Treble on Wheels 5
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On June 27 & 28 the ESO team "Treble on Wheels" participated in the Ride to Conquer Cancer, raising over $25,000 for cancer research in Alberta. The total ride had 1742 participants and raised $6.9 Million dollars!
A few more photos can be found here.
Everyone has a story about a great concert. It's impossible to say how much burnishing is done in memory, and it doesn't matter anyway. But I tend to distrust any recollection of a famous or momentous event – Woodstock, say, or Vladimir Horowitz's last recital. History's finger seems to press a little too heavily on the scale. My own favourite concert experiences are mainly fragments, this song or that opera scene. But for many people, it's most satisfying to point to a whole event, to have that feeling of remembered fullness from one magic night, and to say, “You should have been there.”Then follows a list of fascinating stories from the likes of Anton Kuerti to Ron MacLean. Orchestras tend to put on so many shows each year, it's easy to forget that any one of them could be that magical memory for someone...
We asked musicians, artists, music mavens and committed fans to recall their favourite show and to say what rang the cosmic bell for them.
When you think of baseball, little may come to mind as to if and how there is any relationship whatsoever with making music... Besides, perhaps, the tuneful Take Me Out To The Ballgame that fans alike look forward to (or not), during the 7th inning stretch of an uneventful ball game with a soccer-like score. In my own experiences at MLB games, I usually spend more time thinking about how lonely it must be for the solitary guy in the far outfield, patiently waiting for a stitched, leather item to fall into his glove.
Recently, I came across a story of a non-baseball player who really knocked one out of the park. National Symphony Orchestra violinist Glenn Donnellan thought it would be cool to make a violin out of… wait for it… a baseball bat! Yes, that’s right, a Louisville Slugger bat. Who could of possibly known such a piece of sporting equipment could bring forth a sound as respectable to that of a baseball hitting the sweet spot. Have a listen… before long, you may just start to hear “Cracker Jack, HERE!” at orchestral concerts.
