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| Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra |
The Travelling Toe and friends attended the last Sunday matinee performance of the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra for this season
The program was opened with a contemporary piece, "Rainbow Body", composed by Christopher Theofanidis, who was in attendance for this performance. He was very gregarious interacting with Miguel Harth-Bedoya explaining his piece of working being performed. Mr. Theofanidis is a professor at Yale University and is a native Texas. The piece is based on various chants that he discovered and fascinated him. During the playing of the music, the strings take on the sounds of vocal chants and sometimes the bassoons play low, long sounds that are reminiscent of Buddhist chants. It was lovely and uplifting music to hear.
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| Christopher Theofanidis |
The guest performer for the program was the suave and very accomplished pianist, Barry Douglas. His selection for the program was Sergei Rachmaninoff's Piano concerto No 2. It was a lovely rendition being soft and lyrical and then going full force at other times. The Travelling Toe must admit that the Rach 2 is one of her very favorites - as is Mr. Douglas. His performance was very well received by the audience members with a prolonged standing O. Was somewhat disappointed that he did nor provide a small encore as he has done in his past performances at the Bass, but perhaps a plane ride was waiting for him to jet him to his next commitment.
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| Sergei Rachmaninoff |
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| Barry Douglas |
The ending piece was written by Mexican composer Silvestre Revueltas. The music was originally written for a movie but eventually it was put into concert form and works quite well in that format. It uses a huge variety of percussion instruments plus one of the brass musician plays a conch shell. It was a lively and enjoyable section of music that The Travelling Toe and the rest of the audience totally enjoyed.
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| Silvestre Revueltas |
This was a great program to close the 2014-2015 concert season.
Additionally, Maestro Harth-Bedoya was celebrating his 15th year with the symphony and we, as audience members, received the gift of more music...a free CD recorded by the orchestra. Wow....how nice is that!!
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| Maestro Miguel Harth-Bedoya |
Fort Worth is very blessed to have this orchestra and music director in our city!
Forth Worth Symphony Orchestra
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