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The Atlanta Symphony Youth Orchestra’s Winter Concert Sunday will include a performance of Ravel’s Bolero.
A sensuous exploration of the orchestral palette, Bolero’s silky and exotic themes are heard first in tender solos then gain girth as more instruments pile on. To a steady, pulsating rhythm “the obsessive repetition builds tension to an overwhelming climax.” (ASYO Program Notes.) Most famously used as get-it-on music in 10 with Dudley Moore and Bo Dereck, Bolero has long been the pseudo-intellectual alternative to Marvin Gaye, Barry White or Lorne Green's On the Ponderosa.
The Atlanta Symphony Youth Orchestra consists of 120 members all of high school age.
If you go, try not to look too long at the clarinetist as she moistens her reed. (Or the bassoonist who takes two at a time.)
posted by Brian Bannon @ 11:09 AM
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3 Comments:
Very funny. I read this all the time, really I do. Sometimes I just don't feel smart enough to respond.
But when I'm inspired, boy oh boy, look out. ... I'm, uh, ...not--you know, inspired--right now.
Thanks, but don't feel obligated. I'm used to quiet. I like to think the austere silence gives my "comedy" an existential quality. Sometimes I can almost hear Sartre saying "this sucks."
BTW I'm enjoying your bursts of fiction on your site. Hope there's more to come.
HA! Bursts of fiction. That's a good way to describe it, alright.
It just happens sometimes.
Thanks! Gotta get that stuff up and out so the funny can make some room for itself.
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