Baroque Blockbusters

i went to watch the Sf symphony perform Vivaldi's Four Seasons yesterday with my hot date - Diana! the symphony was AMAZING. thanks diana for inviting me! the conductor was Scott Yoo. at 12 he performed a violin concierto with the Boston Symphony. he was conducting WHILE playing the violin! i've never seen a violinist with such control. I even saw sarah chang play at carnegie, but i think i liked scott yoo much better. his passion and just pure enjoyment was so evident. he made all the complicated notes look so effortless. he didn't miss a beat as he was using the rest of his body movements to conduct the orchestra. the rest of the symphony was equally amazing. they played music by handel and bach as well. when they played bach's air, i could feel my heart swell up. classical music can be so moving. although i admit, i'm not a true classical music snob since i do tend to like the more popular stuff. things that you would probably hear in movies. i suspect certain pieces might have an effect on me since i associate them with the feelings i feel during romatic movies or really good weddings. sometimes i feel that since i've had so much classical music training (12 years piano and a musicology minor in college) i should know a lot more about music and be able to cite technical things about the compositions. i could cite technical things, but those aren't the things i really enjoy. when it comes down to it, music is about being able to spark emotion from sound. and as long as i can feel that emotion from a symphony, that's all i care about.

after the symphony we grabbed crepes at ti couz. we shared 1 savory and 1 sweet crepe. smoked salmon/mushroom sauce and chocolate/coffee ice cream. mmmmm.....after eating we grabbed a few drinks at ROE. it was a Drink Club nite but the scene was pretty sad. the room was barely 1/3 full and mostly guys. you know it's not a poppin bar when diana pulls out her bb to check her email. hahaha..... it was so nice to talk over dinner with diana. i feel like even though i've been home for a few months, i rarely have one on one time with my close girl friends. all of us are social butterflies and have a million and one different activities at all times. so we actually have to set dates with eachother, otherwise we wouldn't ever have one on one time. during the whole nite, we talked about everything. we need to do nites like this more often.