Category: Music

An Evening with Brahms and Beethoven

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On Wednesday night I had the pleasure of seeing the University of Colorado orchestra perform. I have to say that even though I have lived here for almost 6 years, this was my first time seeing any of the school’s music groups perform. Not really sure why since I pretty much saw or performed in almost every concert on my undergrad campus. Anyway, on Wednesday night, the CU orchestra performed a Brahms piece I hadn’t heard before (Academic Festival Overture) and then performed Beethoven’s 9th Symphony (you know, Ode to Joy?) with many of the CU choral groups. Both pieces were fantastic and I found myself pretty much equal parts happy to be in the presence of such lovely music and sad to not be in any performing groups anymore. Maybe this weekend I’ll practice my trombone…

Any plans for this weekend? What do you think about Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony or about symphonies in general? I find it so hard to believe that Beethoven was deaf when he wrote the Ninth Symphony because it was just so wonderful to my ears. How sad that he never got to hear it…

In other news, yesterday was my sis’ birthday! Yay sister! I hope she had a good day.

Civil Wars Part 2!

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A few weeks ago, Cobalt and I got the opportunity to go to a small meet and greet for one of our favorite new bands: The Civil Wars. We got to see them in concert last year and that was pretty awesome but this was even cooler. We showed up to the record store with these bracelets Cobalt got at Record Store day and we were whisked to the back of the store where the Civil Wars performed a very small concert for us (and other people too obviously, as you can see from the pictures). By small, I mean 4 songs. But it was still neat. The sound was really good too for the inside of a record store. Then after the 4 songs, all of us braceleted people got to get in line to meet and get stuff signed by the Civil Wars. They were in a rush so we didn’t get to get pictures with them but we did get to tell them that we are using one of their songs for our first dance song at our wedding and they were pretty excited about that! :) We also got them to sign the EP of that song. Sweet!
Some pictures. Above: wrist bands. Below: Joy and John Paul singing away and then a picture of them signing things! I love Joy’s smile in the last one… Sorry about the crappiness of that picture. My Canon Powershot and I are not currently agreeing on most things picture-like.



Have you ever gotten to meet one of your favorite bands? What was it like? Cobalt was amused by how awkward and starstruck I was upon meeting the Civil Wars… It’s not like I get to meet famous people every day, geez! >_<

Underneath the water…

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Hey everyone! Hope you guys had a great 4th of July weekend! Did anyone do anything crazy? :)
Today’s picture is from the Civil Wars concert Cobalt and I went to last week! It was neat! Not only do I love their music (I sang along with every song…), but I love them! They were so cute together, singing their songs and being a little silly and flirtatious all at the same time. Cracked me up… I had a lot of fun… totally worth it to be standing for 3.5 hours…
Anyway, I highly recommend their music (not quite sure what genre they fit into… maybe AWESOME! If you are curious, click here where you can listen to/download their free EP!) as well as going to see them in concert (soooo fun). Definitely one of the best concerts I’ve been to in a while.
On an unrelated but still exciting note, Cobalt and I held a cell phone picture contest for the 4th of July. We got so many fun pictures from our friends so look forward to that come Friday…

Cell Phone Picture: Rodrigo y Gabriela Concert!

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This week I went to see the band Rodrigo y Gabriela in concert! It was amazing! We were jumping up and down and dancing by the end. I already loved their music but the concert took my love to a whole new level. For example, they played my favorite song, 11:11, and all of their energy made the live version of the song incredible. They were super awesome and fun with their amazing Mexican/Irish accents and their funny stories. I love their love of metal music mixed with traditional fun acoustic guitar music. It makes for an amazing and fun sound! Plus it was just so fascinating to watch them play (Gabriela’s fingers were moving so quickly over the strings!). Definitely an awesome experience. If you have never heard of Rodrigo y Gabriela, I highly recommend their music.