bad news, good news?
kathrynt and I sang Mahler's 8th with the Seattle Symphony tonight. Benaroya Hall is right across the street from the shiny new Washington Mutual Tower, where they have their HQ, and we park in their parking garage. When we arrived, channel 4 had a van parked on the street outside Benaroya, I thought maybe they were doing a piece on the 10th anniversary of the symphony hall or something. But when we left tonight (right before 10 pm), channel 13 had a van there. And I turned the corner to the front of the building and called Kathryn on my cell and said. "Soo... Should I be worried that one of the local news stations has a not only a news van but an actual reporter in front of WaMu HQ when I have money in WaMu?" And she said "hm, it's right before the late news, let me call Erik and have him turn on the TV, I'll call you back." And then a few minutes later she called back and said "OK, the bad news is that you no longer have money at WaMu, the good news is that you have money at J.P. Morgan."
All in all.... yikes.
In all-around better news, though, the concert went quite well. Though I feel really really sorry for the people in the second box who suddenly had 4 trumpets and trombones show up right behind them to play some fanfare-ish stuff right at the end of both movements. And the amount of sound at the end is just... wow. About 400 people on stage, all making lots of noise... I could feel it through the soles of my feet. It's an amazing thing, and it really doesn't happen very often (I won't say once in a lifetime, but... once in a decade or more) and seriously, if you're at all interested, you SHOULD GO. All the cheap seats are gone now (I found *one* Sunday at $34, the rest are $50-70), but if you call the day of performance you can sometimes get seats that people have turned in because they can't make it.
All in all.... yikes.
In all-around better news, though, the concert went quite well. Though I feel really really sorry for the people in the second box who suddenly had 4 trumpets and trombones show up right behind them to play some fanfare-ish stuff right at the end of both movements. And the amount of sound at the end is just... wow. About 400 people on stage, all making lots of noise... I could feel it through the soles of my feet. It's an amazing thing, and it really doesn't happen very often (I won't say once in a lifetime, but... once in a decade or more) and seriously, if you're at all interested, you SHOULD GO. All the cheap seats are gone now (I found *one* Sunday at $34, the rest are $50-70), but if you call the day of performance you can sometimes get seats that people have turned in because they can't make it.