The morning concert was great, the young folks of the Kremeratica Baltica played well and with spirit and with grace beyond their years. Jonathan Biss as a piano soloist was superb, the audience loved him.
Interesting reflections about concert halls, here in Austria it is mandatory that your overcoats be checked before you enter the concert hall, and they charge you .70/.80 Euro for each coat. Also, there is a 3 Euro charge for a concert program. I guess its like paying to check a bag on a plane...please US orchestras don't get this idea! And you can't say its because the programs here don't have advertising, they do!
The Vienna Philharmonic in the evening, how to say this correctly, was coldly superb. All the notes were right, there was never a misstep, they were very loud (The Salzburg Opera House is big!), but I sensed they were just there to play for the evening and then go back home, not a lot of passion in the music (then again, it was Schubert and Mozart, so passion may not have been in the minds of those guys who cranked out work after work). I kinda got the feeling that the Vienna Philharmonic is like the New York Yankees or Manchester United, you know they are good, they know they are good, but there was just something missing, at least from this American's viewpoint.
Anyway, this morning its snowing again, bigger flakes than Tuesday, and I've got to finish packing up our stuff before we get a cab to the train station and then off to Cologne. The small amounts of weather forecasting I can obtain indicate that Salzburg is on the east portion of an area that get 10 inches of snow in the next two days, lucky that we're heading north. The train station might be fun too, its being renovated and when we arrived on Sunday night that meant lots of stairs and lots of outside. Got me to reflecting about the Americans with Disabilities Act and all that, but that's for another blog!
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