Day 1172: Piano recital
Jun. 5th, 2023 11:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eve_primeToday I went to a surprise concert. Rather, the concert wasn’t a surprise, except to me – I didn’t know about it until this afternoon. J and DG were coordinating who would need a ride home from playing Magic this evening, and NJ said he wouldn’t be joining them as his roommate was doing her final doctoral recital. She’s a pianist and just his roommate, not his partner. They’re both from South America, but I don’t know if they knew each other before coming to the UO for grad school, as they’re from opposite ends of the continent. Anyway, NJ knows I often like classical music, and he invited me to the recital. There were about 25 of us in the audience, including a pianist at the university whom I know and also including the composer of the fourth piece on the program.
Our pianist was named Camila Osses. She played a piece by Arvo Pärt that I quite liked called “Für Aline: Variations for the Healing of Arinuskha; one by Amy Beach that I was fairly indifferent to, and one by Clara Schumann that I liked the most of all, “Variations on a Theme by Robert Schumann.” We had a brief intermission, during which NJ came over to say hello to me. Then she played the piece by the local composer, which wasn’t my style, then a fairly long piece by Janáček that I also didn’t feel much interest in, although it was the kind of thing that I figured if I heard it multiple times I’d probably come to like it well enough. The last piece was called “Dance Patterns,” and it was a work by Steve Reich that involved Camila and another pianist (in fact, that composer), and two people playing xylophone, and two playing vibraphone. It was just rhythms rather than any obvious melody, but after they’d been playing a while I realized that I was rather attached to it and would just as soon they kept going a bunch longer, and that when they did stop I would miss it. And I did.
Our pianist was named Camila Osses. She played a piece by Arvo Pärt that I quite liked called “Für Aline: Variations for the Healing of Arinuskha; one by Amy Beach that I was fairly indifferent to, and one by Clara Schumann that I liked the most of all, “Variations on a Theme by Robert Schumann.” We had a brief intermission, during which NJ came over to say hello to me. Then she played the piece by the local composer, which wasn’t my style, then a fairly long piece by Janáček that I also didn’t feel much interest in, although it was the kind of thing that I figured if I heard it multiple times I’d probably come to like it well enough. The last piece was called “Dance Patterns,” and it was a work by Steve Reich that involved Camila and another pianist (in fact, that composer), and two people playing xylophone, and two playing vibraphone. It was just rhythms rather than any obvious melody, but after they’d been playing a while I realized that I was rather attached to it and would just as soon they kept going a bunch longer, and that when they did stop I would miss it. And I did.
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