Monday, October 06, 2008

We enjoyed the luxuries of the student rush ticket yesterday when we only had to pay $5 apiece to sit in fancy $60+ seats at Boettcher Hall to hear Lukas Vondráček play with the Colorado Symphony. The program was a crowd pleaser from start to finish, and Marin Alsop was back on the podium to conduct. (She's conductor laureate of the CSO but music director for the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra.) First was Wagner's Prelude to the Meistersinger, then Dvorak Symphony No. 5, which may be less familiar than other Dvorak symphonies but is wonderful to hear performed live. After the break, Vondracek played Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1, with its familiar opening melody. Through the three movements, he played with energy, at times making the piano shake, but then also had great restraint and control with the pianissimos.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

When I call the CSO box office I am always told they don't have student rush tickets. How did you get them?

Delicatessen said...

Hmm, interesting. I have to admit, it was a surprise to get one. But this is what happened. We showed up about 5 minutes before show time. While standing in the ticket line, an usher asked if we had a student ID and sent us to a separate line, where everyone was getting $5 tickets. They didn't ask where you wanted to sit, they just gave you a ticket. And 3 of us ended up in Orchestra 2.