I have heard great things about last weekend’s concerts with LAGQ and guest conductor Jane Glover. Audiences responded enthusiastically to the visiting artists. Encores came from the guitar quartet and applause rained down for Ms. Glover. A nice end to the subscription series of 2004. Holiday Concerts on their way and Gospel Christmas and David Robertson’s New Year’s Bash. Then David and Orli Shaham return to begin 2005 with Dvořák and Bartók.
In the meantime, double bass auditions today. It can be excruciating to watch a musician emerge from a compact car with a double bass in tow – a sequence of physical contortions you’d expect from a Chaplin movie.
