Neat stuff!

This weekend I will be sitting on my ass watching this over 2 days:
The Fellowship of the Ring and The Two Towers on Saturday,
and the Return of the King on Sunday.

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This is one of the many rehearsal videos that the silicon valley symphony has posted.
check out their youtube channel for more!

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And a dress rehearsal video too!

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someone said it was LJ day ( Read more... )

First off it was great!
Although admittedly there were a few things that I would have changed - well, actually one major thing.

I wanted to see the music being played - that is, i wanted to see the orchestra do their thing.
I realized that there was a 3-story screen involved and that scenes from the movie would be playing during, but unfortunately, ( Read more... )

Got tix for the Jan 15 show.
I'm not going to be in town again for the other afterhour's series but the last one was so good.
This one should be really nice too.
and via Foursquare.com we got 50% off tix
(add me if you're on foursquare - i'm in san francisco right now).

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The tickets for Pink Martini and the San Francisco Symphony were announced some time ago and I don't know why I put off getting tickets.
There were much cheaper ones than the $110 seats we ended up getting but by the time we got around to getting them both shows were just about sold out. Friday nite was sold out, but Thursday only had the 2 seats ( Read more... )

So last night I drove up to San Francisco to check out the first afterhours evening put on my the SF Symphony.
My buddy Richard met me at Davies Hall and I got the car parked and my ass into the venue on time for us to get into the 2nd set of the evening.

I got the tickets from the SF Weekly. Really nice ones too, none of this back of the hall type ( Read more... )