...because I've just found out that the NSO is going to be performing one of the greatest pieces of music ever written: Mahler's 2nd Symphony. I used to be an usher at Boston Symphony Hall, and the Boston University Symphony Orchestra had a performance of Mahler 2 there a night I was working.
I had heard the beginning of the first movement in an orchestration class I took that semester, and was interested in hearing it, so I watched and listened through the space between a set of doors close to the stage. During the final movement, it got to a point where the doors I was listening through were actually shaking from the orchestra's sheer power. This was when I realized that most metal bands have nothing on the sonic power of a large orchestra, and it was greatly inspiring to me.
I have a recording of this symphony, and it's one of my favorite things to listen to, ever...and I find that I always want to turn it up loud when I listen to it. I'm listening to part of it right now, and I decided I should google and see if there are any performances happening this year, in places that aren't hard to get to...well, DC's easy enough, and I won't have to pay for a hotel or anything, since my parents live near there.
Tickets go on sale in about 2 weeks, you can bet I'll be buying one or two.
I can not fucking wait
