Sunday, March 6, 2016

Initial thoughts on Mahler's 4th

Eh.

This was my first time hearing Mahler live

Saw a performance this weekend by the Long Beach Symphony.  My first time at this venue Terrace Theater -- basically connected to Long Beach Convention Center.  We had good seats, I was expecting a full sound that I've experience in Segerstrom's, but was pretty disappointed with the acoustics (man, I sound like I have a stick up my ass...).  I had to strain to hear the harpsichord during the Bach Overture.  I would like to sit in a few different locations for upcoming performances to see if the issue is systemic.

Mahler's 4th has four movements (which btw, interesting note:  People applauded after most of the movements, something that I've never seen happen at Segerstrom.  I actually liked it.) which the last two ended quietly and serenely.  Not what I expected after reading many cases where Mahler took sound to the next level...he usually was asking music to be turned up to an eleven basically.  I can't give any technical feedback because I went into this performance blind.  I when in to experience, not to analyze.

I would like to give this another listen, but it is an hour long and it is hard to find blocks of time like that these days.  I know that many consider the 3rd movement of this pieces to be a good beginners introduction to Mahler.  I can't remember any strong feelings after the second movement, but the first was interesting.  It felt like I was all over the place, possibly many music time changes happening (¯\_()_/¯)

Lovely evening out in Long Beach.  

Monday, January 20, 2014

life views

I have approximate answers and possible beliefs and different degrees of certainty about different things, but I'm not absolutely sure about anything.

RF

Wednesday, September 18, 2013

music


Violin
Bach: partita N 3 Gavotte en rondeau

Thursday, October 25, 2012

Whats in a name

Name: Democritus
Status: Being a badass
Influence: Possible name for my future children.

Monday, April 4, 2011

Rewarding...

Probably just encountered one of the more rewarding feelings in my professional career. Nope, wasn't a raise (but those are always nice...believe you me.), I was walking by a computer where I saw someone was using my tool, css3designer.com. Some guy I didn't know, but I had to spy on him to see how he was using the site. It was very nice to come across this out in the wild.

Friday, December 17, 2010

OCD in CS

This man is brilliant. Brilliant because he is able to take computer science topics and turn them into comics...funny ones at that.



(alt text: "Not only is that terrible in general, but you just KNOW Billy's going to open the root present first, and then everyone will have to wait while the heap is rebuilt.")

His latest was gold, as always, but my OCD in CS wants me to edit his tree very badly! IF I had it my way, I'd whip that tree up in an AVL fashion. Everyone loves a self-balancing tree?! [and yes, opening presents with starting at the root would be quite desastrious]