Beethoven night

[eve_prime]

Tonight I attended the opening concert for the annual Oregon Bach Festival; this time the theme was Beethoven's first “Akademie” with music taken from a 1800 concert he promoted where he showcased some of his early work and introduced his first symphony. He put posters up around Vienna, and interested people had to go to his apartment to buy tickets from him! His actual concert lasted about four hours, whereas our event was two-plus hours of music from his event and an intermission. I went with my new friend CH, who had an extra ticket as her other friend wasn't able to go. I hadn't sat up in the balcony at the university concert hall before, and other than the excessive heat it was a pretty nice place to be; I saw several other people I knew up there too. Meanwhile, J took our friends to the sword school's "fight night" and then out to dinner at a restaurant in Springfield.