Gustav Mahler’s symphony no. 9<\/a>. I got to Amagasaki a little early, so I grabbed a coffee across the street before the performance. The venue was actually pretty nice, and there were a surprising amount of people attending. The orchestra itself was quite big – more than a hundred musicians – and they sounded great. It has been a while since I’ve seen an orchestra play live, and I had forgotten how clean and clear it sounds. <\/p>\nAfter a few warm up tunes they started the symphony, which lasted about 80 minutes. There were four movements, but no breaks between the movements, so I think some people might have been a little uncomfortable. Luckily I had only one coffee before the show. As for the music, it was all over the board – slow at some points and lively at others, and it seemed like just about every instrument they could find was included. I even got to see my student do sort of a solo, which was great, since otherwise it would have been near impossible to pick his sound out of all the other instruments playing. <\/p>\n
When the show completed I headed home, but stopped in at Swaad for some curry for dinner. I barely got in – they were pretty busy in there, and there were even two Indian guys eating there. That is certainly a good sign. The cook came out and said hello to me with a smile, and as they have done in the past he gave me a free lassi to wrap up my meal. It was delicious – as usual.<\/p>\n
Now it’s time to get back to work. It’s a rainy day today, and I’m not looking forward to going out in it… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I was on my own this weekend, and as you might expect it was a very low key couple of days. Friday night after work I came home to do a TV marathon, finishing up Survivor and the Amazing Race, while eating Chinese food and drinking beer. It was a late night, but I managed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pOpl7-x3","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2049\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}