American Premiere for Bottleneck Barbiturate Symphonic version

For the American friends who heard Bottleneck Barbiturate with NJSO ( and everyone else, of course) feel welcome to the An Arkeology group on Facebook. Also, take a look at the YouTube video.

First concert today in Princeton with Neeme and NJSO. We started late, so before the concert we decided to not do the encore…but after the concerto, the crowd went quite wild, so, TADA! The American Premiere of Jonas Nydesjö’s version of “Bottleneck Barbiturate” was performed tonight at Richardson Auditorium in Princeton, which looks like this:

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It was a smashing success, and we’ll probably play it again tomorrow, which is at NJPAC

The NJSO is simply wonderful, plus they are very nice people to be around. Here we are rehearsing:

I have to get some…intelligence- and beauty sleep now, but I will tell more about it asap. For those of you that liked BB as we call it (the encore) you can check out those links:

The tracks on MySpace

The music on CDBaby

Playing with NJSO made me remember once when I started talking in the middle of a piece. That story was in the best classical music blog there is: The Rest is Noise by Alex Ross:

“All those who consider themselves more serious than Brahms have every right to shush their neighbors after the first movement of the D-minor Concerto.”

A follow-up to that story is that after the second movement, everyone was silent, Neeme waited…then turned slowly to me, smiling and said: “you want to say something perhaps?”

I’ll be back soon with more…

And yes, Yvonne, when you get to Barry M.…then it’s baaaad.

And oh, I almost forgot…my Beethoven website:

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