{"id":10291,"date":"2017-01-22T11:16:58","date_gmt":"2017-01-22T16:16:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=10291"},"modified":"2017-10-12T12:20:24","modified_gmt":"2017-10-12T16:20:24","slug":"kw-symphonys-live-by-request","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/kw-symphonys-live-by-request\/","title":{"rendered":"KW Symphony&#8217;s &#8220;Live By Request&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I attended the KW Symphony&#8217;s concert &#8220;Live By Request.&#8221; It was billed as an opportunity for the audience to decide what the symphony plays. I was intrigued enough by this idea to attend.<\/p>\n<p>At each stage you got to choose between 3 selections on your cell phone. Sometimes the votes were very close and sometimes they were not close at all. Typically we chose between pieces by the same composer.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It was a combination of light classics and movie music. Interspersed with the audience choices were a few pieces we didn&#8217;t have any choice about &#8212; but these pieces were uniformly delightful.<\/p>\n<p>The symphony was joined by the Carousel Dance Company for a few pieces. I&#8217;ll mark these with a *.<\/p>\n<p>Pieces chosen by the conductor, John Morris Russell<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Dvorak &#8212; &#8220;Carnival Overture&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Offenbach &#8212; &#8220;Overture&#8221; from <strong>La vie parisienne<\/strong>*<\/li>\n<li>Gli\u00e8re &#8212; &#8220;Russian Sailor&#8217;s Dance&#8221; from <strong>The Red Poppy<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>He pretended to give us a choice for this one and when we picked something different he said this one was chosen by the &#8220;electoral college system.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Bizet &#8212; &#8220;Danse boh\u00e8me&#8221; from <strong>Carmen Suite No. 2<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Saint-Sa\u00ebns &#8212; &#8220;Bacchanele&#8221; from <strong>Samson &amp; Delilah<\/strong>*<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Pieces chosen by the audience<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Saint-Sa\u00ebns &#8212; &#8220;The Elephant&#8221; from <strong>The Carnival of the Animals<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Williams &#8212; &#8220;The Imperial March (Darth Vader&#8217;s Theme)&#8221; from <strong>The Empire Strikes Back<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Rogers &amp; Hammerstein &#8212; <strong>The Sound of Music<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>This was a medley of songs &#8212; and the audience sang along.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Sousa &#8212; The Liberty Bell\n<ul>\n<li>This march was popularized by its use as the theme for <strong>Monty Python&#8217;s Flying Circus<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Tchaikovsky &#8212; &#8220;Waltz&#8221; from <strong>Sleeping Beauty<\/strong>*\n<ul>\n<li>The dancers pretended to fight with the other dancers who were ready to perform the other waltzes we didn&#8217;t choose.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Williams &#8212; &#8220;End Credits&#8221; from <strong>Star Wars: The Force Awakens<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Rota &#8212; &#8220;Love Theme&#8221; from <strong>The Godfather<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Straus, Jr. &#8212; &#8220;Pizzicato Polka&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It was an extremely enjoyable concert. Of the pieces I didn&#8217;t know my favourite was Dvorak&#8217;s &#8220;Carnival Overture.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I previously reviewed the KW Symphony&#8217;s concert &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/kw-symphonys-edwins-final-beethoven\/\">Edwin\u2019s Final Beethoven<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I attended the KW Symphony&#8217;s concert &#8220;Live By Request.&#8221; It was billed as an opportunity for the audience to decide what the symphony plays. I was intrigued enough by this idea to attend. At each stage you got to choose between 3 selections on your cell phone. 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