My oldest and a very dear friend and I went to see the Midsummer Mozart Festival in Berkeley tonight. The festival is the only one of its kind in North America to celebrate the wonderful Mozart. I especially liked it because the program we saw featured a ballet, two piano concerti, and two opera concert arias; all of the many facets of Mozart's creative genius.
The pianist, Seymour Lipkin, started off slow during the first half of the show on the Piano Concerto No. 23 in A Major. Or, I just don't know my Mozart that well. Because after the intermission and bass concert arias, he knocked my socks off! For Piano Concerto No. 25 in C Major, his fingers skipped along the keys and my head bopped right along with them. He has been playing piano for a long time and wow, his hands can fly across those keys!
The bass singer, Jeremy Galyon, also blew me away. He had some funny hand gestures but, I have only seen one opera and he could have been performing as if he were in the operas, instead of on a stage surrounded by an orchestra.
At any rate, the beautiful music reminded me how much symphony soothes the soul and truly was enjoyable after so many days of confusion and turmoil.
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