So, last week, I went to see the Moscow State Radio Symphony Orchestra at the Van Wezel in Sarasota.
The tickets were fabulous — Row Six — so kind of front and center and the crowd was overflowing with lots of Russian conversation. Oh, and the symphony wasn’t half bad either. The violin solo was Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto, and the soloist was a woman who just went to town on that violin. The pianist was also just a kid — Alexander Sinchuk — who, everyone’s saying, is going to mature into the kind of performer who develops one of those reputations that has people saying, “Yeah, I saw him when he was just a kid.”
Then, after, martinis — with pizza, no less — at Broadway.
All in all, a fun way to spend a Wednesday night.
*photo courtesy of Van Wezel