NJSO

You might get the idea reading this blog that all we do in the winter is go to classical music concerts.  While that is one of the reasons we are here over the winter, we do have other activities, but not anything that is usually worth blogging about.  I do have a quilt almost finished that I will post when it is done.  But today's post is again about an NJSO concert at NJPAC.  We heard

• Handel - Suite No 2 from Water Music
• Beethoven - Piano Concerto No 1, with fantastic pianist Robert Levin
• Mendelssohn - Symphony No 5 "Reformation"

And one other piece.  Robert Levin requested snippets of music from audience members, then chose three and did an amazing improvisation using them.  It was quite a treat.

Then after the concert we heard a jam session of Irish and Scottish music led by a fiddler who masquerades as an NJSO violinist and including other musicians as well.