One Serious Concert at a Time.

This past weekend, my family enjoyed the fabulous and amazing concert at Dallas Symphony. A Russian pianist, Kirill Gerstein performed Rachmaninoff No. 3 impeccably with Dallas Symphony on Saturday night for us all to be immersed in a few hours of heaven. My senses are always touched deeply when I think of the political environment during which time the composer had composed the piece of music, and his love for the country. If you google Rachmaninoff Concerto No.3, you will likely hear the familiar tune with the wave like beginning. Dallas Symphony and Kirill Gerstein communicated with each other throughout the performance and we were able to witness the merging of the entire members of the symphony with the pianist. It was simply a phenomenal experience to be in the hall and to enjoy the beautiful, excitement, elegant, and convincing music that is revived again and again. I so marvel at the fact that many of us are able to enjoy the music that composers from years past wrote down with pen and paper (before the time of technology). Rachmaninoff is definitely one of our favorite composers in the world along with Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Liszt, or Brahms.

Here you can see Erik excited so much that he was pretending like a conductor at the Dallas Symphony Gift Shop.......before the concert.  We were with some special friends who also love MUSIC. The beautiful company made our experiecce at Dallas Symphony this past weekend extremely memorable. Erik knew that this was a part of his Christmas Gift and he was delighted, ,, purely delighted. He said on our way back that he wished that he could hear music like that every month at a major symphony but he was not sure how our bank account will hold up. I told him, we will take one thing at at time, and one serious concert at a time.We look forward our next Symphony Experience, wherever that may be.

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