Conert #3 was breathtaking! I was feeling a bit of synesthesia thinking about the music in accordance with images. After the Feldman was introduced and described in accordance to abstract painting, I couldn’t help but picture the different sounds and orchestral tone “colors” to an image being created on a canvas. I thought this idea transferred well to the Ives piece which conjured up musical segments from a variety of genres, from Beethoven to hymns, to make a sort of aural collage that went along well with the images associated with these different musical samplings. Great playing, great concert, wow!

I was really impressed by the level of excellence at tonight’s performance! The Cage was very intriguing to see performed and the orchestra played phonomenally. However I felt a little worn out by the end of the performance because it was such a jam packed program. Any one of the works would have been enough on its own and the jarring, shocking nature of some of these pieces made for a long evening (not to mention with the set change at intermission). I just felt like it was a lot to take in for one evening, but at least I definitely got my money’s worth!

What an incredible performance! It was great to hear all those rare pieces and what a wide variety! I was really impressed with the Copland piece it sounded so full and rich with the massive orchestra behind it. The level of playing and the diversity of ensembles in this performance was intriguing and impressive!

From the incredible acting to the effects, this performance was stunning! The features on stage were magical leaving me at first wondering how certain effects were produced, but after just a little while I forgot all about the technics of the show as they ran so smoothly and got sucked into the world of the story being created before my eyes.
The different plot lines were juxtaposed perfectly and each small elements added to others to have a huge impact, like the shadow and the idea of multiple selves. While the staging was incredible, I think the intracacies of the stories coming together was the truly remarkable and “renegade” part of this show.

I was really impressed with the range of movement achieved by this performance! The movements seemed very organic in a sense that they seemed like ways the body wants to move as opposed to the rigidly placed movements of other styles of dance.
I also was interested by the way gender was portrayed in the performance. The movements of male and female dancers were nearly identical, not determined by gender like in ballet for example. And they also were costumed in some of the same garments. But it was interesting that still the performance did not ignore gender, because the groupings of males and females seemed deliberate. I wonder what kind of narrative is being achieved by this similarity and separation?

The video potentially could have added to the music, but I think in this case it was disconnected. I felt that the themes of the video were unrelated to the programmatic nature of the music, the ideas did not form a cohesive whole. So in short, the music was wonderful and the video was extraneous and just weird.

First of all, Wow! I was really blown away by the performance! It all ran so naturally.
One of the things that really struck me was the idea of language. What needs to be said? The repetition of phrases made me really think about the words themselves, what they mean, what they signify and how they changed slightly after hearing them over and over again. We hear so many words from here and there in the world, how do we filter out which ones are important? which ones having meaning? Some words in Einstein really resonated with the audience like “I feel the earth move” eliciting a laugh while the numbers blew by nearly unnoticed. This makes me curious how this concept of languages’ importance translates into society.
I went in having a number of different expectations and I left in a content and contemplative mood. It was great to take a break to enjoy art unfold slowly before me. The show was simply entrancing!