My two loves, Aaron and cake.
Every now and again it is good to get dressed up and have a night on the town :) We started the night at Ruggles, and had a delicious dinner and amazing dessert. (you are looking at a creme brulee cheesecake right there!) Then off for a night of the arts. Aaron gave me the greatest Christmas present last year - passes to the symphony! I am endlessly in love with music, and most especially any music live. Aaron isn't a huge fan of going to my weirdo indie rock shows, due to crowds and late nights in bars, and standing for hours - so symphony is much more 'our' speed. We went to Exploring Mahler 10 : Through musical examples and images, Hans Graf and Brian Newhouse of Minnesota Public Radio/American Public Media will explore Deryck Cooke's completion of Mahler’s unfinished final masterpiece. - www.houstonsymphony.org
The Mahler story is really quite interesting. At the time he began this 10th and final symphony of his career, he was going through bigtime personal struggles surrounding his beloved wife being a scandalous adulteress. But Mahler became ill and soon wasn't able to complete the piece. It wasn't until 50 years later when Deryck Cooke filled in the skeleton of work left by Mahler, and this version is what is the most popular version performed and recorded today. The piece is really remarkable, and you can just feel in the score his loneliness, and just the varying feelings of fear, reflection, etc. upon knowing the end of his life was near. It was a really great and moving performance!
So yeah, we had a pretty fun fancy date night - and we will be having part 2 next weekend to use the last of our passes to see Dvorak's Cello Concerto! "Ending the season with musical fireworks" Yay!!!
1 comment:
That is such a wonderful gift! I can't wait until I'm on a different computer so I can look that up and listen to it. Sounds beautiful.
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