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8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, July 9 and 10, 2004
Frisbees in the air, little kids turning cartwheels on the grass, families spreading blankets for picnic dinners. It wasn’t our usual audience, but it was large – more than 10,000 total for the two evenings.
There was something special about the music too. Maestro Charles Ansbacher led the orchestra, soloists and chorus in a performance of the Ninth that surmounted the sounds of an urban summer evening – motorcycles roaring around the periphery, jets climbing away from Logan Airport, sirens, diesel horns, bicycle bells, doors slamming. Lots of Freude, lots of Götterfunken.
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Looking sharp
Pre-performance enthusiasm was running strong and spirits were high – a stark contrast to the exhausted partisan fighters in the background monument, right.
Andy rehearsed us in Providence and warmed up the whole chorus in Boston. But at showtime, he took off his tuxedo jacket, joined us on the risers and sang.
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Wer ein holdes Weib errungen
Mische seinen Jubel ein!*
Saturday’s concert happened to fall on Chas and Adele Eil’s anniversary.
A schedule conflict? Never. They simply rolled a performance of Beethoven’s Ninth into their celebration plans and made a weekend of it in Boston.
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Translation, from the second verse of Schiller’s Ode to Joy: “He who has found a goodly woman, let him join his jubilation with ours.”
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