burrinja<\/a> to watch. Actually I thought Zac was playing. It was only later that I learned that this was incorrect<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The show started with a small chamber orchestra. I absolutely loved this early Baroque music. They played pieces that were beautiful and simple.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/yewenyi\/8756325781\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full aligncenter\" alt=\"20130520-202918.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/20130520-202918.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Then came out the rest of the performers of the <a href=\"http:\/\/m.nicholaschamberorchestra.org\/\">Nicholas Chamber Orchestra<\/a>. I am uncertain of the relationship between the first group and the second. But the second seemed to be a superset of the first.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The first piece was Mendelssohn Violin Concerto featuring soloist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mso.com.au\/about-us\/the-orchestra\/andrew-hall\/\">Andrew Hall<\/a> (Violin, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra). I have to say that as a piece I found it slow and tedious and for much of the time too many notes for not much purpose. But Andrew Hall is probably the best violinist I have ever seen play.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">While I had been listening I watched each section of the orchestra in turn as I had done with the individual players in the small orchestra at the start. I came to the conclusion that having say, fifteen or so violins did two things. One was that it was obviously louder. But more importantly it was a chorus effect. This I suspect is one of the reasons why I think I am not keen on larger orchestras.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The next piece, the \u201cItalian Symphony\u201d also by Felix Mendelssohn, redeemed everything. I much preferred this piece of music and it was inspirational and well played. For some sections I would even withdraw my previous criticism. Which leads me to my next reason for disliking larger orchestras. I think the music lets them down. An large orchestra is quite hard to write good music for.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The final piece, Brandenburg Concerto no. 3 by J.S. Bach, was a nice piece of Bach goodness in the way that Bach is good.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">So all in all it was enlightening. I have always preferred smaller groups and that stands. But now I have a better understanding as to why.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/yewenyi\/8757459578\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full aligncenter\" alt=\"20130520-202947.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/20130520-202947.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zac&#8217;s violin teacher was playing in a concert and Kirsten and I went along to Burrinja to watch. 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