Sadly, my last concert was the late Harnoncourt with Concentus in May last year at the Musikverein (his last in that venue)!!
I've had a friend staying with me for the last few days and she goes to concerts at Sydney Opera House with the SSO reasonably regularly. She inquired about why I never attend the SSO concerts, especially when I'm clearly a music-lover who has been to so many performances in Europe over the last few years - in the great concert halls and with the premier orchestras and conductors. Other people have expressed the same sentiments about my lack of attendance at local concerts.
But I don't really know the answer; the fact is, I'm not at all interested in the Sydney Symphony Orchestra or its programs. And, apart from significant international artists, I rarely attend anything in Sydney at all these days. Perhaps I'm just disloyal to the local talent, or bored with the conservative, repetitive fare on offer; I really don't know. The fact is, it isn't Wiener Staatsoper, Theater an der Wien, the Musikverein, Leipzig Gewandhaus, Amsterdam Concertgebouw or Philharmonie. And there's nothing I can do about that!!! All I can say is that having been to the mountain-top it's difficult to remain on the plains.
I've had a friend staying with me for the last few days and she goes to concerts at Sydney Opera House with the SSO reasonably regularly. She inquired about why I never attend the SSO concerts, especially when I'm clearly a music-lover who has been to so many performances in Europe over the last few years - in the great concert halls and with the premier orchestras and conductors. Other people have expressed the same sentiments about my lack of attendance at local concerts.
But I don't really know the answer; the fact is, I'm not at all interested in the Sydney Symphony Orchestra or its programs. And, apart from significant international artists, I rarely attend anything in Sydney at all these days. Perhaps I'm just disloyal to the local talent, or bored with the conservative, repetitive fare on offer; I really don't know. The fact is, it isn't Wiener Staatsoper, Theater an der Wien, the Musikverein, Leipzig Gewandhaus, Amsterdam Concertgebouw or Philharmonie. And there's nothing I can do about that!!! All I can say is that having been to the mountain-top it's difficult to remain on the plains.
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